From mother-goddess to the pandora s box: Glass ceiling myth

Abstract

The article is correlated to elements of the mother-goddess figure having been changed by a patriarchal cultural system, which has suppressed the positive features of the mother goddess role by strengthening the Pandora’s Box myth throughout the centuries, and to the more recent gender-based division of labour and elements of the glass ceiling. Primarily in the article, the features of mother-goddesses existing in Greek, Anatolian, and Turkish myths from ancient ages until today are explained by correlating them to role of women in social life. Later on the article, addresses the glass ceiling syndrome which applies to women within a gender-based division of labour under patriarchal (masculine) rule is discussed. In the conclusion, a criticism is made of gender based-division of labour, masculine rule, and the glass ceiling factor. © 2013 European Journal of Research on Education by IASSR.