The Issue of Women’s Rights Around the World

Women’s rights are essential human rights that were preserved by the United Nations for every human being on the earth nearly 70 years ago. These rights contain the right slavery, to live free from violence, and discrimination, to be educated; to own property; to vote; and to earn a fair and equal wage. I think lately there are several events in the news that can directly relate to the issue of Women’s Rights around the world and in the United States.

One of the most important educations of the Women’s Rights emphasis of the 1950s and 1960s was that the struggle for defense must be heard. It is a fight in which one must shell away layers from the social, economic, and political veneers that encircle the individual. A change in consciousness happens when women and men can examine the assumptions that make gender bias possible around the world. This lesson can be applied to the modern setting.

Wednesday, May 28, 2013 was Menstrual Hygiene Day. It is a day celebrated by governments around the world to ensure that women have a right to be free from obstacles and intrusions when it comes to their health. The day was considered out of the idea that, around the world, women face challenges when it comes to their period: the idea is Periods happen. They’re normal and women and girls have a right to continue going to school, working and maintaining their health and safety during menstruation.

Women’s Rights and menstruation are linked to one another. In places around the world such as Kenya, girls are forced into prostitution so that they can afford sanitary napkins. In other settings, women are denied access to hygienic care, which can lead to infection as well as health risks. Ensuring menstrual hygiene can be directly linked to issues such as education for women: “Girls’ right to education can be severely curtailed when schools lack bathrooms or clean water to manage menstruation or when students can’t afford sanitary supplies. This is a modern-day example of the consciousness- raising element that was inherent to the Feminist movement in the 1950s and 1960s. American Feminism was based off the idea that individuals had to question the male-controlled circumstances of the world around them and request modification as a result. The examination of menstrual hygiene and the political issues that surround it is an example of how a modern condition reflects the American Women’s Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s.

Another element of the 1950s and 1960s discussions of gender bias revealed how women are objectified. In many examples, women be being condensed to objects, deprived of their full voice and difficulty as a human being. The Feminist movement was important in illuminating a condition in which women were perceived as sexual objects, and not allowed to experience a full articulation of voice and experience. in California, 22-year-old Eliot Rodger, murdered six people in drive- by shooting fashion. At first glance, the event was a sad statement on the collusion between mental health issues and easy gun accessibility. Yet, when Rodger’s manifesto and YouTube videos emerged, it became clear that misogyny was a motivating force behind his actions. Some of his words speak to a condition in which women’s voices are silenced at the cost of male- created notions of power: “You will finally see that I am, in truth, the superior one.

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