The Role of the Woman in the Albanian Family

Abstract

One of the main problems that contemporary societies face today is the uncertain role of the woman and the man. Women have an important role in the development of the society and culture. They also have a great impact in the development and improvement of the human race due to the close relationship and impact on the children during their upbringing. Women, the Albanian women in specific, used to be discriminated and suppressed because of various conditions of the time. After the fall of the communist regime the Albanian woman needed a lot of support, not only morally but even institutionally. There was a need for collective initiatives of feminist organizations so that women could have some of the rights which she had been unfairly prevented from. “Feminism is the struggle to protect and improve women’s rights”(Giddens,A Fq14 )

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2013.v4n10p25