... were implemented regarding the development of the Third World countries (Wayleen, 1993). But development issue always remained a question. Modernisation did not take place in the ways that literature on modernisation stated. It became evident that inequality in society increased. Furthermore, research on the status of women in the developing countries shows that their subordinate position increased in society within the patriarchal power structure. The following sections illustrate the way women were more subordinated within the existing patriarchal power structure. The paper also analyses the view of the liberal feminism in this regard and its oppositions. However, at the very outset of this analysis this paper tries to define modernisation, development and patriarchy. Patriarchy, Modernisation and Development Patriarchy refers to male domination and female subordination in economy, society and culture. The sexual division of labour in family is the reflection of patriarchy that confines women within domestic labour. Lim (1997) argues ...

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