EASY ACHIEVE QUESTION PLEASE HELP DUE RN ASAP
This Article would be most useful as a source for a student research project on __________.
A.impressive women in ancient societies
B.ancient Egyptian art and building projects
C.female leadership in modern societies
D.ancient Egyptian military conquests
ARTICLE:
Have you ever heard of the "glass ceiling"? It's not a newfangled architectural idea involving a building with see-through ceilings. It's actually a metaphor for a barrier, especially one affecting women and minorities, that can impede them on the path to reaching their full potential. The "glass" makes new and exciting opportunities on higher levels visible, but it can also block them, making them difficult to attain.
The glass ceiling isn't just a 21st century dilemma; people have been trying to shatter it for thousands of years.
In fact, the glass ceiling was already in place when Hatshepsut became pharaoh in ancient Egypt, where she ruled from about 1479 to 1458 BCE. Hatshepsut was one of only a select few women to ascend to power and be named pharaoh in ancient Egypt. Why were there so few women pharaohs? In ancient Egypt, it was customary for pharaohs to be men, and the throne was almost always inherited by sons from their fathers, so if a pharaoh had a son and a daughter, he'd be much more likely to pick the son as his heir.
So how did Hatshepsut become a pharaoh in what was decidedly a man's world? When her husband, pharaoh Thutmose II, died, her stepson, who would be Thutmose III, was too young to take over for him, so Hatshepsut decided to govern as pharaoh herself. To help people get accustomed to having a female pharaoh, Hatshepsut tried to give herself a more "masculine" image; some images and statues show her with a sinewy figure and a beard.
But Hatshepsut's plan to help people feel comfortable didn't work—at least, not as well as she had hoped. She was nearly expunged from history not long after her rule, when statues of her were smashed and images of her were chiseled away. Thutmose III was the prime suspect, even though historians believe that Hatshepsut only stepped in as pharaoh to preserve the throne for him until he was old enough to rule.
It's known that during Hatshepsut's reign the economy flourished, the military was successful, a great deal of art was produced, and many grand buildings were erected. But if that's the case, then what would have been Thutmose III's motive for erasing her legacy? Some scholars believe he may have been angry that Hatshepsut had done too good a job, and that he was therefore afraid he couldn't live up to her legacy.
But it's clear that Thutmose III didn't obliterate evidence of Hatshepsut's reign, because numerous artifacts pointing to her accomplishments were discovered in the 19th century.
There's an inscription on one of Hatshepsut's monuments that reads, "Now my heart turns this way and that, as I think what the people will say—those who shall see my monuments in years to come, and who shall speak of what I have done."
And indeed, Hatshepsut's legacy lives on.