Imagine a woman whose ex boyfriend has forced her to drink acid because he has found out she is in an arranged marriage to marry another man. These are problems that women in India are always trying to avoid on a daily basis. For decades women in India have fought to have rights that protect them from the social injustice that overruns the country, slowly women have gotten more rights and laws to protect them but, there is still more to be done. It is not often that these issues are mentioned by those living in countries such as America because in other countries we often do not understand the complexities of these problems. In India, for years women have not had the rights they deserve, from inequality of basic rights, rights in the workforce, or more major rights such as protection against rape and sexual harassment. Women in India have tried for years to get equal rights, in the beginning they had some success but as time went on it slowed down. India gained its independence on August 15th of 1974, first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru wanted to unite the country and everyone in it. In the beginning it looked as if women’s rights were going to take off but as time went on the drive for women’s rights slowed down. In his first few years as prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru was able to give women the right to inherit property, divorce their husbands, vote, and run for office. It was not until 196, nearing the end of his term, that the Dowry Prohibition Act was put into
Reviews the amendments of the 1868 Indian Act, highlighting the conflicts of superiority of rights to Indian men over women. Discusses the avoidance of violence and discrimination against women within communities and the need for an equal relationship between genders
Another supported claim that attributes to this idea of inequality and gender relations is the insights from three indigenous scholars living in India, which I had the privilege of looking in depth to their encounters. They were able to infer that female fetuses are often at times killed off and men are always subject to be the dominant figures in societal practices. They have provided insights that advancement in technology has provided a way that women wouldn’t be treated like valueless customers, but rather provide population control incentives such as nation-state prosperity. (Dube, R., Dube, R., & Bhatnagar) This will be a future planning strategy that might undermine well with the current situation of this issue at hand today.
Equal rights for women has been in an ongoing conversation throughout America, especially when it comes to the workforce. Equal pay and opportunity has been fought for, for many years. But can the workforce really be equal if the women do not do their part to strive and stay in work? In Sheryl Sandberg's Ted Talk “Why We Have Too Few Women Leaders” she discusses the topic of how women can rise to the top and become leaders in the world by staying in their line of work. She explains that although equality for women has progressed, leadership positions often lack female occupants. (Sandberg, 2010, page 12) She backs her statements using logos as she goes farther into detail by sharing statistical data. Sandberg gives three fairly simple
The culture in India has changed dramatically throughout the history of India. Women who were once put on pedestals, worshipped for their ‘Motherly” ways. Now they have a status that hardly holds them above the fine line, a line that decides if you hold your basic human rights or not. Women are a trade in this country. Young women, who are taking the foremost brunt of this brutality, are forced into marriages to uphold status in a community, raped, and stripped of their rights, this including education. With no respect for women in this country, it is easy to see how men would think that a women is a commodity, not a person.
Finally, after many years of protests, conventions, and facing much adversity, women got to vote for the very first time today on November 1,1872. Although our votes did not count, we got to exercise our rights as citizens of the United States of America. We showed everyone, who is against us that women do matter, and that we do deserve the right to vote like any other man. I can proudly say I was a part of the small group of women who got to vote today for the very first time. We have made monumental progress, and this is a major victory for women everywhere.
As I consider the experience of women in slavery, I believe they had a less difficult time than enslaved men because in the narratives of the former slaves, Charity Anderson (Mobile, Alabama) and Tempe Herndon Durham (Durham, North Carolina), they portray the scenes that men had a harder time during the slavery rather than the enslaved women.
In India, there are many groups who affect the human race either gender like women by many aspects of sexism and violence. This means that there are reasons for sexism in India. Moreover, There is specific research on sexism mostly in favour of men over women. We find that in India there are many social issues of violence against women. The constitution of India has granted men and women equal rights, gender disparity still remains. Gender discrimination violates is a fundamental right so this human right is given to all human in the world from baby to adult not only for men but also for all women.
Women today face numerous obstacles, but not as many obstacles as women in past years who have paved the way for today’s women. These women fought for the right to vote, to own property, to hold public office, and even rights to their own bodies. It is hard to imagine a time when a woman got married, she gave up all control to any property to her husband. Countless women lived for a long time without having a voice of their own. There were several pioneers involved in the women’s rights movement, each moving women one step closer to equality. These women voiced their concerns over unfair treatment and stood up for change. Today women are still fighting for some of the same causes such as equal treatment and equal pay. For many reasons I believe we still have a way to go for women to have equal rights in America.
Feminism has always, and continues to be a heavy topic in literature. The status of women in the world has continued to change due to the fight for the equal rights of women. Even today there are still some issues involving the rights of women, some places more so than others. Ama Ata Aidoo, an author in African literature, was born into royalty in Ghana which provided her with a clear significance of African customs (Horne 48). She illustrates in “Two Sisters” how the inequality of genders affected women in Ghana, from inequality in employment to inequality in gender roles. She uses the lives of two sisters, Mercy and Connie, to explain the inherent senselessness in the foolish choices that women make to prosper in a male privileged society that thrives on capitalism (Aidoo 994). Because women in Ghana did not have the equal rights that men did, they had to do what they felt would bring them happiness and security.
Twenty –first century ladies are discovering it a daunting task to keep up both sexual orientation parts as an aftereffect of the women 's activist development. They are presently assuming liability for both the supplier and the nurturer, battling like never before to acquire and keep a superior personal satisfaction. Woman 's rights has supported in equivalent vocation opportunity, battling to get ladies acknowledged into the employment advertise, and what initially began as ladies strengthening transformed into ladies ensnarement, straightforwardly bringing about the quantity of females living in neediness lopsidedly to the quantity of men. Ladies rights activists used to criticism social structures that advanced careerism, are currently encouraging ladies to "incline in". "Ladies don 't have a place in 12-hour-a-day official positions" (Kay Ebling 170), a lady 's regular organic outline is tyke bearing, and despite the fact that she can go work a 12 hour movement doesn 't mean she ought to have the superfluous commitment to do as such. As the neediness rate amongst single parent family units rises, the nature of living, for example, sustenance, health awareness and instruction for her youngsters starts to exhaust. When low wage has been built up, it is gone down from era to era sustaining the cycle.
This September is the 20th anniversary of a speech made by former US Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton. In the speech, Clinton made the famous remark, “Women’s rights are human rights”. Since the speech, focus on gender equality has increased, especially in the workplace. Yet, some industries, like private equity, continue to have problem in attracting women.
In 2008, post the major changes in law in Nepal, which mandated that at least 33% of electoral Candidates overall were to be women, the country became the first in Asia to pass the 30% mark for women parliamentarians. Women won 197 (32.8%) of 601 seats. But it had taken a great deal of work, activism, training and lobbying.UNIFEM, in partnership with the National Commission for Women and local NGOs, boosted efforts that contributed to this historic representation of women. With support from the German government, Nepal‟s Making Politics Work with Women program supported capacity building of female and male members of the Constituent Assembly, and continuous advocacy with various subcommittees for the inclusion of gender and women‟s rights concerns within the draft Constitution. Partnerships with the UN Democracy Fund program focused on capacity-building of women candidates for office, and elected leaders, and for the training of media on gender issues, and civic education to promote women‟s participation in constitutional reform. The strategy advocated for quotas for women at all levels of government. A consensus was built with women‟s groups, political parties, civil society, and government ministries on a new draft Constitution incorporating gender equality considerations. The program publicized women‟s contribution to political and peace processes through advocacy tools, including a documentary on Women’s Role on Peace and Politics and radio jingles. Informational,
In today’s society women may have their full rights, but they are still not respected. They have more say so in their lives, but men overpower them with their leadership and hard-working techniques. In the Crucible women had a routine role. They were forced to go to church, cook, and clean for the house and family. Women also experienced beatings from the man in the house. The difference in women in the 1950s and the women in the crucible, is that many of the roles stay the same. Not much has really changed for the role of women. Only certain circumstances women had to face were the challenging part of being the woman.
Even if we were to look outside of the workforce spectrum, women are treated unequally on the basis of property. Even though women have equal right to own and receive land, it is not a practiced in the culture of India. When looking at the society as a whole only men are ever seen and given the rights of land so they can carry on their family name. Majority of the inequality does not have to do with laws or policies but what has been engraved into the society. Till now many of the people in India are still raised with that same mentality that men have a higher authority than women do. For this reason alone the Indian society is to blame for the inequality that occurs to women. However like Mirchandani points out an author by the name of Carla Freeman whom shares her notes “...that women’s jobs are both a source of pride and pleasure, and simultaneously a source of stress and dissatisfaction.” Also ends up pointing out “working women reassess and remake their identities and communities in important ways for social life.” Even though sometimes these identities are not linked with good outcomes but getting past that they lean towards making the status of the family very positive.
Feminism has been a topic of large debate over the last century or so. Lots of progress has been made in favor of women, and I for one am very pleased about that. I am a firm believer in equality for both men and women in all aspects of life, not just in the workforce or daily social norms. I was raised by a single mother along with a brother and two sisters. My mother did everything when were too young to contribute. She did everything from paying bills, cooking, providing housing, to cleaning. Seeing my mother do all of those things really engrained the fact that women are just as equal as men. I agree with Dorment’s assertion that “In the end, isn 't this what