Also in the civil war in Sri Lanka, the Tamil tigers forced women to take part in helping them, unless they were pregnant. In some cases the fathers made their daughters pregnant just so they would not have to go to war. This civil war contained 260 suicide bombings; this is the most number of suicide bombing recorded in any war. There were many cases in which pregnant women gave up their lives following orders. These stories are disgusting.
For example, in 1946, only 37% of petitions came from woman – barely half todays figure. The most common reason for a woman to be granted a divorce is the unreasonable behaviour of her husband. Some couples are more likely than others to divorce, those couples whose marriages are at greatest risk include those who marry young, have children before they marry or cohabit before marriage, and those where one or both partners have been married before. Divorce was very difficult to obtain in 19th-century Britain, especially for woman. Gradually, changes in the law had made divorce easier.
The New Right argue that the decline of the traditional nuclear family and the growth of family diversity are the cause of many social problems, such as higher crime rates and educational failure. They see lone-parent families as both unnatural and harmful, especially to children and they disapprove of mothers going out to work because they believe women should make caring for their family their first priority. Harry Benson’s (2006) analysis of data on the parents of over 15,000 babies born in 2000-01 found that nearly 3,000 of the mothers had become lone parents during the first three years of their child’s life. Robert Chester, also a New Right sociologist, recognises that there is a modern type of nuclear family called the ‘neo-conventional family’. He defines this family type as a dual-earner family in which both spouses go out to work.
Emma Willard opened a seminary for girls, in Troy, New York, in 1821. Her teaching methods were similar to ones used in the boys' schools, which horrified the parents. Yet clearly parents' disapproval did not stop the girls from wanting an education since from 1821-1872, 12,000 girls attended Willard’s school (Women in America). Once given the chance of an education, many of her students even went on to start their own schools. Yet after that, their was right to a higher education, such as a college.
Even though this was to help women get out of a bad marriage, Women would not have anywhere to go when divorced except to rely on another man, as most were not independent. By 1934 there were 37 divorces for every 100 marriages, while there were 154,000 abortions for every 57,000 live births in Moscow. This meant families and marriages were unstable. Under Stalin’s rule in 1936, the face of growing statistics in unstable families led the government to introduce new measures to strengthen family life. Divorce was made more difficult, abortion became a criminal offence except when it was necessary on medical grounds, and wedding rings were restored.
Power tended to lean more to the husband than the wife, since men could work professional jobs, along with taking care of the family. Muslims are considered one of the several “people of the book”, and follow the word of the Quran. The Quran clearly states that women should be treated with respect, but eventually Islamic custom ruled that out. Women in Islam, all throughout 600-800 CE, were not treated with much respect, as it was for most other cultures. Women were usually uneducated, and in the household, they were expected to raise children, cook, and clean.
Violence against women occurs in all societies and all classes, regardless of cultural and religious beliefs. Violence ranging in the forms of domestic abuse, rape, arranged marriages, and even female circumcision is committed every day worldwide. “Authorities believe, however, that at least one-quarter of women in the United States experience domestic violence at least once.” (Kramer) As a society it is our responsibility to condemn these types of acts against women universally and punish those to the fullest extent that commit such acts. More shelters, legal aid, and educational learning seminars in our educational system at an early age. Many countries refuse to acknowledge that women do have human rights and are protected under those rights
In many parts of the world rites of passage are set to announce that one has entered a new era of their life. Mutilation also known as female circumcision has been dated back to over 5000 years. Many people would argue that female circumcision is a violation of rights. This will be determined by examining its purpose to many cultures, the health risks and consequences as well as the personal rights of the women. Unlike the western culture, a woman who has participated in premarital sex is highly frowned upon.
I am strongly against abortion because it is murdering an innocent Child. Many people have the taught that abortion is a short, simple and clean process. Most women who have an abortion are sadder and depressed then women who don’t. According to the article an argument against abortion during the second trimester, there is ten times the chances of a miscarriage, three times the chance of a premature
The vast majority of Afghanistan's population professes to be followers of Islam. Over 1400 years ago, Islam demanded that men and women be equal before God, and gave them various rights such the right to inheritance, the right to vote, the right to work, and even choose their own partners in marriage. For centuries now in Afghanistan, women have been denied these rights either by official government decree or by their own husbands, fathers, and brothers. During the rule of the Taliban (1996 - 2001), women were treated worse than in any other time or by any other society. They were forbidden to work, leave the house without a male escort, not allowed to seek medical help from a male doctor, and forced to cover themselves from head to toe, even covering their eyes.