Another theory is Marxism. Marxism is concerned with capitalism and approaches to power are distinctive in focusing on its relation to class domination in capitalist societies. Power is linked to class relations in economics, politics, and ideology (Jessop, 2004). Marxism is also concerned with “the motor in a capitalist society, the mode of production that provides for material needs...the key aspect of this sphere, the private ownership of the means of production that pivots around the exploitation of productive labour” (Smith & Riley, 2011). According to Smith and Riley (2011) this is a materialist understanding of society for it sees the division between the owners and workers as necessary to generate wealth and income. This means that
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What is human rights? This is the inability of a person or a group to be able to achieve their full humanity. We seek to unite people of different belief systems such religions and cultures. Oppressed people are unable to function well as they have only limited access to their humanity and it is believed that everyone should have equal power. It is also possible to argue that human rights are best seen as rights to certain speficic freedoms, and that the correlate obligation to consider the associated duties must also be centred around what others can do to safeguard and expand these freedoms (Sen, 2005). In addition to that, women’s human rights are violated in a variety of ways, they suffer abuses such as political repression that are similar to abuses suffered by female. In these horrific situations, female victims are often invisible, because the dominant image in our world is male. However, many violations of women’s human rights are connected to being female, that is, women are discriminated against and abused on the basis of gender. Statistics show that 1 in 3 women report having experienced sexual harassment. For 70% of women, this harassment occurs at work. Over 90% of sexual harassment complaints to the Human Rights Commission are made by women (Olsen, n.d.). More sexual harassment complaints were made to the Human Rights Commission by employees from small organizations with no sexual harrassment policy than by employees from large …show more content…
The power of dominance of male is making the female poplulation to suffer and their human rights are being oppresed. This inequality was shown with the data regarding how many women are being victimized by men in workplace. Marxism is also present in a hierarchical context, between those who own and who labour. This shows how women with lower status than men are very easy to be targeted by the dominant group which is the male population because these men think that they somehow own women because they work for them. Mitchell (1971) suggests that the position of women in the society under capitalist conditions is combined in a unit, which is family, and structures such sexuality, reproduction, and socialization are combined all together to be defined as the “woman’s world” while the structure of production defines the “man’s
What is human rights? This is the inability of a person or a group to be able to achieve their full humanity. We seek to unite people of different belief systems such religions and cultures. Oppressed people are unable to function well as they have only limited access to their humanity and it is believed that everyone should have equal power. It is also possible to argue that human rights are best seen as rights to certain speficic freedoms, and that the correlate obligation to consider the associated duties must also be centred around what others can do to safeguard and expand these freedoms (Sen, 2005). In addition to that, women’s human rights are violated in a variety of ways, they suffer abuses such as political repression that are similar to abuses suffered by female. In these horrific situations, female victims are often invisible, because the dominant image in our world is male. However, many violations of women’s human rights are connected to being female, that is, women are discriminated against and abused on the basis of gender. Statistics show that 1 in 3 women report having experienced sexual harassment. For 70% of women, this harassment occurs at work. Over 90% of sexual harassment complaints to the Human Rights Commission are made by women (Olsen, n.d.). More sexual harassment complaints were made to the Human Rights Commission by employees from small organizations with no sexual harrassment policy than by employees from large …show more content…
The power of dominance of male is making the female poplulation to suffer and their human rights are being oppresed. This inequality was shown with the data regarding how many women are being victimized by men in workplace. Marxism is also present in a hierarchical context, between those who own and who labour. This shows how women with lower status than men are very easy to be targeted by the dominant group which is the male population because these men think that they somehow own women because they work for them. Mitchell (1971) suggests that the position of women in the society under capitalist conditions is combined in a unit, which is family, and structures such sexuality, reproduction, and socialization are combined all together to be defined as the “woman’s world” while the structure of production defines the “man’s