women's rights

Examples of women's rights in the following topics:

• The Political Participation of Women

  • Women's political participation has increased due to landmark events—women's suffrage and the election of women to public office.
  • Women's rights are entitlements and freedoms claimed for women and girls of all ages in many societies.
  • The women's rights movement functions in response to an inherent historical and traditional bias against the exercise of rights by women and girls in favor of men and boys.
  • But critics feared it might deny women the right be financially supported by their husbands.
  • Break down the achievements and shortcomings of the battle for women's rights in the U.S.

• Women as a Minority

  • Women are considered a minority group, because they do not share the same power, privileges, rights, and opportunities as men.
  • Women's rights are entitlements and freedoms claimed for women and girls of all ages in many societies.
  • Issues commonly associated with notions of women's rights include, though are not limited to, the rights to: bodily integrity and autonomy; vote (suffrage); hold public office; work; fair wages or equal pay; own property; be educated; serve in the military or be conscripted; enter into legal contracts; and to have marital, parental, and religious rights.
  • The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in 1948, advocates "the equal rights of men and women," and addresses issues of equality.
  • Described as an international bill of rights for women, it went into effect on September 3, 1981.

• Gender and Social Movements

  • The feminist movement refers to a series of campaigns on issues pertaining to women, such as reproductive rights and women's suffrage.
  • The feminist movement refers to a series of campaigns for reforms on issues such as reproductive rights, domestic violence, maternity leave, equal pay, women's suffrage, sexual harassment and sexual violence.
  • It focused on de jure (officially mandated) inequalities, primarily on gaining women's suffrage (the right to vote).
  • Since 1975 the UN has held a series of world conferences on women's issues, starting with the World Conference of the International Women's Year in Mexico City, heralding the United Nations Decade for Women (1975–1985).
  • These have brought women together from all over the world and provided considerable opportunities for advancing women's rights, but also illustrated the deep divisions in attempting to apply principles universally, in successive conferences in Copenhagen (1980) and Nairobi (1985).

• The Feminist Perspective

  • In 2008, 10% of births were to teenage girls, and 14% were to women ages 35 and older.
  • Feminism is a broad term that is the result of several historical social movements attempting to gain equal economic, political, and social rights for women.
  • Second-wave feminism went a step further by seeking equality in family, employment, reproductive rights, and sexuality.
  • In 2008, 10% of births were to teenage girls, and 14% were to women ages 35 and older.
  • International Women's Day rally in Dhaka, Bangladesh, organized by the National Women Workers Trade Union Centre on March 8, 2005.

• Gender Inequality in Politics

  • Women have had to fight for equal treatment in politics in the United States by winning the right to vote and a seat at the political table.
  • Finally, we will consider assumptions made about women's political leanings on the basis of gender.
  • Before 1920, women did not have a national right to vote in the United States.
  • The Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 was a single step in a broad and continuous effort by women to gain a greater proportion of social, civil, and moral rights for themselves; but was viewed by many as a revolutionary beginning to the struggle for women's equality.
  • Mott, along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, organized the Seneca Falls Convention in 1948, effectively launching the women's civil rights movement in the United States.

• The Cross-Cultural Perspective

  • These small glimpses are not universal by any means, but this overview should provide a brief summary of just how much women's lives vary and how much women's lives seem similar across national boundaries.
  • Chile grants both men and women the right to vote and had one of the first female presidents in the world.
  • Women were granted the right to vote in 1946.
  • Legally, few barriers to women's equal participation in social and professional life remain in Japan.
  • Better educational prospects are improving women's professional prospects.

• Feminist Theory

  • Although women were primarily ignored, barred, and/or disenfranchised within most scientific communities prior to the women's rights movement of the 1960's and 1970's (for a notable exception in Sociology, see Dorothy Swaine Thomas), women have contributed to scientific disciplines, methods, and theories since at least the 1830's.
  • Following the establishment of women's academic conferences and coordinated protests of the American Sociological Association's annual meetings during the 1970's, women made significant inroads into Sociology.
  • Further, historical research into the history of Feminist Thought has uncovered a litany of social theorists - including but not limited to early abolitionists and women's rights proponents like Maria W.
  • Cooper, Harriet Tubman, and one of the first African American women to earn a college degree, Mary Church Terrell; early black feminist writers promoting gender and sexual equality like Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and Richard Bruce Nugent; early 20th Century writers and activists that sought racial civil rights, women's suffrage, and prison reform like Ida B.
  • Marxist feminists believe that the oppression of women stems primarily from capitalism, which exploits women's labor and is upheld through women's unpaid domestic labor.

• The Feminist Perspective

  • Mary Ann Weathers demonstrates intersectionality in action in "An Argument for Black Women's Liberation as a Revolutionary Force."
  • It aims to understand the nature of gender inequality, and examines women's social roles, experiences, and interests.
  • While generally providing a critique of social relations, much of feminist theory also focuses on analyzing gender inequality and the promotion of women's interests .
  • Mary Ann Weathers demonstrates intersectionality in action in "An Argument for Black Women's Liberation as a Revolutionary Force."
  • This 1919 German social democratic election poster advocates for the rights of women.

• The Feminization of Poverty

  • Women's increasing share of poverty is related to the rising incidence of lone mother households.
  • The responsibilities associated with motherhood further limit women's economic attainment.
  • Poor health reduced women's ability to earn income, and, thus, is a key factor increasing and perpetuating household poverty.
  • Countries with strong gender discrimination and social hierarchies limit women's access to basic education.
  • Formal employment is government regulated, and workers are insured a wage and certain rights.

• Sexism

  • The belief that men and women (as well as other genders) are very different and that this should be strongly reflected in society, language, the right to have sex, and the law.
  • In 1972, the average college in the U.S. had two women's sports teams.
  • In just the four years between 2000 and 2004, universities in the U.S. added 631 new women's teams.
  • What's more, the little amount of air time given to women often portrays women's sports as "novelties" or pseudo-sports and often includes gags, like the women's nude bungee jump in 1999.
  • Up until the 19th Century most women could not own property and women's participation in the paid labor force outside the home was limited.