Essay On Women's Rights Violations
Women's Rights fall under so many different categories, we as woman have fought hard for our rights. Women’s rights are still violated today and this is a big issue, Actual or Perceived Sexual Identity, Violence against women in custody, Domestic violence
Sexual identity is a big issue for very many men and women; so why are woman targeted more than man for their sexual identity? Sexuality is regulated in a gender specific way and maintained through strict restrictions. The community which can include religious institutions, the media, family and cultural networks, regulate woman who appear “to masculine” women who try to freely express them their rights. It is proven that women who perceive to be lesbian, experience abuses by state authorities in prisons, by the police, family, and community. Many cases also show that lesbian women are being beaten, raped, forcibly impregnated, or married; theses are normally done by family members to punish them and “correct” their sexual identity. Also, many jobs have been find to not hire lgbt women and are creating other excuses of why not to hire them.
Not only is sexual preference a …show more content…
big deal but women in custody is another arising issue.
Women that are taken into custody are normally mistreated in many ways. The power between inmates and guards is a result of prisoners’ dependency on officers and other guard's’ ability to withhold privileges, this is a manifest in direct physical force. Incarcerated women are largely invisible to the rest of the community, little is done when the punishment of inmates is compounded with rape, sexual assault during body searches and even during childbirth. Women are often providing sex of “favors” like extra food, shampoo, paper, or avoiding punishment. There are little medical and psychological care available to inmates. Many women in jail and prisons are being denied the access to feminine product for humiliation in the jails. This is happening all over the states and also other countries. Menstrual cycles are not things that girls can control so not give women the necessities that they need to stay clean is almost a torture. Not only is it humiliating but this is can lead to very big health issues.
Not to mention domestic violence that this matter can lead to, as domestic violence can take place nearly anywhere.
Domestic violence is a huge issues among many woman weather it is known or not. Studies show and according to SafeHorizion.org 1 in 4 women will expirence some type of sexual or physical asult during her life time. SafeHorizon also shows that more than 60% of domestic violence happens at home; more than 4 million experience physical assault and rape by their partners. Domestic violence doesn’t affect just women many children witness their mother, sister, grandma.. Ect being assaulted. Domestic violence not only physically and mentally harm women but children that grow up seeing domestic violence happening are 15 times more likely to do it is they become adults.
Then, to top that off the country that claims to support women’s rights and be free and equal surely is not.
Women’s rights are violated everyday all around the world, but the country that claims to be the freest one isn’t so free after all.
In the article “Women’s Rights Violated In America” Most of the rights that are violated are acts of violence and big enough violations that are not taken care of. This article shows that the world has come to controversy over small things that often lead to acts of violence and other unreasonable acts. While in California Robin Levi found that the women that were incarcerated were sick and poor living conditions. Levi finds that in the California prisons system in which colored women have experienced increased levels of sterilization through hysterectomies, ovariectomies and other methods. These things are not decided by the women themselves the prison system decides on whether the sterilization happens or
not.
Violence against women is a global pandemic; a woman’s greatest risk of violence is from someone she knows. Domestic violence is a violation of a women's rights to physical integrity.
Sexual identity is a big issue for very many men and women; so why are woman targeted more than man for their sexual identity? Sexuality is regulated in a gender specific way and maintained through strict restrictions. The community which can include religious institutions, the media, family and cultural networks, regulate woman who appear “to masculine” women who try to freely express them their rights. It is proven that women who perceive to be lesbian, experience abuses by state authorities in prisons, by the police, family, and community. Many cases also show that lesbian women are being beaten, raped, forcibly impregnated, or married; theses are normally done by family members to punish them and “correct” their sexual identity. Also, many jobs have been find to not hire lgbt women and are creating other excuses of why not to hire them.
Not only is sexual preference a …show more content…
big deal but women in custody is another arising issue.
Women that are taken into custody are normally mistreated in many ways. The power between inmates and guards is a result of prisoners’ dependency on officers and other guard's’ ability to withhold privileges, this is a manifest in direct physical force. Incarcerated women are largely invisible to the rest of the community, little is done when the punishment of inmates is compounded with rape, sexual assault during body searches and even during childbirth. Women are often providing sex of “favors” like extra food, shampoo, paper, or avoiding punishment. There are little medical and psychological care available to inmates. Many women in jail and prisons are being denied the access to feminine product for humiliation in the jails. This is happening all over the states and also other countries. Menstrual cycles are not things that girls can control so not give women the necessities that they need to stay clean is almost a torture. Not only is it humiliating but this is can lead to very big health issues.
Not to mention domestic violence that this matter can lead to, as domestic violence can take place nearly anywhere.
Domestic violence is a huge issues among many woman weather it is known or not. Studies show and according to SafeHorizion.org 1 in 4 women will expirence some type of sexual or physical asult during her life time. SafeHorizon also shows that more than 60% of domestic violence happens at home; more than 4 million experience physical assault and rape by their partners. Domestic violence doesn’t affect just women many children witness their mother, sister, grandma.. Ect being assaulted. Domestic violence not only physically and mentally harm women but children that grow up seeing domestic violence happening are 15 times more likely to do it is they become adults.
Then, to top that off the country that claims to support women’s rights and be free and equal surely is not.
Women’s rights are violated everyday all around the world, but the country that claims to be the freest one isn’t so free after all.
In the article “Women’s Rights Violated In America” Most of the rights that are violated are acts of violence and big enough violations that are not taken care of. This article shows that the world has come to controversy over small things that often lead to acts of violence and other unreasonable acts. While in California Robin Levi found that the women that were incarcerated were sick and poor living conditions. Levi finds that in the California prisons system in which colored women have experienced increased levels of sterilization through hysterectomies, ovariectomies and other methods. These things are not decided by the women themselves the prison system decides on whether the sterilization happens or
not.
Violence against women is a global pandemic; a woman’s greatest risk of violence is from someone she knows. Domestic violence is a violation of a women's rights to physical integrity.