Women's rights

agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians” (Pat Robertson, 1992). With respect to Mr. Robertson, Feminism is about equality. Despite its focus on the female gender, Feminism does not correlate to man-hating. Feminism, while an American design, is a global movement. Despite advances in women’s equality in America,…

girls of color in a way that ensures that we are advancing equity.” Put another way, if you have a bad shoulder it doesn't matter how much money you put into fixing the knee, the shoulder is still bad. Without good data putting the money into the right places, the problems are not going to be…

Women’s rights are a controversial topic in the Middle East. Many have spoken out against Arab’s strict laws regarding women, but little action has been taken to improve the lives of Arab women. However, some Arab countries have women’s rights that are fairly similar to those in Western countries. In other parts of the world, many people are against these harsh laws, but they don’t truly know what cruel realities women in the Middle East face and how minimal action has been taken to combat these…

debate is what continually goes on between Elisabeth and Descartes. This type of discourse is what moves humanity along, and for a woman to be involved in that is a huge deal. This proves that women have the same power as men to move humanity in the right…

these rights and liberties because of the commitment past women, such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucretica Mott, and Betty Freidan, have made to social transformation. While the fundamental rights we have today-- such as the ability to obtain education, to vote, and have our voices heard—are often taken for granted, these rights are seventy-two years in the making. Social transformation begins with an individual’s commitment and passion for a cause. The Women’s Rights…

Since The Founding, who has the right to vote is a privilege that’s been debated. The founding fathers restricted the amount of people eligible to vote. I believe that anyone who lives under the laws formed by politicians should be able to vote and select those who write the laws. While I hold that opinion I can see where the Founding Fathers and many law makers were coming from, back then men were superior and women were expected to agree with their husbands’ ideals and political views. In…

society, women are expected to have all of the rights that men do, and those rights are supposed to be equal. However, this idea is preposterous to some males. This was especially true in the 1980’s, where women’s rights were not as much of a norm as it is in 2017. This period of time, precisely 1986, is when Margaret Atwood wrote her dystopian novel, The Handmaid’s Tale. The novel describes a society in which women are stripped of all of their rights and forced into social classes that are…

Each year, millions people from all over the world fight for women’s rights of suffrage, equal employment, education, human rights and reproductive rights. The reproductive rights have a significant influence in women’s rights, especially in the United States. In the history of the United States, since eighteenth century the reproductive rights movement has been struggling because of its moral consideration, especially abortion. When abortion was a crime, the maternal deaths were high for women…

The solution of education and work ethic for women did not necessarily bring the human rights problem any change. When it came for them to become something and start to work for themselves, the government would take it away from them. An example being that guilds would be put in place so it could protect men’s jobs (Detrick “The Early Renaissance”)…

Before Title IX, nothing stopped men from saying if women could or could not do something. It was legal for colleges to not admit someone because of their gender. Since Title IX is such a large part of women’s rights’ history, more people deserve to know about it. Title IX is a civil rights law, passed on June 23, 1972 that makes it illegal to discriminate against someone based on their sex. This law is best known for the opportunities given to girls in the athletics department. Before…