Black women weren’t even allowed to keep their child even if they birthed them! White women and Black women were both struggling at gaining rights. During the early 19th Century women didn’t have the right to vote which created much frustration among women, they even weren’t allowed to run for the presidency just because they are a different gender. In the 19th Century men believed that women’s only job was to clean and cook for the family. Women in general back in the 19th Century didn’t have many rights, but Black women were definitely on the short end of the stick if you compared the rights between Black and White women.
The Discrimination against Women Identities Throughout history, female were considered lesser beings and nothing more than the property of their husband. In the short story, Blank Spaces by Joanna Cockerline, the acknowledgment of female being inferior creatures in comparison to men is highlighted. Struggle against misfortunes, Elizabeth is oppressed by the social inequality due to the fact that she is a girl. In Blank Spaces, the social inequality implied by the narrative severely impacts Elizabeth’s career hierarchy, character traits, and life experiences. Like many feminist writer, Cockerline focuses her emphasis on how social norm discriminate women by inhibit their job opportunities.
She became furious and she cursed the goddesses. The goddesses knew that she wouldn’t learn her lesson so they sent two other goddesses in disguise having a rough life, needing assistants to carry supplies back to their cottage. Deena ran across the goddesses in disguise, asking for help from Deena for her assistants to carry supplies Deena refused. She gave the rudest look and the rudest advice saying “ I they aren’t able to carry their own home supplies to their cottage that is only 20 feet away then don’t carry anything at all “. When the head of goddesses saw what Deena did.
Iran has strict rules for clothes that only women have to follow. In the novel,Persepolisshows the diversity of Iranian people and how religion can go too far, making people lives worse. The war with Iraq made things wicked. Many families decided to move on, and left Iran. While others decided to stay and suffer the cruelty on many aspects during the 1980s.
The assault on the status of women began immediately after the Taliban took power in Kabul. The Taliban closed the women’s university and forced nearly all women to quit their jobs. It restricted access to medical care for women, brutally enforced a restrictive dress code, and limited the ability of women to move about the city. The Taliban committed horrible acts of violence against women, including rape, abduction, and forced marriage. Some families resorted to sending their daughters to Pakistan or Iran to protect them.
The narrative made it clear that she didn’t fit in with the people in her town but feared leaving because that lifestyle was all she ever known. The no named girl didn’t fit in because she was smarter than all of her peers. Her desire to fit in pushed her to start skipping school with the others. She also intentionally failed. The ranch girl should considered her self lucky that she was an outsider because the people that she wanted to fit in with lives changed in the worst ways.
At this time, birth control as well as the discussion of sex in public was seen as a cultural taboo and depending upon where you were in the country, you could be arrested for speaking of it. A woman speaking in public about sex, reproduction, and birth control was shocking and unheard of. You were a sensation that scared and titillated the entire country. Many women even described you as that “reprehensible woman”. At the time, no one, often not even husbands and wives in the privacy of their own homes spoke of sex and intimacy in any specific way.
Nonetheless, gender inequality has evolved with the emergence of modernity in the society. Gender inequality is present in modern day society in areas such as the workplace, political as well as corporate arena. In Arab, countries such as the Middle East women are still perceived as the weaker gender; therefore, cultural and religious norms require them to be confined in their homes and give birth only (Nganga, 2011, p. 134). For instance, in Saudi Arabia women are not allowed to drive vehicles and cannot walk in public alone unless in the company of a man who must be either a husband or a father. Society does not trust women to take care of
What causes gender inequality in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia? Forced to wear the burka to being subject to polygamy. Being ruled by laws that forbid women to drive and work. Forbidden to leave the house without a male member of the family, Saudi women are the victims of severe gender inequality within their country. Most of us might blame the situation of Saudi women on a strict and intolerant religion, a lack of education or even a lack of awareness of Saudi women about their rights.
The development of religious fundamentalism caused many conflicts, some minor and others major. The Taliban which is one of the Mujahedeen groups that formed during the war are a religious dictatorship that believes they have the only right in interpreting the Holy book of Muslims. The Taliban believed in getting rid of anyone who had a different religious view including more scientific beliefs. Severe punishment including death was enforced upon those who did not follow the Taliban’s rules. The Taliban was also the cause for why women weren’t allowed to be educated thus leading to the Malala Yousafzai incident.