The Roles of Women in the Social Studies Curriculum at the Preparatory (Intermediate) Stage in Egypt and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia "An Evaluation Study"

Abstract
The study aimed at evaluating the social studies curriculum at the preparatory stage in Egypt and KSA to identify the extent of the availability of women's roles with its objectives and content. To achieve this, the researcher prepared a list of women's roles including: social, political, economic, historical and religious and Professional roles and women's rights and issues. The aims and content of the curriculum were analyzed using the paragraph and the picture as units of the analysis. The results of analyzing the first two units of the Egyptian curriculum revealed that women's rights and issues came first and the political role came second. In the third rank came the social roles, and the fourth rank was the historical and religious roles. The professional roles were in the fifth rank and the economic roles were the sixth. As for the curriculum in KSA, the rights and issues of women came in the first rank, and the historical and religious roles came second.  In the third place were the social roles, and the fourth rank was for the political and the professional roles since they came equal in frequency. The fifth rank was for the economic roles without any frequencies. The results also indicated that there were no statistically significant differences between the percentages of frequencies of women's roles in the social studies curriculum in Egypt and the KSA. Generally, the results indicated that the social studies curriculum was poor in its aims and content regarding the roles of women.