Arne Fronsdal

Woman's suffering since the dawn of times Arne Fronsdal

In the beginning, they both shared everything from the time they lived in caves. The men and women built their homes, they went hunting together and found the necessary raw materials in the forests that could keep them alive and thrive. A pregnant woman would in the early childhood of the child stay at home to breastfeed their of springs, but after a few months, just as the animals share the burden of looking after their newborns, women and men changed from staying at home and hunting. As civilization forged ahead and the nomads began living in smaller villages, the women would sometimes stay home, nursing their gardens, fruit trees and animals while the men would travel for their hunting expeditions. Gradually, their moral codes evolved and were engraved into stones such as the Ten Commandments of Moses. The primitive societies had better equality than in the more advanced cultures. The men gradually acquired post-dominance. Women were handed down as children by their father to their husband; they were legally, financially and physically subject to the power of men for a thousand years. Until recently, men had the right to kill a wife who was only suspected of being adultery - this rule still exists in some cultures today. The men reigned according to their philosophical, political and economic designs.