Women's rights
“Women’s rights are the rights and the entitlements claimed for women
and girls worldwide, and formed the basis for the women’s rights movement in
the nineteenth century and feminist movement during the 20th
century. In some countries, these rights are supported by law, whereas in
others they are ignored. “
-Wikipedia
This is a subject that affects all women in the world but Americans were
slow to apply their egalitarian principals to women.
Decades after the Revolutionary War, hardly any women talked about the
fact that they didn’t have as many rights as men. During the 1830’s they discovered
that even enlightened men thought that women shouldn’t have the same privileges
as men.
As we all know, women have done a lot to have a voice, especially to get the right to vote. Many countries granted suffrage in steps: women would be allowed to vote for local elections first, then came some ethnic groups of people.
It started in 1718, in Sweden where female taxpaying members of city
guilds were allowed to vote and then many countries followed: Australia in the late
1800s, the US in 1920 or Spain in 1924.
As of today, women are still fighting for equal pay in almost every
country in the world.
“Equal pay for equal work is the concept of labor rights that individuals
in the same workplace be given equal pay.”
-Wikipedia
For example, since president John
F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act of 1963, it is illegal to pay men and women
doing similar jobs different salaries. However, we know this is still not the
case.
Despite much progress in empowering women, numerous issues still exist
in all countries in different areas in life such as cultural, political and
economic. For example: women in Saudi Arabia still can’t drive even if they can
vote since 2015, there are 32 countries where women have to ask their husband
to get a passport…
I totally agree with Zoe’s post, on another hand, few people can disagree with the courage and implication of women put in to getting civil rights during time. Her opinion on Women’s right is very fair and true.
ReplyDeleteI think that it’s an interesting subject and it’s important to know how women got all these rights today and know who to thank for their sacrifices.
I liked how Zoe approached the subject, by explaining first of all what women’s rights really where and how it was represented for women. Many people don’t know what women went through and I think it’s important to point it out.
But most of all what I liked about her post is that even though women made a lot of progress over the years Zoe stays very realistic and points out that even today we still have many discrimination due to gender and women still have to keep fighting to be more and more respected by men, especially in business.
It indirectly adds to our class discussion. In class we talked about global culture, global appropriation ... It isn’t a culture but a movement a little bite like “Gay Pride” but here all women around the world fought for it.