Discrimination Against Women 's Rights

“Government statistics in South Sudan show half the girls there aged 15 to 19 are married, with some brides as young as 12 years old.” Many girls in countries such as South Sudan and Trinidad are married off at a young age and later face abuse from their husbands. Many of these cases go unnoticed, unpunished and numerous girls die because of birth complications. Zora Neale Hurston’s novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, emphasizes the issue of marriage rights and household equality that affect real people in countries such as the United States, South Sudan and Trinidad.

There is no hierarchy of needs but sex discrimination would not be prioritized by Black women because of the silence of the women’s right movement on the issue of race . hooks (2002) argued that the understanding central to modern feminist thinking is that all women are oppressed which implies that all women are oppressed to the same degree, within the sole do-main of their gender. This understanding assumes that all women have common shared experi-ence to oppression based on social spheres such as race, class, sexual orientation and as a result it fails to conceive the disparate levels to which sexism is a part of institutionalized systems of domination that does not solely determine the fate or experiences of all women. When consider-ation

Has New York City discriminated against minorities and females for almost a half a century? The local 1180 of the Communications Workers of America believe so and have convinced the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to suggest the City of New York pay a quarter of a billion dollars to its affected employees in back pay and damages. In her article EEOC: New York City Owes Underpaid Minority Female Employees $246 Million. Erin Durkin of the New York Daily News City Hall Bureau exclaims “In its decision issued Monday, the EEOC said there was evidence the city discriminated against minority women who work as administrative managers — and it could be on the hook for up to $246 million in back pay and damages.” (Durkin) Although there

Throughout history, the role of woman significantly changed. Since the 1800’s, American woman who are housewives have changed from household eye candy to breadwinners. In earlier days, women were seen as women who were intended to cook, clean, and take care of the children. They were not allowed to vote while men could. The rise of feminism changed the role women plays in society forever. Feminism is the encouragement of women's rights on the grounds of political, social, and economic equality to men. Woman voiced one’s opinion which helped them get equal rights. In the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, she explored how women were not treated equally and the oppression of a woman by her husband was vastly common in the 1800’s. Gilman was also able to show how a woman was able to break out of the oppression of her husband with slow increments of change. In the play “A Doll House” by Henrik Ibsen, he explored how woman are not able to do all the things a man could and women were supposed to sit at home at the house looking like a pristine doll for one’s husband in the 1800’s. Ibsen also explored how a woman is also capable of taking care of herself and

The Middle East is known for its natural beauty and majestic architecture. Aside from the breathtaking scenery the Middle East offers, people from the Middle East live restrictively in contrast from the people’s lives in the Western countries. In countries such as Egypt, Iran, and Israel, people face constant fear of violence from wars, gender equality and women’s rights are ignored, and the people face poverty. Gender equality and women’s rights in Middle Eastern countries are nowhere to be seen. For instance, in Egypt, killing infant girls because the parents want a boy, is very popular. The murderer of unwanted infant girls is a growing problem in Egypt. But since women are considered inferior to men and also less wanted than men, people

Since day one, women have been discriminated against. Women in different workplaces and even women in the military “often” experience the feeling of unequalness and hostility. In her article, A Base Hospital Is Not A Coney Island Dance Hall, Kimberly Jensen says “ From our early twentieth- first- century vantage point, there is abundant evidence that women in the military face hostile workplace environment” ( 206). Payment differences, why people choose to discriminate and how the government is or is not involved should not be an issue in the United States or anywhere in the world. The Government should gradually become involved in gender discrimination against women in the workplace; by doing this, the situation will soon positively affect

Women have faced many obstacles in their struggle to gain their rights all around the world and the biggest difficulties are the social and cultural factors, and some aspects of law. To start with the legal obstacles that deprives women of simple rights without any rational explanation. This fact is only found in our Arabian societies. For example, women who marry a foreigner in our country cannot pass on their nationality to their children, whereas men in that situation can. Another obstacle that increases the discrimination is the cultural and social restrictions. In most Arabian countries women are free to choose what to wear, and can choose their jobs and education. And the law does not require them to wear any particular form of clothing.

The laws discriminating against men warrant the same level of constitutional protection as laws discriminating against women because the courts should be able to apply the same standards to both sexes in cases of discrimination. The term gender is broad and as society becomes more aware of the gender spectrum and not just male and female, the courts must be prepared to handle cases and properly execute protection against gender discrimination.

From the beginning of time the male and female have been expected to perform certain roles in society. Males have been expected to work and provide for their family while the female raises the children, cooks, cleans and keeps the house in order. Today many women have broken that tradition and are starting their careers and becoming more independent. Even though females today are braking away from that stereotype, they are being discriminated in the work place because there are still individuals out there that believe that women should play a certain role and that they are not strong enough to work in a cooperation or

Growing up in the Middle East as a woman having an education was the least of importance. A lot of young women faced transitioning to adults at an early age. More than a quarter of girls are married before the age of 14 where they were forced to become young adults (Elizabeth, 2010). There has been several cases of these young women dying during child-birth, which is not unusual in the Middle East. Young girls would be as young as 9 years old with a husband of at least 80 years old (Elizabeth, 2010). As an American girl I can never imagines sending my little girl off to be married to a man who can possibly be my age. At 9 years old, the child is still growing and learning it is way too early to become an adult before it is their time. Then, to think of my baby having a baby and at high risk of dying because their body is still developing is very sadden. However, in the Middle East they view this as normal and have a different perception to this matter

From the societies to the justice system, the world is not perfect. On the scale of perfection, the Middle East is far from. Considering the fact that it is the 21st century, a “modern” era, the world lacks basic human equality such as gender equality. Although in many countries in the world, women have achieved a great level of equality and freedom, in the Middle East in particular, women lack political and social equality, and basic human rights such as proper education and health. A form of gender inequality in the Middle East is socially. Men and women are not raised equally, women are not supported to work in the public domain but rather to become housewives. The Arab society encourages the concept of guardianship. This concept gives men

The country, Croatia, is where the focused group is located. Croatia is located in southeastern central Europe, and has a population of over four million. Croatia wasn’t considered an independent country until 1991. It was under control by different powers throughout history including “the Hungarians, the Turks, and the Austro-Hungarian Hapsburg dynasty” (“Croats”). Croatia was a part of groupings when having an upper ruling, and this was part of Croatia’s history before becoming an independent country because of the Croats; people that settled in the region that eventually became Croatia. They were part of the nation Yugoslavia which were a monarchy and then a communist country. Another group

In 1776, when our great nation was founded, future President Thomas Jefferson stated three inalienable rights that every human must be ensured: “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”. These three pivotal rights have been brought to attention in many sociopolitical debates throughout our history, such as the women’s suffrage movement in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s. These movements, not to mention other similar movements, have inspired serious legislative action; for example, the 13th Amendment outlawing slavery, and the 19th Amendment allowing women to vote. Not only has the law ensured equal protection for all over the years, but in the Constitution, we have been assured of freedom of speech and opinion. In the America of 2017, this poses another serious question: Are Americans adequately respecting each other’s right to an opinion? Despite the law ensuring our equal right to have an opinion or believe a certain ideology, many Americans, both verbally and physically, are attacking this invaluable right that every American deserves.

Women’s rights, as defined by the Global Fund for Women, is “the right to live free from violence, slavery, and discrimination; to be educated; to own property; to vote; and to earn a fair and equal wage,” and in our country, there have been many instances of the violation of these rights, such as sexual harassment, gender discrimination, misogyny. These acts can even be seen at different points in the timeline of the Philippine history, be it in the past decades, or at present. Hence, the purpose of this paper is to compare women’s rights violations in the Philippines in the context of both the present, and the time of Martial Law.

Early marriage of girls negatively affects health wellbeing among young women. In Sub-Saharan Africa, spiritual appeasement is among key reasons attributed to early marriage. In fact, girls/young women are usually sacrificed to the ancestral spirit world (Sithole, 2007). (40) Mbiti (1999) and Bediako (1997) explain that in African faith practice, females are generally viewed as having a higher connectivity to the spirit world than males. For this reason, female children are the preferred ‘spiritual sacrifices’ because of their biological ability to reproduce children that will promote generational continuity to the ancestral spirits. This notion may explain why a girl child, and not a boy, is traditionally the choice for appeasing the spirits. Whether the motive to encourage early marriage is cultural or spiritual or anywhere in between, it remains a fact that the practice contributes to reduced health status for women as their bodies are oftren not physiologically ready for childbearing leading to complications at child birth. A report on child and early marriage showed that 38% of young women were married before reaching the age of 18, which make them more likely to stop their education, become more vulnerable to physical and sexual abuse, to death during pregnancy and delivery, to delivering unhealthy children, and would most certainly remain caged in poverty. (41) All this chaos is protected in Sudan by the “Personal Status Muslim Act of 1991”