* Women’s Rights (Quran)
The human rights of women are a basic, integral and unified piece of general human rights. The full and equivalent cooperation of women in political, common, monetary, social and social life, at the national, provincial and worldwide dimensions, and the annihilation of all types of segregation on the grounds of sex are need goals of the universal network. The amazing changes for women that have occurred over those seven ages in family life, in religion, in government, in work, in training these progressions did not simply happen suddenly . Women themselves rolled out these improvements occur, in all respects intentionally. Women have not been the uninvolved beneficiaries of extraordinary changes in laws and human instinct. Seven ages of women have met up to influence these adjustements in the most equitable ways: through gatherings, request drives, campaigning, open talking, and peaceful obstruction. They have worked in all respects intentionally to make a superior world, and they have succeeded immensely.
All through 1998, the 150th commemoration of the Women’s Rights Movement is being praised the country over with projects and occasions taking each structure possible. In the same way as other astounding stories, the historical backdrop of the Women’s Rights Movement started with a little gathering of individuals addressing why human lives were as a rule unjustifiably tightened. Like all social movements, the “women’s rights as human rights” movement is dynamic, historical, and hardly immune to disputes and disagreements over the appropriate strategies, objectives, and agendas. Moreover, despite their many accomplishments, advocates still confront numerous obstacles. In the a long time since that first, milestone Women’s Rights Convention, women have clarified advance in the zones tended to by Elizabeth Cady Stanton in her progressive Declaration of Sentiments. Not just have women won the privilege to cast a ballot; they are being chosen to open office at all dimensions of government. Women and girls today are experiencing the heritage of women’s rights that seven ages of women before us have given their best to accomplish.
*Women discrimination at work (Genesis)
Today’s date women deal with a lot of discrimination including discrimination at the workplace.
Its sad that still in 2019 women have to deal with this nonsense. Just a few days ago Abc news posted that just now California banned racial discrimination agaist employes with natural hairstyles. That should have been years ago being this a free country and all. Women are usually treated as the weak sex at the time of looking for job. There’s always the prejudice of what women can do or not, or if women fit in the career requirement and intelligence. Even now in XXI women still need to prove themselves that we are capable to do any men’s job and that we do it better. We see it all the time, when women get paid less than men because they’re men, Or when women are denied to work in men places like trucks companies and taxis comnies. There’s always the discrimination and the need for us to work even harder than men so we can show them we can do it.
Sexism in the workplace is still so common as the discrimination at the sports. We see how women olympics never have been followed and supported. Gender discrimination in athletics industry has been controverital a topic for everyone. Because, no matter how tough women are there’s still a low percentage of people supporting women in sports. Statistics says that male athletes gets more than $179 million in athletic scholarships per year than females. This is not because women can’t do better, but because is more profit and “secure” to invest in a male athlete than a woman, leading to unequal wages and setting apart verbally and visually in the media and major newspapers. Totaling women sports stories in a 3.5 percent of all sports stories. This happens because they still don’t think we’re worth the investment. And still we have much more to work for gender equality.
*Black women discrimination (karsly)
The discrimination of the Black women is a challenge that they have been subjected to as early as during the slave trade and unfortunately, little no change has occurred to help them. During the slave trade era, the predominant view of black women was that of being workers. This is was a view that saw them degraded as being mere mothers who need to be at home. This meant that black women were seen as mere helpers and thus never prioritized when it came to economic opportunities. Moreover, contrary to the expectation of the civil right movement where social equity was fought for, black women have faced more discrimination as workers compared to as mothers (Prather et al., 2018). This is an assertion that is evident with the fact that more black women are involved in the economy in terms of offering labor yet their economic status in the society has not improved. This is a result of the black women facing highly discriminative economic policies back then and in the current era.
This economic discrimination has meant that black women can only access poorly paying jobs which have forced them to work for more hours to try and improve their welfare. Moreover, this continued economic discrimination has meant that contrary to their non-Hispanic White women, the black women continue to be subjected to harsh labor demands such as unpaid-leave and this has meant the same women avoiding social progress such as starting a family (Prather et al., 2018). This is because of the fact the black women are mostly able to secure wage-based jobs where pay is based on hours worked. Above all, the economic discrimination facing black women is that due to the lack of proper representation at the policy-making levels, the black women have continued to be decision takers in the labor market. A clear indication of this can be seen in the median pay where, in 2017, they attracted a median annual pay of $36000 which was 21% lower than that the white women received (Banks, 2019). The discrimination aspect of these statistics can only be appreciated by the fact that in 2017 78% of black moms were working in comparison to just 66% which comprised of Whites, Latin and Asian American moms. This is a clear indication of the fact that more black women were involved in the labor market yet combined they could not match the pay of other women who were less in the labor market (Banks, 2019). It is, consequently, clear that discrimination is a societal vice that affected women back as early as slave trade era and once that continues to undermine them even in the current era more so in the labor market.
*Women discrimination around the world (Chala)
Discrimination the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex. Globally, 750 million women and girls were married before the age of 18 and at least 200 million women and girls in 30 countries have undergone FGM.
The rates of girls between 15-19 who are subjected to FGM (female genital mutilation) in the 30 countries where the practice is concentrated have dropped from 1 in 2 girls in 2000 to 1 in 3 girls by 2017.
In 18 countries, husbands can legally prevent their wives from working; in 39 countries, daughters and sons do not have equal inheritance rights; and 49 countries lack laws protecting women from domestic violence. One in five women and girls, including 19 per cent of women and girls aged 15 to 49, have experienced physical and/or sexual violence by an intimate partner with the last 12 months. Yet, 49 countries have no laws that specifically protect women from such violence.
While women have made important inroads into political office across the world, their representation in national parliaments at 23.7 percent is still far from parity.In 46 countries, women now hold more than 30 percent of seats in national parliament in at least one chamber.
*Sexism and prejudice against women (Sadia)
Women have been at a disadvantage since the beginning of time. They have faced much more oppression than men ever have. When it comes to a woman’s body or health, or even her wage, men have always been making the rules. Roe V Wade was one of the biggest wins for women in America. The case allowed women to safely and legally have the right to make choices about their bodies regarding abortions. Before this case, nearly 200 women died yearly. Due to the desperation, they were put in to suffer, they would self operate and induce. Often times they would use very harmful methods that ruined their body and even led to death. Others who have tried to abort and failed were fined and jailed and put to humiliation. Many times the women who died were those living in poverty. The reason is that wealthy women were able to pay off medical providers in secret to be able to safely ensure a result. The laws against abortion were always targetted against women, particularly the women who could not afford it.
In the past month in the United States, Alabama, Georgia and Missouri have signed aggressive anti-abortion laws in the states. Those who decided the bill were all men. 12 men were put in charge to decide what women can do with her ovaries and her body. After so much suffrage, the country went backward. Due to this law, women will likely be in more harm in the coming days. Individuals living in those states are amongst the poorest in the country. Those who can not afford to have children will now be forced to. Even under circumstances of rape and health issues, these women will be fined or jailed if caught trying to abort a fetus. The bill that was passed only proves that even in this generation of the world, women have to suffer because of choices made by a few men.
Another disadvantage that women in this day and age face in the United States are the wage gap between women and their male counterparts. Although women make up about half of the workforce in the country, they are still paid 20 percent less than men. Most of these companies do not promote women at the same pace as men either, resulting in men working on a higher level regardless of how much work both the genders put in. Women of color are also paid less than Caucasian men and women. Hispanic and African American women make about 59 percent of the wage that men make. In various aspects of life, women are still very discriminated.
References
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Prather, C., Fuller, T. R., Jeffries, W. L., Marshall, K. J., Howell, A. V., Belyue-Umole, A., & King, W. (2018). Racism, African American Women, and Their Sexual and Reproductive Health: A Review of Historical and Contemporary Evidence and Implications for Health Equity. Health Equity, 2, 1, 249-259
Yates, Jacqueline Laurean. “California Senate Passes New Bill Banning Racial Discrimination against Employees with Natural Hairstyles.” ABC News, 24 Apr. 2019, abcnews.go.com/GMA/Style/california-senate-passes-bill-banning-racial-discrimination-employees/story?id=62598207.
