Women

For years women have been subjected to prejudice and been forced to reside in the shadow of their male counterparts, leaving many of their notable actions neglected and underappreciated. However, the roles of women by domestic, religious, and educational standards in both Judaism and Islam have shown significant advances throughout the centuries. Despite the differences between these religions and their individual beliefs, women appear to be granted similar roles and responsibilities under…

so most of the study literature and mediations focused on women. The National Survey was conducted by United States in 2010 and results were shocking every year, 1.3 to 5.3 million women experience violence by their intimate partner. In which 30% of female encounter physical violence, 9% faced raped, 17% undergo sexual violence other than rape, and 48% has faced psychological aggression. In order to control crimes and violence against women the Government of United States has passed the federal…

In Japan’s Comfort Women, subtitled the Sexual slavery and prostitution during World War II and the US occupation, the author Yuki Tanaka unearths a topic largely undiscussed throughout history. Published by Routledge in 2002, Tanaka goes into depth about the history of the exploitation of thousands of women used as comfort women, a euphemism for sexual slavery, for Japanese soldiers. The book is broken up into six chapters, including an epilogue, which focus on the different areas regarding…

Ayesha Akhter Hist 173 Yuki Terazawa “Comfort Women” During World War II, when Japan waged the so called “holy war” to dominate East Asia, the Japanese government arranged a system for the government officials, police and military police, to force women into being a “comfort women” which in other words, a sex slave. These women were abducted, deceived and violently raped. The point of “comfort women” was not only to stabilize the army’s morale but also to prevent rape and sexually transmitted…

gendercide is a sex-selective killing where men or women are victims disproportionately (Carpenter). The war against women in India goes back centuries with the deeply rooted, sexist cultural dynamics as well as the ineffective and unfair government policies that have led to the increase rates of gendercide. Girls become victims of female infanticide due to the financial and social…

the Taliban came to rule, all social aspects of life drastically changed for the women in Afghanistan. Women had the freedom to dress and present themselves according to their liking. Women dressed themselves wearing high heels, skirts that showed their bare legs, and freely styles hair and makeup. They could leave their house to go where they wanted, like any person should be able to do. Horia Mosadiq, and Afghan women, was a young girl at the time of Russia’s invasion in Afghanistan. Dealing…

Annotated Bibliography “Women in the Military.” Issues& Controversies. Infobase Learning, 6 June 2003. Web. July 12, 2016. This article expresses the supporting and opposing views of women in Combat. Supporters say that women are fully capable of being in combat, while the opposition is women in combat is less effective to the military because they are not as physically capable. This is overall a good source to use in the introduction because it gives both view points and basic information to…

In an excerpt of Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, the March sisters give up their Christmas breakfast to help an impoverished immigrant family. The March family's servant, Hannah, describes how the girls' mother helps others, "Some poor creeter came a-beggin', and your ma went straight off to see what was needed. There never was such a woman for givin' away vittles and drink, clothes and firin'" (Alcott para 17). The sisters want to follow their mother's example and make her proud. The girls…

Filipino comfort women decided to finally embark on the way toward justice, they were stopped by opposition and criticisms. For instance, memories of abuse by comfort women opposes the claim that comfort station functions to prevent rape cases. According to the Japanese officials, the “comfort stations” built during World War II serves to “prevent rape and sexually transmitted disease.” (Yoko 54). This is because during war times, Japanese armies performed numerous sexual crimes toward women…

Over the years, the amount of women in the medical field has increased tremendously compared to back in the days when the medical field was mainly occupied by males. For example, in 1970, only 7.6% of females were physicians in the medical field but by 2000, the percentage of women that becomes physicians increased to 24% which is a huge increase in a pretty short amount of time. Although the amount of women in the medical field has increased, the amount of gender discrimination moves such as…