Royal Female Pharaohs

Do you think that being “equal” to someone actually means that you have the same amount of power. Females like, Cleopatra VII and Hatshepsut, should be considered for titles, such as “pharaohs”, because they have ruled equal to, or maybe even better than, male pharaohs in the past. The term “pharaoh” is an important title, especially in ancient egypt, a pharaoh’s job was to protect their empire from anything that would negatively impact it and the people living there, “Pharaoh was required to officiate in the temples, to rule in the law courts, and to fight off any enemies—either foreigners or criminals—who might disrupt the status quo.” “Pharaoh” is a word meant to be equal for both men and women, nowhere does it state that pharaohs have

Since there were many “queens” that title did not have much value and they were not considered very important in this civilization. Most of the royal women just prefered to not mention their titles because it did not have much value to begin with, “However, the majority of Egyptian royal women remained anonymous. Even when royal women were awarded a more prominent role or particular iconography to distinguish them from others, their titles were bound to the king.” Cleopatra and Hatshepsut were two female pharaohs. The way they came into power was because they were the last resort, but they both ruled consistent and properly. Hatshepsut was selected to become pharaoh after she was the queen and beared royal children, “Following the death of Thutmose I, Hatshepsut became consort and “God's Wife of Amun” to her half brother, Thutmose II. She bore a daughter, Neferure, but not a son, and so, when Thutmose II died, the throne passed to the infant Thutmose III, a son born to the harem queen Isis. As the new king needed an experienced queen to help him reign, Hatshepsut stepped forward and assumed the title “Mistress of the Two Lands.” Then, some time before her stepson's Regnal Year 7, Hatshepsut was crowned pharaoh.” Now that Hatshepsut was pharaoh, many people would judge the way that she ruled because she was a female, she needed to be taken as seriously as a man would in order to rule effectively, “Hatshepsut now needed to present herself as a traditional pharaoh. We don’t know how she dressed in real life, but her earlier images and statuary show her either as a conventional woman or as a woman wearing king's clothing, while her later art shows her as a stereotypical king with a male body dressed in male clothing. Her monumental texts are less consistent, and she alternates between the feminine and masculine forms of her titulary.” Hatshepsut had