Women's health

backgrounds ad very different agendas pressed for their goals of a better America. Reformers were reacting to the challenges that face the country at the end of the nineteenth century like immigration, corruption, industrial working conditions and women’s right just to name a few. Different causes shared some underlying elements each movement largely focused on its own goals. The Muckrakers (a group of Journalists and writers) were responsible for the spark that ignited the progressive…

Indigenous peoples, particularly Indigenous women, have had a long-standing struggle fighting against neo-colonial societies that seek to underpin the self-determination of Indigenous land and bodies. In this essay, I shall analyse the article “Our Bodies, Our Communities, Our Self-Determination” by Winona LaDuke through a feminist technoscience lens, and argue that Indigenous environmental conservation practices are long standing form of technology that can be used to resist harmful…

historians term as women’s era when women started having greater social, economic and political influence. It was the era of women struggle for recognition and equal rights movement which laid the foundation for political equality, economic and social reforms. Women were always in the forefront of social reform. However, their roles were often limited. Their work was often confined to household chore, raising children and agriculture. The late 1800’s and progressive era broadened women’s…

Because young ladies are preferred for marriage, older women (widows) lean on prostitution to support themselves. Afghanistan speaks in terms of complementarity and separation, not equality. This is to say, men and women have their ascribed roles and women’s subservient role is designed to compliment men’s more superior role (Lynne Manganaro). Thus, the promotion of gender equality is less prevalent amongst the general population due to culture and religious…

Second Great Awakening on the Women’s Rights Movement The Second Great Awakening aimed to improve the relationship between people and the overall good of American society. The era consisted of the movement toward the abolishment of slavery, better public education, utopian society, and women's rights. All of these rights were motivated by the mass religious diversification and evangelistic thought, and had an impact on America that became controversial, in the sense of political sovereignty…

colonialization of Korea and suppressing women’s rights. Japanese leaders indoctrinated the ideology of national submission to the Emperor began to be revitalized in the Japanese society. This society was characterized as a family-state system, also know as the ie system. This system incorporated all Japanese citizens as a members of a family and the emperor as its head. The Meiji constitution was introduced in 1889 and later the Civil Code suppressed women’s rights significantly. These…

inequalities between men and women in education, employment, social right and so on. Some social evils such as child marriage, sati system, devadasi system, purdah system, prohibition of widow remarriage etc., which were a great hurdle in the path of women’s progress were either controlled…

Women’s Rights are Human Rights “It is no longer acceptable to discuss women’s rights as separate from human rights.” On September 5th, 1995, in Beijing, China, Hillary Rodman Clinton took action and spoke about the violence and discrimination against women. The rights of women are the most often ones whose human rights are violated. Even till today, late 20th century, women are still fighting to have the equality and respect as men. Clinton’s speech targets the governments and different…

or People: A Women’s Place in Music Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. –Plato Music shapes who we are as an individual as well as a society, however, within the last several decades there has been an astonishing increase in the objectification of women in the music industry. From country, to pop, to rock, to hip-hop and rap there has been a dramatic rise in the use women’s bodies to…

ver their reproductive health, gaining property, right to work and get equal pay and other rights that were given to men. Because of the need to enjoy equal rights as men, women have come up with many movements that have enabled them to fight for their rights. As a matter of fact, most of the Women's Rights Movements have yielded results. On the other hand, the Civil Rights Movement denoted the struggle exhibited by the African Americans around the period of the mid-1950s. The aim of the…