Women In Equality By Shirin Ebadi

Superior Essays
A mother wakes to fix breakfast for her child. Another day, living in a country where she’s unable to work in the field she has a passion for; trapped in a loop as a housewife. Persisting another day in a country that lacks the allowance (qualification) of either one of them access to human rights. Finding a way to reopen those eyes to the rights, and equality they lack within their country is not an easy task. Promoting what these people deserve in their lives is a fight that Shirin Ebadi was going to hold onto until it was gained. These people that have, and still, suffer from this lack of knowledge are now able to begin gaining insight to rights they’ve attained at birth. By promoting equality through human rights, in her organizational …show more content…
As you can interrupt that of how women are seen in Iran and other countries, the idea of religion being persuasive and controlling is nothing more than true. The advantage that religion claims over a vast majority of people is stunning.
Sherrod 4
Though religion also leads to people’s decisions as does the society you’ve grown up and surrounded yourself in. For multiple centuries, women have been seen as only
“housewives” and being generationally disadvantaged in the working field. Not only until recently have women initiated to slowly institute the escalation in their status for working, as well as in common person to person rank; how they’re treated on the street.
Shirin had also mentioned in an interview that religion only makes up but a singular portion of a nation. In a comparison to a culture, in which essentially makes up the entire nature of a nation. The aspect of having a religion is basically nothing more than but a bonus to add to one’s culture, a personal choice and decision made by one whose native to that culture. Shirin was saying that the culture itself should leave more of a

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    Cesar Chavez Human Rights

    • 1048 Words
    • 5 Pages

    There are many people in the world looking to accomplish some sort of goal, whether it’s to ace that test, win the gold medal, or get something to happen in their community. It may look easy, but there are many hardships that come along with trying to fulfill a goal. Like human rights activists, they are trying to change and improve what’s happening in the world around them; a few of them are Mother Jones, Cesar Chavez, and Malala. Mother Jones strived at changing children’s and workers rights, Cesar Chavez made a change in (mainly) the farm workers community, and Malala currently speaks out for women and educational rights. Although Malala, Cesar, and Mother Jones all fought for different types of human rights, they all had to persevere and…

    • 1048 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Beauty matters. Well, at least for some. From the clothes you choose to wear (and the ones you don’t) to the items you own, everything surrounding you changes how people perceive you, even things completely out of someone’s control. Pressures to adhere to societal norms can cause long-term harm for certain people, but others can take this concept in stride. Due to different upbringings, along with different environmental influences, it allows for a range of perspectives.…

    • 1601 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    History of United States is full of ups and downs. So many good things happened that improved the future of of the whole nation, but we cannot forget about the dark side. Wars, gender inequality, and racial discrimination make up the majority of negative aspects. People who are oppressed, abused, and minority look for escapes from their misery. One of those last resorts is religion.…

    • 939 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In this time and day the racism is everywhere you could imagine. The violence is none stop, you hear about the same race killing each other. But most importantly you hear different races killing each other. the hate towards someone of a different race is incredible. Everywhere you go people look at you differently, like if you didn't belong here.…

    • 538 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    The treatment of women in fundamentalist religions The treatment of women in the Middle East is barbaric, unjust and unthinkable. In Afghanistan alone “87 percent of women report having experienced physical, sexual or psychological violence or forced marriage”.1 In the Middle East women are seen as unequal in comparison to men just because they are born a female and are seen not to have the mental capacity of that of a man. The Quran itself has many conflicting ideas on the treatment of women. However, the Quran was written around 610AD so it has to be taken into consideration the fact that the attitudes and status of women back then was not the way it is today.…

    • 1598 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Etc.… (Hosseini 295). This shows how everyone must be very religious. Women have to stay at home all times and when walking the streets they have to be accompanied by a male relative and that they must all be complexly covered even their faces. If they do not follow the rules they will be either beaten, prisoned, tortured or executed. When Laila was pregnant with her second child her, Mariam and Rasheed had a hard time finding a hospital where women would get treated.…

    • 1446 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Religion Vs The Crucible

    • 110 Words
    • 1 Pages

    The old saying, “Never talk about politics or religion” is still true to this very day. Religion. One word with such power and such controversy,. It is evident that even to this day there is a strong opposition between politics and religion and The Crucible, written in the 1950’s, captures a glimpse of that reality. As an American society we still debate both and there has never been a time where both sides can come to an agreement.…

    • 110 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In Nigel Barley’s “The Innocent Anthropologist” the main ideas seen at the beginning of the story is how hard it to do field work. When Barley figured out he wanted to do his research on the Dowayos it took him a while just to step foot in their village. I would also say another main ideas is whether or not one should do field work and how it helps enhance human knowledge. I think the ultimate goal for him to research the Dowayos was to absorb a culture that not many knew about, and also to make outsiders aware of the Dowayos.…

    • 642 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini expresses how the stereotypes and expectations of Afghan women control and limit their lives, as well as put women in a status far below men. The women in this novel are forced to endure their suffering quietly; few men, who have all political and social power, consider the mistreatment of women an act of injustice. The female protagonists in this novel, Mariam and Laila, are treated more as objects than humans by their oppressive suitor, Rasheed. In this paragraph, Hosseini shows the excruciating struggle for Afghan women and other women worldwide by focusing on the lives of Laila and Mariam throughout the novel. Hosseini describes the injustices towards the female characters as a cycle,…

    • 387 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    The book Feminism for Everybody by the author Bell Hooks gives a clear idea to the reader about what feminism is, the history of the feminist movement, and what people think of feminism. The way the author has written this books gives the readers a different perspective on the feminist theory. What feminism? To answer this question, we must first establish a commonality in language: namely, what is feminism? Feminism could be defined as a person who supports females, or as a movement that would end sexism, and oppression.…

    • 2196 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    (Karenga 2010 Pg.280) Woman have also changed religiously, Islamic women have shifted the cultural tradition changing the way many Women and families pray. In Philadelphia where I’m from the majority of women are living an Islamic lifestyle more openly. Religion is often more excepted in Women. in fact, “the tendency on Womanist is above all defined by its rootedness in the Christian tradition.” (Karenga 2010 Pg.…

    • 1021 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    In Anne-Marie Slaughter’s essay “Why Women Still Can’t Have It all” Slaughter explains how she wants to incorporate her success and family to have a balanced life. Slaughter is the president and CEO of the New American Foundation, “a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy institute, and has taught at Princeton University and Harvard Law School and worked as director of policy planning for the U.S. State Department. Slaughter’s concern is not being a supportive mother to her children because of working policies. Her working policies require her to work for long periods of time while juggling reports, and writing commentaries on drafts, leaving little room to spend time with her family. I agree that working in a high position job can have a negative…

    • 1327 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    “Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history.” These are the words of the author of A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini. Oppression of women is an offense that is common in the country of Afghanistan. Majority of the women in Afghanistan are illiterate and suffer at the hand of the misogynistic culture. A Thousand Splendid Suns is an amalgamation that reveals the tyrannical treatment and degradation of women in Afghanistan.…

    • 1274 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Crossing several different boundaries in the human experience, religion is notoriously difficult to define. Still, many attempts have been made, and while every theory has its limitations, each perspective has contributed to our current understanding of this complex phenomenon. We can now identify several of the characteristic elements that religion consists of. To followers, religion is a way of life guiding thinking, feeling, and acting. It usually provides something or someone requiring devotion.…

    • 584 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Culture is part of every society and is the basis on how people within the society react and live their lives. Every culture is subject to change in order to match the society around the world. However, there are several obstacles that are in the way of such cultural change. Through the different surroundings, a deep social connection to religion, and a lack of technology, cultures have a resistance against change. An example will be given of how it prohibits the growth in certain societies, because within each society, there are certain things that hinder the change and growth of a culture, as well as keep a culture together and unique.…

    • 1350 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays