What are some real-life examples and case studies on discrimination against women in the world today?

Question

Hi.
What are some examples and case studies on female discrimination, in different countries of the world and in different situations? Eg, economic aspect, political aspect, socio-cultural aspect.

Thanks.

I'm mostly referring to gender here, not so much of race, religion etc, although there is discrimination in those aspects as well.

Answer 1

I think that violence is the most accepted and devastating form of discrimination against women in the world today.

At least one out of every three women around the world has been beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused in her lifetime — with the abuser usually someone known to her. Violence against women and girls is a universal problem of epidemic proportions. Perhaps the most pervasive human rights violation that we know today, it devastates lives, fractures communities, and stalls development.

Answer 2

In the grand scheme of the world, I am absolutely privileged. I am a white woman from an industrialized country who is well educated. I've got privilege coming out my ears. But then so do a lot of the men I deal with. Some of them are more aware of it than others.

Answer 3

Ok - I had it happen to me earlier this year. I'm a woman and it was done by a woman.

I'm getting my PhD. And you have to be really competative and aggressive to get a good job as a prof at a good college. So, when I told my boss I wanted to have a baby and my hubby and I were going to start trying, she reacted badly. First, she said, "you're too young!" I'm 29. Then she said, I'm not ready, then that my kids will be crazy. Finally, that I won't graduate and become a sucessful person.

WTF?!!? A woman telling me this? I know it's flippin' hard to have kids, but damn! She let me go about a month after our talk. She wasn't married and didn't have kids.

Answer 4

In the Middle East women are treated like dogs. If the women don't conform, they are beaten and tortured. They are forced to endure clitorectomies. True discrimination...not some made up malarky that Western women frequently complain about.

Answer 5

The fact that women still earn only .70 to every man's dollar in the workplace for the same amount of education and experience.

Answer 6

I am a white, female, janitor at a shopping mall and my boss wont let me work the graveyard shift like the men do because "its not safe". They promise me its not discrimination, just looking out for my safety.
They also wont hire men to work the housekeeping day shift because it's not "manly" and sets a bad example to the public.
You tell me.....

Answer 7

first you are here in the USA, and this is the only place to be the rest is all worse and bad for the freedom that women here are abusing
any open ear to coerce guilt trip on every male who ever lived but dear old dad

Answer 8

Whenever someone wants to talk about how America has often become softer or weaker or less able to stand up for what is right there is a term that is often used: "feminization of America". This term links weak characterists to women and refuses to even acknowledge that there are strong, tough, objective women who can separate intellect from sentiment and that there are men who are the opposite of such women.
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Women have often been told that if they want to be taken seriously in business (or elsewhere) they need to alter their naturally softer, "smaller" voices in order to develop a more
"booming" voice that is also lower (like men's).
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A feminine woman (with a soft face, small stature, "small voice", etc.) can make a statement and the person to whom that statement is made may tend to automatically be suspect of the accuracy or correctness of the statement. That same person may actually listen to a man (regardless of whether or not he is someone who always shows good sense and good judgment) automatically. What's worse is that one person can be told something by a feminine woman that is correct, but that person will instead believe the man who is incorrect.
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There is often a "worship" of the development of very exaggerated muscles or the belief that this is a sign of the "perfect physique" in women; when, in reality, the natural condition of women tends to either be slim and with less pronounced muscles or else rounder and with less pronounced muscles.
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Today there is much emphasis placed on "learning the differences between men and women", which may be reasonable; but the problem is that the same people who study those differences continue to fail to recognize how little those differences may make in the mature, well adjusted, intelligent, man or woman. In other words, while new information has been learned about any differences in men and women that information has not been accompanied by a sufficient awareness of individual differences in either gender and a sufficient awareness of how little those differences make when it comes to a person's strength and intellect. This trend is doing little to highlight the potential of women's intellect and reasoning ability, and so it can be seen as a new and more subtle form of contributing to discrimination.
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Unless women manage to build a little world for themselves that consists only of intelligent, mature, reasonable, individuals they are still often expected to take on the role of house-cleaner and all-purpose "worker bee".

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Women have the choice of being feminine-acting/looking and taking the very real risk of not being taken seriously or else denying their femininity, aiming to (and often succeeding at) being
taken seriously but being resented or even hated for not being feminine. If the woman who chooses her own femininity over sacrificing it attempts to be taken seriously or be heard she has to fight for the right to be listened to as if she is not entitled that as a human being; and she may or may not be listened to even then.
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Answer 9

like heres an example somemen say that
women cant work at a police departmant
someguys say women cant work on cars

Answer 10

have you ever seen the movie North Country? omg, that's a real story