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In my generation at least, education beforethe war, young girls were trained to LISTEN,to be POLITE, not to contradict and to believethat what men said was more importantthan what THEY could say.1

It takes time to get over such instilledself-consciousjess and self-depreciation.

Besides our latin countries carry boththe weights of Roman Tradition and of Catholicism religion which deeply influenced ourlitterature, our philosophy and our be haviours.Everyone agreed on onepout : the subordinaterole of women.

PERICLES, who gave his name to the mostbrillant century in Greek civilization, the Vthbefore Christ, said: The greatest honourfor a wmnwomen is not to be spoken of".

And 20cis later, JJ Rousseau, one ofour most famous writers and specialist of children's educ.education morever, still held the same viewsand expressed the with almost the same words:

The dignity of a wmnwomen is to stay unknown. Her onlyglory lies in her husband's esteem and her family'sservice. God created her to bear man's sin justice and toserve him."

Between the 2, youone finds St Pl, the most famousmisogynist of the Christian world, a fieldwhere there is much competition, and alsowrote:

A woman shldshould alwysalways carry a veil onher face as a token of submissiveness. She should notbe abled to talk in the presence of men; No in Church".