Advantages And Disadvantages Of Women In Congo

They were not allowed to work in factories or allowed own a business. They were discriminated of their rights to work. They were not allowed to join a war legally and could not own property. Women had no rights politically or economically. However, a positive for women was that they took men’s jobs during the civil war. Increasing their pay and showing men that they could work also. They took men’s jobs in factories and held business. They helped their side of the Civil War greatly and contributed by healing their men. They worked very hard to help keep soldiers healthy and to allow them to keep fighting. Working hards in men’s places, women helped the army stay in good

In the world today, women have a say in what they want to do and things that they desire to do. Back in the day, before the 1800’s, women had to be submissive to their male counterparts and do according to what was required of them. In the end, this led to the demeaning of the woman and the concept that women were inferior to men. Even though this concept and perception changed, there have been some countries and regions of the world that have not yet recognized the equality that women deserve. Such areas do not allow women to vote, attend school, have a say in the community, and the women are at the mercy of their husbands, fathers or male superiors (Hartmann, Susan M).

Over a hundred years ago, one event created chaos among gender roles and here are some of the initial factors of how rights for women started as a predicament which later began to evolve into a much larger problem that involved many people around the nations. Over the course of history, many issues had change the world to what it has become today. Many problems led to social, economic, and other changes. One small event is able to cause more obstacles, which eventually leads to larger complications. Even though society had tried to resolve these issues, they still encountered many hardships that were disruptive to their own perspectives as also for other people within the community. Thus, this was an important issue because it had changed

However, the contributions of women to the economy have gone unrecognized and unvalued. Also, there is unequal opportunities between men and women in the workforce, which means that women do not receive an opportunity at demonstrating their ability to lift themselves from poverty and similar issues, and their options to improve their lives are limited or nonexistent. However, I feel that what men do not realize when oppressing women is that women make up half of the world's population. This ultimately means that women also make up half the workforce. A nation that limits women and discriminates against them cannot reach it's full potential or productiveness. On the other hand, if a country's government, businesses, and overall, the communities invest in women, developing countries are less likely to be striken by poverty. Women are educated to wisely manage the money that they earn, which results in less poverty because they will know how to save and spend her money properly. To add on, economic empowered women raise healthier and better educated children, which results in children that will continue to manage money wisely, with their mother's guidance, and ultimately this would lead to a decrease in poverty. Economic empowerment means not only reducing

Throughout time women and their rights have varied among where they are living and the people that surround them. Some of the major changes with women’s rights is giving them the right to vote, reproductive rights, and the right to work for equal pay. Another thing that varies throughout time is women’s roles. For example 100 years ago the only jobs that women could have was to either be a housewife, nurse, or a teacher. Until about 1910, women didn’t really fight for their rights and what they could do. In 1910, women started to voice their opinions in society and fought for the right to vote. Though things have changed greatly today, there are still women in the world that believe in the “traditional way” and prefer to still wait on

Women could now bring an extra income to poor households. And this also helped the middle class grow, and less poverty to exist in the world

Independence could either be the uprising of a new and better maintained country or the uprising of a very deadly war. Kenya and Congo were very alike in terms of how they got to become independent, but how they handled it was the difference. Just like Congo and Kenya many other countries have their differences and similarities. For example, Congo had a much more violent approach to the situation unlike Kenya. Congo took everything very offensive, which is why the there was much tension between the colonies and the African countries. Kenya tried to fix their problem by not ignoring the important things and realizing that things can be fixed.

Throughout my years as an explorer, I have been to many different countries. I have also come in contact with many people and learned about many different cultures. In most of the cities I have been to, although the type of government system may vary, the one thing that tends to stay the the same throughout these societies are the role of women and how they are treated in the everyday world. Like in my most recent trip to Mexico, I had the opportunity to observe that the role of women was extremely different from the role of men.

Women are sometimes more nurturing than some men when it comes to taking care of their family members or children. When a woman becomes pregnant they receive a maternity leave which also puts a hold on their income, making it easier for the man of the household to have a higher paying job (Joan Acker, 1989). Another example, when a child of a family gets sick most of the time the woman is the one to leave work early and stay home with the child. Some job sites have paid maternity leave but then many do not. Women have greater recourse to part-time work so they can combine work and family responsibilities (Joan Acker, 1989). During the older days, women were not allowed to enter professions such as medicine or law, married women had no property rights, they were not allowed to vote, married women were not even present in the eyes of the law. From then to now a lot has changed but women still are not

All throughout history, women have been thought of to be “weaker” and “not as capable” as men have always been thought to be. Due to this, gender roles were

They were regarded as objects to give birth and take care of the family affairs including performing the farm work. They were subjects of their husbands. This was the origin of the patriarchal society in this continent. Africa has been dominated by male folk for since 1500 (Bonnie, 559). This domineering habit has brought with it other characters such as polygamy and society leadership by men only. This left woman without any significance in the political and economic development of the African society. Their place was in kitchen only. Men were the only leaders in the village, county and national level. There was no single women leader. It was regarded as a bad omen for a woman to participate in any political affair. Women had no voice in the society; they could not question the decisions of their husbands or their male grown up

Prior to colonization, women were builders, warriors, farmers and craftswomen. A woman was in charge of gathering materials and building homes. They also made tools and weapons that her husband would use for hunting. Women were well known for their craft work, played a significant role in healing and had the responsibility for taking care of religious items. Their strength was what allowed the tribes to survive. Although women did not have traditional political power, they did have the right to divorce and if her husband did not meet her needs, he could find himself homeless. On the contrary, colonial women were expected to help the men in physical labor tasks so that her family could survive. As time progressed, colonial women took on traditional roles which consisted of house and farm work and raising her children. The men now dominated the women and he chose how many children they would have. She did not have the right to vote and her belongings also belonged to her husband.

Little Richard once said "I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband." Women have always been foreshadowed by men. The women are always put down because of hypocritical stereotypes. The women's suffrage movement changed the United States in a positive manner to where the U.S. made an upgrade financially, socially, and politically. According to the Women's Suffrage movement, economic roles increased in society, women entered male dominated professions, and helped during the civil war. Women will always be an aid to the world.

The preconceived notions made up of women by men, held back the opportunity for them to become advanced in what they would like to accomplish.Women had a harder time gaining a simple chance for employment, education, and having the right to keep their job if they got married or pregnant, in addition working hours were

Although they have been given more rights and equality, women still lack fairness in areas such as education, domestic abuse, crime, and lower class value. Cassandra Clifford states in her article “Are Girls still marginalized? Discrimination and Gender Inequality in Today’s Society”, “Woman and girls are abused by their husbands and fathers, young girls are exploited by sex tourism and trafficking, girls in many countries are forced into arranged marriages at early ages. Twice as many women are illiterate as men, due to the large gap in education, and girls are still less likely to get jobs and excel in the work place than boys.” She describes some of the issues that women face today around the world. These issues are what keep society from coming together to form a better world.