Woman's Rights???

Question

I have to write a paper on woman's without rights>>> Could you give me some places woman DONT have rights and what things can they NOT do.................

but what can't they do?????????

Answer 1

Women without rights (this is happening today):

1) Women who can't vote in their country:
Saudi Arabia -- No suffrage for women. The first local elections ever held in the country occurred in 2005. Women were not given the right to vote or to stand for election:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3734420.stm

Vatican City -- No suffrage for women. The only elections ever held there are Papal conclaves, which involve only (male) Cardinals:
https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/vt.html#Govt

2) Africa: Female genital mutilation is practiced in sub-Saharan Africa in 28 countries (don't have the right to keep important body parts) :
http://www.un.org/ecosocdev/geninfo/afrec/vol17no1/171wm1.htm

3a) Worldwide: Sexual slavery of women and children (sold into prostitution by family)
http://www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/2005/46606.htm
3b) Russian Sexual slavery:
http://gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Russia.htm

4a) Domestic violence is the biggest cause of injury and death to women worldwide. Gender-based violence causes more deaths and disability among women aged 15 to 44 than cancer, malaria, traffic accidents, and war. (World Bank Discussion Paper)
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/what_we_do/issues/gender/introduction.htm

4b) Domestic Violence info from the World Health Organization:
The greatest amount of violence was reported by women living in provincial (for the most part rural) settings in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Peru, and the United Republic of Tanzania: http://www.who.int/gender/violence/who_multicountry_study/summary_report/chapter2/en/index.html

5) According to the UN and Oxfam, 75 per cent of the world’s 876 million illiterate adults are women: http://www.oxfam.org.uk/what_we_do/issues/gender/introduction.htm

6) Poverty/Pay equity info according to the UN:
Women work two-thirds of the world’s working hours, and produce half of the world’s food, yet earn only ten per cent of the world’s income, and own less than one per cent of the world’s property. http://www.oxfam.org.uk/what_we_do/issues/gender/poverty.htm

Good luck!

Answer 2

Even this day and age, many men that marry women think they have a right to boss them around, beat them and go through their things just because they are married and they think because they put a ring on a woman's finger and they sign a piece of paper that they own that woman. And, the fact in most cases its the woman that changes her last name when she marries and people don't think stay at home moms and homemakers work or they mount to anything and if you see certain papers, its mens names first and women under men and they consider all men the primary provider and men were always taught that they are superior and the boss and that women don't matter and we are second class citizens and that's why they treat women like that and they are teaching their sons to disrespect women and be women haters and they are teaching their daughters that this is the way and they don't matter either. We women just haven't come very far from the 70's with the women's movement and being able to vote. We need to still stand together and be heard and demand equality, and, when their are feminist still, the media and everyone make them out to be dikes. I am a 36 year old married woman with a son and a daughter and I teach them to respect one another and everyone else and to be tolerate and that my daughter is just as great as my son and my husband and I show each other respect and equality. I have seen what my mother and my sisters go through letting men control them and I have become a feminist by choice. So, feminism aren't dikes, lesbians or men haters, I have proven that theory to be wrong. Power to my sisters!

Answer 3

So many women of third world nations can not make choices for themselves.

I'll start with the one closest to us - Mexico.

A married woman can not go to a bar with anyone but her husband. I have a friend went out with a girlfriend after work, and was told that he (her husband) would kill her if she did it again. And to prove his point, he stayed up all night, holding her by the throat, so she would learn this. She is not mexican, but has married one, so she has to live by his rules.

If a Mexican woman tries to buy a new washer or stove at a store, the salesperson will tell her to go get her husband and think it was funny that she tried buying one without his approval.

She can not buy a car either. Or have her own money.

He can beat her and she can not do anything about it. The law technically will help her, but in reality, the husband has the right to do this. To preserve the family. It is his right and duty. Her parents will not stop her from being beaten either.

It is their culture - do not judge other cultures harshly. Sometimes it is a case of survival, or at least, that's how they see it.

Lets go to China, where in outlying places, a woman marries who her parents choose - and so does the man. They do not marry out of love. She can not go get a job, without her husband's approval. Not in the big cities, it has changed there, but out in small farm villages, where people live how they did hundreds of years ago..

A woman in such a place, does not live for her family, but her husbands family. Her mother-in-law has more say over her life than her own mother and father.

Have you ever seen a small Chinese girl with an American mother and father? In These outlying places, a man and his wife are taken care of by their son, if they have a daughter, she helps take care of her husbands parents, and so, if you have a girl - and you can have only one child in China, well, you have no one to take care of you when you get sick and old - you die, so girls are sometimes thrown away. Discarded and then the couple tries for a son. This is against the law, but it happens because there is no one protecting the woman's rights.

There are girls in India, that their parents have mutilated medically, so they will not be apt to wander in their marriage. She can not stop them from doing this. Her parents decide for her.

I hope this helps.

Answer 4

There's lots of cover-ups right here in the USA. Rent "North Country" and "GI Jane" and you'll see. That is how it is. The government STILL doesn't really welcome women into it. They pattern the USA after the bible which sadly teaches that men rule. That's why we won't be seeing a female president! It's a shame that as far as we've come, we are still not recognized or as valued. Lots of men are given better paying jobs and more employment opportunities and opportunites for advancement than females.
Women in many parts of the USA do not have complete rights over their own bodies: The government has decided for them they can not have an abortion if they need one. (And YES some women need this). I had to go through red tape just to get approval for a hysterectomy I needed because of a bleeding problem I had. Many doctors try making women's decisions for them, while they keep cranking out the VIAGRA to the men! Women are not very welcome in many places in the military and they are not found on the frontlines. There are many jobs where the male ego is so dominant, they manage to keep women out of employment there. I have personally experienced this when I had applied for a county position in NY once. I was told that I didn't get the job because they didn't want me to feel uncomfortable working around men. I was NOT uncomfortable AND I was qualified, but I got passed over and they hired a man instead. It also happened at a certain Mart (I won't say which, but we all know who this big company is, and it's NOT KMart!!) I was told that they "want the women up front, and the guys in the back." I asked what emplyoment they had, and they guy looked on a list, trying to find work HE deemed fitting for a female! I told him to stick it! Another job was at a nursing home, when I wanted a full time job, but they gave me part time, promising to offer me a full time spot when it opened. One eventually DID open, but the boss gave it to a guy off the street, instead of posting it first as required! These are just some of the smaller but IMPORTANT problems women face in America.

Answer 5

India, Asia, Mid East., Africa..

Answer 6

Women don't have the right to chivalry any more because of constant claims of independence and constant accusations of men as being evil which is abandoning their part in chivalry.

To fix that, they could start trying to live chivalrously themselves.

Answer 7

none exist in America! any questions?