The Status Of The Czech Republic And Hungary

For many years women have been forced with unequal and oppressive “community” by men. This article highlights the reason as to why women were oppressed and why “gender Blindness” exists and how it only occurs due to manipulation of women’s daily lives (Hayden, P). In this text she references government documents such as the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. She highlights the fact that Gender Blindness has been occurring way before 1979 and still persists.

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).

The extension of women’s rights from 1877 to the mid 1970s, has changed over time along with the ideals of the different eras. From the original traditional values to those wild and free spirits that dominated the culture in the seventies, since then women and their rights have changed.

Women have historically had a rocky relationship with governmental, cultural, religious, and social rights. The Women’s Rights movement has been in effect since approximately 1792, with the publication of the first feminist work, “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, by British writer Mary Wollstonecraft” (“Women’s Rights Movement”). While social changes have occurred and more progressive laws have been put into place throughout the years, there is still not equality between the sexes. Additionally, gender roles in different countries differ greatly. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the major causes and concerns of the Women’s Rights movements throughout the decades, as well as denote the differences between more progressive societies and their less accepting counterparts.

Throughout history, we can see that humans have developed quickly in almost all fields including advancements politically, scientifically, and morally. However, one of the greatest advancement, which to this day has not been fully achieved by humanity as a whole, is the equality between the two genders. Since the beginning of civilization, we come to see that all societies with an exception of a few, were mainly male dominated. Men were always seen as superior to women. Men were not just seen as the head of the household, but they were seen as the leaders and organizers of all political, social, and economic affairs for both men and women. However, as time progressed, so did women. Gradually, women were more involved in the work force due to many factors including wars and primarily due to the industrial revolution. Women took the role of nurses and hospitality workers during wars, and as the industrial revolution initiated, they began to work in factories for low pay. During the last half of the 20th century, women’s rights, referring to the social and human rights of women, became a very highly emphasized and recognized issue especially in the United States. By the 1960’s the role of women completely transformed. Women more than ever before, began to enter the paid work force, participated in protests demanding equal rights, and established organizations such as the National Organization for Women. Overtime, these feminist trends of the 1960’s that continued for the

In the beginning of early societies, women’s rights were excluded from the big picture, and through the Women’s suffrage act an initiation of movements by feminist activists was created for a fairer life. Although the beginning of time has vanquished from a condemned society and societies have currently advanced this is the reason why attitudes need to become advanced just as well. Since feminism was a powerfully growing figure in the nineteenth century because of the popularity of the idea there were establishments made containing feminist beliefs such as the National Organization for Women and Women’s Equity Action League. Furthermore, these groups and others devotedly pushed for

Slavenka Drakulic, a highly respected journalist and commentator on culture in Croatia, published the book How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed in 1991, which was a collection of essays that comprised of the stories of many women’s lives throughout Eastern Europe that lived in a communist society. Drakulic wanted to capture women’s stories and share them with others, because these were women who suffered from carried the biggest burden of life, living at the bottom tier of their society. As Drakulic states in the book’s introduction, Trivial is Political: “It was the relationships between political authority and the trivia of daily living, this view from below interested me most. And who should I find down there, most removed from the seats of political power, but women. Even if they fully participated in revolutionary events, they were less active and less visible in the aftermath of those events” (xv). I feel Slavenka Drakulic also wanted to express to others through these women’s stories just how impenetrable and distressing attempting to adapt to living in a non-communism society is when you have known nothing but communism. This struggle could be applicable to any society changing from one political ideology to another, and Slavenka Drakulic’s ability to communicate these women’s stories can inflict a large sense of empathy for these women who fought so hard every day against the political ideas ingrained in their minds, so that they may have a chance at

During the long nineteenth century, political revolutions, industrialization, and European imperialism resulted in dramatic changes in the role of women in Western Europe and Eastern Asia. As industrialization spread in Western Europe, women were no longer able to fulfill their dual role as a mother and a worker. After the introduction of industrialization, laborious tasks were moved from the household to factories and women were forced to choose either the life of a mother or the life of a worker. Women who chose to leave their households were subjected to harsh conditions, low wages, and long hours. The majority of married and middle-class women were confined to the home, and deprived of an education and civil rights. Unlike the

In most communities, women are viewed as the threads that knight the society together. They are the source of life and are treated with respect and highly valued. However, this was not the case in ancient empires. The rights for women have been a constant struggle that has come to be standardized in the twenty first century. Despite this, some societies especially in the less developed countries continue to deny women their basic human rights.

While women were highly encourage to work outside the home, and take part in political issues, it did not changed attitudes about women as primary caretakers of children and the home. The Soviet government needed women to work, but it did not aimed to change traditional roles of women in the household. Jancar, notes that when women moved into new job areas, the men moved out, and the new areas became associated with “woman’s place.” Despite the fact that, women in the Soviet Union were essential for economic growth, gender distinctions prevailed within traditional female

As the outbreak of WWI (World War I), the world was under a huge changing period regarding technologies, ideologies and civilizations. Impacts were inevitable from war, thousands of sacrifices, ruined families, and even the fall of countries. However, it is undisputed that the WWI changed the women 's historical process, particularly in European countries. Women 's employment scale was largely over prewar level; their status and position in wartime and postwar evoked a dispute. On one hand, the WWI brought the women unprecedented massive scale of employment that used to be unthinkable for them in the wartime; however, on the contrary, the war led to a rare proper sense of citizenship for women. This essay aims to take an analysis on how and what did the WWI made the impact on women in the former European countries. Firstly, it will focus on employments situations for women in wartime, how they react to these changes and the negative dissatisfactory after they urged more rights. Secondly, it will take some cases of European countries as examples to illustrate that though there were an increasing number of feminist movements and women began to fight for their political rights the frustrations and definition from the society’s conservative prevented women into the public sphere.

The Bourgeoisie would be skeptical of the Communist lifestyle because they assumed that meant women would be common property. Marx pointed out that the Bourgeoisie already exploited their wives as an instrument as production, meaning they would use their wives as collateral in order to get ahead themselves. Husbands would lend their wives to their bosses in an attempt of improving their own statuses. The Proletariats treated their wives as a mean for production as well, because they worked all day and needed to produce children in order to keep their households afloat. Women were denied

Over the course of history, gender inequalities have been a prevalent issue amongst countries around the world. The notion, women are inferior to men has shaped their treatment in all aspects of life. Women were subjected to a patriarchal role in society, the men worked and women took care of domestics to some degree greater or lesser depending the country they resided in. In the late 19th and early 20th century women started rising up against male dominated societies in feminist movements. These movements were campaigns and reform plans to combat issues of equal pay, sexual violence, and denial of suffrage, reproductive rights, equal job opportunities and property rights. Thus observing women in Great Britain and Saudi Arabia today one can see how the role women play in society has dramatically changed from 1800s till now.

As far as the politics is concerned, during the Depression period, the percentage of female members of Communist Party considerably rose. Women were fighting for the social justice for the working class and stood against fascism. The female leader of the party – Mary Inman accused male ideologues of failing to “recognize women’s special oppression and urged them to fight

After women’s participation in the October Revolution, Vladimir Lenin gave women social rights through the liberation women by allowing them to work in male-dominated areas of jobs. During World War II, women in the USSR were advantageous because they were able to provide labor while the men were absent serving their nation through combat (WHKMLA). Lenin and the Bolsheviks recognized the positive impact women had during the war and decided that women participating in the October Revolution was the key for the revolution to be successful (Z, Minkin). After seeing the power the women had during the successful revolution, Lenin decided to liberate the women by offering them new jobs, such as being engineers and doctors (Wolanski). Because of the