Women 's Rights Of Women

Women’s rights in America in late 1800’s women’s right to vote women in medicine and the equal rights for women are the 3 main points that were big in the 1800’s.

People were not only discriminated due to their race but some of their gender, which affected their political rights in a multitude of ways. To illustrate, one of the Colonies most unspoken laws, dating from Ancient Greece to 1920, is that women have no right to vote and that only the gentry could contribute in political matters according to the Governor. Additionally, a law from Great Britain in stated that if a landowning woman is to marry, she must sign a document stating she is giving her property to the husband. However, in the case of Anne Cart, a wealthy indigo farmer who was engaged, she testified to a jury that the land was worth more under her ownership and she won the right to own it. Another example is that 97% of court cases involving dark magic is directed towards women accused of witchcraft and found that 78% of the women are convicted and hung. This shows that in the 16th century, people thought women were generally inferior to men and treated them as such politically.

I The history of women’s rights is significant today because without the women having their rights, America wouldn’t be as developed as it it.

Although woman had many duties at home, church and in community, they had almost not political or legal rights. Women were seen as dependents of men and without any power. They were often thought just props that enhanced the social status of her husband by making him appear as a trustworthy family man to his community. By the 1840s a great amount of people began fighting for women’s right to be first class citizens. After the fifteenth amendment was passed in 1870 allowing African American men to vote, women felt it excluded them and were disappointed that others were giving the right to vote before them. American women began a movement to gain more power as women and American citizens. The nineteenth amendment is a turning point in history because it granted women the power to vote by prohibiting any United States citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex (PBS).

Occasionally to be heard, it takes more than one voice and the bigger the number, the stronger the message. When thinking of what a feminist advocates for people tend to think on the small scale; pay gap, equal opportunities, protecting rights. On a larger scale, globally the issues increase by ten folds. The issues, feminist focus on in the United States are miniscule compared to the genital mutilation and the normalizing of rape that goes on across the globe. These women’s organizations are working wonders,fighting to protect the rights of women, and provide safety; Isis International and The African Women’s Development and Communication Network. Providing women with better opportunities and giving them, strength is what these organizations

Women today cannot function outside the home. If women truly want suffrage, then they have to demand equality across all fields of life. Suffrage alone will not solve Women’s Rights issues, being allowed to live the life they desire will. Currently women are not equal to men in any place. My top venues to insist equality in are the law, workplace, and home. The traditional life of the American woman is oppressive.

Throughout very early American life, the roles of women were to promptly overcome the pressure to marry, and strictly uphold the standards of homemaking and motherhood. Women eventually began to diverge from the traditional roles of their previous female ancestors when tension became the norm with common experience in love, marriage, religion, independence, and family relations.

Not so long ago in our history, women had to struggle just to be able to attain jobs that once were only available to men, and the practice of law in particular was forbidden territory for women. Before the 1870s, women were seen as timid and "delicate creatures, and just like children and lunatics, lacked full legal rights" (Vago, 362). While women have made great strides in the working world and are now able to occupy positions formerly attainable only by men, there are still striking discrepancies in the pay received by the two genders. However, women lawyers are still reporting high levels of job satisfaction.

In this paper, I will be talking about how women in today’s society have more rights now, than they have ever had. We are still not to the point where we should be, and where women are as equal as men, but we are much closer than we were in 1861. Through out the last 150 or so years, there have been many changes in women’s rights. Women can now vote, own property, initiate divorce, and get an equal education as men. To many people, slaves were slaves and nothing more. They were property and they were told they didn’t deserve any rights to their freedom. What many people don’t think about is how women in slavery were treated, compared to the men in captivity. A few things women in slavery were subjected to; the workload compared to men, relations between the women and their masters, and what happened to their children.

In past years women have been inferior to men and have sat in the background and watched as men ruled. Woman we’re treated as property and were only used for things like having children, raising the children, keeping the house clean, to cook, and to obey all of the wishes of a man. The only women that men highly respected were the goddesses, like the goddess Artemis, Hera, and Eris. The men would pray to the goddess for the things they don’t have in there life. From the day a girl is born she is property, she is owned by her father at first and then her husband. Women weren’t expected and in most cases aloud to go out and make their own money, they are even aloud to own a house or sue someone. The roles of women back then were final and it was a struggle for them to even exist, sometimes even women being seen was unheard of. A mans opinion was the only opinion that matter at that time, men determined what was right and what was wrong, what was socially acceptable, and what women were and weren’t aloud to do. Men had separate rooms from the women and children that they would take company into and talk with them because they believed that women didn’t need to hear what they were talking about because they were uneducated and didn’t have the right to have an opinion. Men even decided what women did for an occupation. They chose this the women were going to be a house wife or a prostitute. Women were treated no better then a domestic slave and they struggled trying to become

The women’s movement in Iran is well-known as a dynamic, powerful movement within a state under various levels of Islamic regimes. Beginning from the constitutional period from 1905-1911, women began to mobilize and organized acts of defiance such as boycotts, riots, and protests. Despite the numerous odds against them, including not being classified as “citizens” equal under the constitution, women’s movements in Iran grew steadily over the early 1900’s. Women’s organizations produced scholarly publications discussing women’s rights and arguing for representation (Mahdi 429). The Pahlavi period from 1925 to 1979 brought about a vastly different environment in Iran. Iranian women made considerable progress in areas such as education, parliamentary representation and family law. While the number of women in high-level governmental positions was the highest in history, women were still subject to a patriarchal political world. The Iranian Revolution of 1979 shifted the dictatorship from a Western to Islamic influenced regime. Ayatollah Khomeini reversed much women’s rights legislation and suspended the Family Protection Law. Women were barred from working in the public sector save education and nursing. Socially, Islamic dress and the veil was strictly, and at times, violently enforced. Sharia law dominated, and women’s movements seemed destitute in the face of an Islamic state. Any attempt at rebellion was strictly pushed down. Yet while many consider the women’s movement

Despite improvements in the rights of women in the contemporary world, modernity has created systems in which women are prevented from achieving equality. One of the most popular influences in today’s society is the media. Female objectification in media has damagingly grown with the emergence of modernity. Unquestionably, this is an important sociological issue to address. Often in the modern world, the ideology of feminism is considered unnecessary. However, in spite of technological development, female objectification remains normalized in today’s culture. It is incorporated into our society so significantly, that we do not even notice the objectification that permeates the media (Cortese, 2008). Female objectification in advertising is

Many women around the world today do not have the same rights as women do in America. A country that has truly had a rough timeline is Iran. Women are looked down at and aren’t thought have true humans but as objects a lot of the time. Women are looked down at, and are expected to just do the house chores and what is expected of women, raising the kids. Today in day, that is not the case in the US, but in Iran it is still a hard and difficult situation. In the year 1979, the women were required to start wearing the Hijab everywhere. This really downgraded women, to the point where even activists were stopped through cruel punishments such as, imprisonment or even the cruel act of torture. In Iran, the women are often physically abused by their husbands when they don’t follow the rules of the religion or government, leaving women below them and having to follow as they please. In a lot of situations women are seen as sex objects and then the caretaker of the males children and are supposed to make them grow up to fullfill the family name.

The social justice that I have identified and decided to describe is the ‘Women’s rights’. Women’s rights cover a wide range of issues that protect women. They are the justifications and prerogatives that are universally granted to women and girls. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language describes these rights as “socioeconomic, political, and legal rights for women equal or equivalent to those of men”.1 This issue was brought to the world’s attention when some activists looked for ways to attain equality for women by becoming defiant to biased labor customs and inequitable laws. They availed women with informative resources, launched political groups and wrote books and articles defying sexism in society. This matter

In the past 50 years, society have not only made leaps and bounds in science, but also gender equalities. As more and more women are entering the work force,one have to ask - why are there so few women active in the major fields of science? Are they being under supported? Underrepresented? The short answer - yes. But does it really mater? In truth, it does matter that women are being underrepresented in STEM fields because not only are we suppressing the current population in STEM fields, we are also discouraging future potentials from ever joining.