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Women’s rights…. Why not just human rights?. That was one man’s false.
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Women’s rights… Why not just human rights?
That was one man’s false “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,thatthey are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Thomas Jefferson
What are women’s rights? During the whole of the nineteenth century, women had no political rights though there had been some movement in other areas to advance the rights of women. In 1857, women could divorce husbands who were cruel to them or husbands who had left them. In 1870, women were allowed to keep money they had earned. In 1891, women could not be forced to live with husbands unless they wished to. These were very important laws which advanced the rights of women.
Violence to women • In Pakistan,men are beating women at alarming rates,yet government officials refuse to interfere and punish batterers. • In Thailand,Buma and Nigeria, women are constantly being sold trafficked into prostitution where governments are not doing enough protect the rights of women. • In Ukraine and Mexico, women are often denied employment simply because they are women.
Discrimination • Abuse violence and discrimination against women are widely tolerated and systematic. • The issues with women’s rights are still being ignored and remain as a social “social epidemic”. • Many governments turn a blind eye towards the increasing problems with the discrimination and violence against women.
Women’s suffrage rights • In the fought most for this right became known as the Suffragettes. The original molater years of the nineteenth century, women wanted one very basic right - the right to vote. This was strictly known as the right of suffrage and the group thatvement for women's political rights was a non-violent one lead by Millicent Fawcett. . She argued that those women who had money and employed men as gardeners, cooks etc., were in the absurd position of note being able to vote yet those men employed in their employment did, those women that worked paid the same level of tax as men who were employed, but the men could vote and the women could not. However, Fawcett's arguments were not listened to . • Such a reaction lead to some women taking a more hard-line attitude and in 1903, the Women's Social and Political Union was created by Emmeline Pankhurst. TheybecameknownastheSuffragettes.She believed that if men would not listen to reasonable ideas, then women should use force to push for what they wanted - the right to vote. Their polices included the burning of churches, attacks on politicians, disrupting the day-to-day work of Parliament and, if arrested, going on hunger strike. Their campaign took them into the twentieth century - a century that gave women over 30 years of age the right to vote in 1918 and allowed them to stand for Parliament as MP's in the same year. In 1928, women were given the same political rights as men.
Why women’s land rights? When women have secure rights to their land, they are better able to provide for their family’s needs – especially those of their children. Studies show the linkages when women have secure rights to land: • Family nutrition and health improves; • Women may be less likely to be victims of domestic violence; • Children are more likely to receive an education and stay in school longer; • Women may have better access to micro-credit; • Women’s participation in household decision-making increases. Women produce nearly half of the food grown in the developing world. Often, they do not have secure rights to the land they farm and are denied equal rights to access, inherit, or own it. As a result, these women are at an increased risk of losing their source of food, income, and shelter should they lose their only link to the land they till: husbands, fathers, or brothers taken by illness, violence, or migration.
