Women's Rights Of Equality And Equality Rights

In the 1800s women were looked upon as second-class citizens, depriving them the right to vote, run for office, to become educated or even to have any type of profession. After women were married they were not allowed to own their own property, wages/income, or sign contracts. After decades of intense political activities and rallies women were granted the right to vote in the year 1920. Women decided to take a stand as one and fight for equality amongst men and women, even if it meant dying for women in the future to one day cast a vote or run in the election.

Women have always been treated as second class citizens in the United States, they have battled for equal treatment and equal rights. Although women have more rights than they used to, there is still much progress to be made. There is a clear discrimination against women to this day; there’s a disadvantage when it comes to the workplace, they get paid less than men and are less likely to have authority positions. To self-identify as a feminist is very stigmatized, it has been difficult to move away from the negative connotations the term has. Feminists are made out to be men-hating lesbians, however, feminism is about equal treatment and even men can self-identify as such. As a woman of color I identify with Bell Hooks, FEMINISM IS FOR EVERYBODY Passionate Politics. Women of color needed feminism that was more inclusive and that advocated for the rights of ALL women, and not just white women. Women are objectified and are a reflection of a patriarchal society.

In education, many subjects are taught. The core subjects include English, Science, and Math. Math is commonly known. But, it was not always. Schools have made math easy to access and learn. Early in history, it was uncommon for a woman to attend school. How did they learn math? one may ask. The answer is they usually did not. For years women had to fight for rights. Women were denied civil, economic, political, cultural, and social rights. In 1792, a major leap in women’s writes occurred. A book written by Mary Wollstonecraft called A Vindication of The Rights of Women. This book was a declaration of women’s rights to civil equality and education equality. This book aroused the question “Why are women not allowed to education?”.

Throughout time war has been predominantly fought by men, because the idea was that women should stay home and tend to the house and the children. Few women have made a name for themselves in history, fighting in war alongside men. The most notable woman in history that broke all the gender rules of ancient time was Joan of Arc. Joan fought for Charles VII, to take back France from the English. In the end she was captured by the English and burned at the stake. Joan is the most notable women in ancient history to fight in war. Fast forward to the year 2015 in the United States of America, a new fight has been started to open the door for women to fight alongside their male counter-parts in the field of combat. Questions have been raised on

In present society, to deem women inferior to men is highly unconstitutional, according to western culture. Before the feminism movement, women were castrated opportunistically just as colored persons were in the 1ate 18th and early 19th century. Socially, educationally, and politically, women and people of color were accepted as inferior. Feminists emphasize that the main cause of female inferiority are a set of unofficial rules and formal laws which hinder women’s ability to succeed in the world. Isolated from places such as preparatory school, conference meetings, the marketplace, and operating rooms, women cannot and will not reach their full potential. Women will not become synonymously free or equal with men until society grants women the same opportunities as men. Then and only then will women become men’s fully equal part. Mary Wollstonecraft, in A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1798), argued that women’s place in society was derived of lack of educational opportunity and social boundaries, as opposed to inferior rational or moral powers (Wolff, “Chapter 5”, 175). Wollstonecraft proposes that that heart of the argument is masculine biased dictation for western traditional ethics constrain opportunity for women. A feministic point of view would suggest, to grant equal educational, political, and social opportunity to women and to men alike. Consequently, no gender should be allowed greater opportunity. Equality is the best policy, as it will grant more

Women have been the main characters in different stories; however, in some of the works women have been included in they are not shown as they are in reality, and the characteristics that make women strong, beautiful, and intelligent. In the following works, Ourika by Claire de Duras, How We Survived Communism & Even Laughed by Slavenka Drakulic, and Things Fell Apart by Chinua Achebe, the reader can see that the characters in these stories who are women are seen as minority, people judged by society, people who do not deserve the same rights as men, and they are seen as minority compared to anyone else. Women have fought for the rights ever since, women have shown how powerful and fearless they can be. In today’s society even though is

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

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.

Through out American history there has been an endless struggle for women. Traditionally, women were to stay at home, which was respectable at the time: clean the house, make the meals, and watch the children. However, as women began to venture out of the house, they discovered that they were being neglected of what men had. This included the right to vote, a variety of jobs, the social stature, and the moral freedom that many men experienced. Although there were some women who had already developed themselves outside of the house, such as some women writers and the even more rare ones who had gone to college, the majority of women were heavily reliant on their husbands and had easily felt the discrimination. From the 1800’s to the 1920’s, some of the first women’s right activist groups made themselves known, and had even accomplished in some of their endeavours. However, it was not until the 1920’s that the U.S truly began to see the changes in society due to women’s rights activists. The 1920’s was a defining time for women’s rights, one in which women became more independent ultimately changing their role in society.

Maria Bochkareva was a woman in the USSR who joined the army and fought for her country. She was mocked and ridiculed by the men who worked with her, but through her hard work and bravery, she gained respect and recognition. Even though she was a prime example of gaining equality for women, the rule of Stalin pushed back her efforts and accomplishments. In the USSR, the rule of Stalin had a great impact on the women of his country. Women were needed under him because the Soviet Union was a large participant in World War II. Many men had to be drafted to fight, and this event called for many men to get drafted into war, leaving their jobs to women. Furthermore, Stalin’s ultimate goal to industrialize forced him to use all the resources he had, including women he would not have considered otherwise. This, paired with his traditional communist ideals, led to more economic equality for the women of the Soviet Union. However, throughout all this economic progression, social equality was still at a low for women. This was mostly because of reinforced gender roles in society during this time period. Society did not want to let go of the beliefs that they had held for many years. During the rule of Stalin, women had more economic control but less social control over their lives through the events of World War II that led to less men in the workplace, traditional communist values and ideals of industrialization under Stalin, and reinforced gender roles throughout the USSR.

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.

Women can not drive, can not leave the house without male permission, and are only considered half a witness;which is half of what a male is. Today they are not treated equally and never have been, they are also being treated differently around the world. They need to be treated the same and equally as men are. Females are capable of the same things men can do and should be allowed to. Many women have protested in Women’s Rights Movements and now some things are starting to change, but not all. Women in Saudi Arabia can not drive until 2018, Women have been protesting their right, little but not all things have changed, and around the world women are treated unspeakably. Women around the world should have the same rights as men.

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,

As time passed and the world advanced in many areas, there was one, that never progressed. Women, and their right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Women, were still looked down to and they were considered second class citizens. At the time, men held all the important positions and had the best opportunities in life to become better. They decided who oversaw the government, made all the decisions in the household and had the last word no matter what. Eventually, women started to question these rules that they were under and rebelled against them. They were against history, where men throughout time have been in charge of the things they aspired to be and whenever they decided to speak out they were silenced or punished harshly. They were people in favor and against, in the following paragraphs I will give both points of views and why I am in favor of equal rights.