Woman Between Islam and Western Society
3. Western Woman
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more then 25 women under-secretaries in the
various government departments or ministries.
• Women have also broken into the front ranks of
the media, with Connie Chung holding a prized
anchor position on the evening news for one of the
three major commercial television networks and
scores more women in the position of network
reporters, and even more women anchoring and
reporting for local news stations, not to mention
hosting some of the most popular talk and variety
shows.
• In 1989, a survey of ‘Fortune 500’ companies
found that women made up 12.7 percent of
corporate board membership, up from a single digit
figure in 1970. And, businesses owned by women
soared in the decade 1977-1978, from 7.1 to 30
percent of all business.
• In education, where women have historically
lagged behind men, especially in post-secondary
education, over the decade from 1970 to 1990
women’s achievements converged with and in
some cases surpassed men. From 1966 to 1987, the
percentage of female high school graduates who
