Why, she wondered, did it help women to learn that they lived as second-class citizens in a male-dominated culture?

"It was a male-dominated culture, and the guys weren't doing a good job."

Women in largely patriarchal cultures who have gained economic independence from their families go against their male-dominated culture.

In her work, French asserted that women's oppression is an intrinsic part of the male-dominated global culture.

Afghanistan has always had a male-dominated culture, but many women in the cities had escaped the restraints.

In a go-along, get-along male-dominated culture, women may have to change their tactics, some experts suggest.

She left one male-dominated culture for another, she said, in the hope of finding new strength along the way.

And they sent you, a woman, to a male-dominated culture.

In trying to bring some democracy to Iraq, we are not just challenging the dictatorial-tribal political order here, but the male-dominated culture as well.

"In a male-dominated political culture, I was allowed into the forecourt of power," she said.