at night or the terror that strikes her when she receives an obscene telephone call. She knows also of the “minirapes”; the pinch in the crowded bus, the wolf whistle from a passing car or the stare of a man looking at her bust during a conversation. Moreover, if she is raped the man will almost always escape prosecution and the woman will be made to feel responsible because she was somehow “asking for it.” What kind of changes do we need to improve woman’s position in today’s world and make Ana feels as home in the engineering class? Probably, many women recognize that they must make their own way in the world, that they must develop their own identity rather than acquire that identity through a relationship with a man. Today woman after woman are creating and detailing their plans for becoming a full-respected person, able to survive on their own, becoming equal with a man. Woman and the society also need to gain more voices, more opinions, more competition in science, in entertainment, in sport, and everyday life. They definitely deserve full respect and attention as colleagues, as mothers or lovers. I believe as long as man, like a ruler, does not realize woman’s importance in everyday life, she will not get a real chance to prosper or to be at least equal to him....
