1. The Empire of Male’s Fear Sevda Alkan

3. Judith Syndrome

4. Judith Syndrome
If Shakespeare had a sister?

5. Theory
Concept:
Women’s empowerment has come a long way and improved a lot over the last decade. However, there are still many challenges confronting women’s equality in terms of gender fairness and women’s socio-economic empowerment.
Theory:
If women don’t reach economic independence, they will always struggle for equality of opportunity in the society. Their main challenges are to break the barriers constructed and imposed by the patriarchal structures.
Women would over come this dilemma through education. However, that would not be enough by itself without changing men’s mental representation toward women.

6. Quotations from readings

7. Approaches to Construct The Empire of Male’s Fear Theory
Current approach: Essentialism
Women as group lack of skill
The men perception, women are emotional and can not make logical decisions
They don’t speak assertively
Suffer from prejudices and biases beliefs that prevent them to speak effectively on their own behalf
Women communicate in particular ways because they are women
The desirable approach: Constructionism
Gender may give equality of opportunity
Gender exists not in persons but in interactions
Gender as a system of Power Relations

8. Gender Mainstream
Development of initiatives that enable women and men-shoulder to shoulder- to formulate and express their views and to participate in decision-making process that could intervene in violence or women social issues.
Women and men have different access to power and resources
Gender equality has not been adopted
Patriarchal structures are perpetuated in the political and economic institutions, as well as in gender situations.
Women should be identified and supported for potential leadership roles.

9. Reasons of Inequality of Power
Male dominance in patriarchal societies.
Women are not as capable as men to reach the high standards in society.
Not access to higher positions
Not enough range of women political settings
Power inequality
Socio-economic
The sectorial segregation measure shows that women are more limited in their choice of employment across sectors.
Sectorial segregation increased over time with women moving out of agriculture in developing economies and out of industry and into services in developed economies.

10. Consequences of Economic inequality on women
According to American Psychological Association (APA), low social economic status impact women’s lives in several dimensions:
Psychologically:
Living below the poverty line is one of the main causes for women to have depression and other mental health disorders.
Women in low social economic status more likely to report domestic violence.
Limitations in socio –economic cause also women to return an abusive relationships.

11. Physically
Low-income women with no insurance have the risk of the breast cancer among women aged
Low- income women also experience postpartum anemia a condition which has been linked to depression.
Obesity: economic depravation may contribute obesity because reducing the access of healthy food

12. Implementations
Policies to reduce gender gaps can significantly improve economic growth and standards of living, and in developing countries can be a major contribution to poverty reduction”
Encourage women to pursue higher educations in order to get better jobs and better positions in their field
Men’s mental representation should change because
There is distrust among the women
They think that men is the figure of power; therefore, the negative image of women should be eliminated