Women’s Need for Gender Specific Rights in Prison Since the foundation of modern prison systems in North America‚ prisons have always been specifically tailored to run and deal only with male needs. Due to that women were just thrown in with them creating co-ed jails‚ and not being properly taken care of. This only slowly started to change in 1873 with the opening of the first women’s only prison in Indiana‚ USA.(IDOC) Since it was adapted from the men’s prison no specific gender laws were enforced
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Violation of Women’s Rights in India Women rights are rights that are inherent to being Women. Human rights include the right to life‚ to security of the person‚ freedom from torture‚ freedom of expression‚ and much more. Everyone is entitled to enjoy these rights without discrimination. All women have the right to be safe and free from violence. In India women constitute nearly fifty percent of our population. Women are denied human rights from the cradle to the grave. In India the situation
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Women’s Rights Outline Introduction A. Background information Did you always think women and men always shared the same rights as today? B. Thesis Statement: Women’s rights need to be equal with men I. Women were always seen as the weaker sex A. Unable to perform work 1. Weaker than men and squeamish 2. Less educated than men. B. Types of jobs 1. Colonial America- became seamstresses or kept boarding houses. 2. Egypt-made families clothes‚ prepared food (grinding grain
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October 2010 A Wife‚ a Mom‚ and a Worker Women fought very hard for their rights in the workplace. Some of them‚ including Susan B Anthony‚ went above and beyond the norm. Yet‚ today our rights are still not the same as a man’s. At one point women weren’t allowed to work at all‚ and today they are allowed to have jobs while still being home makers. Although improvements have been made‚ there are still several dilemmas that need to be addressed. A women earns less than a man when doing the same
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Abolition‚ Women’s Rights and Democracy The second Great Awakening in the early eighteen hundreds was a widespread religious revival that greatly impacted society. Its influences that appealed to emotions rather than doctrine were greatly supported by reformers who sought to improve themselves as well as society’s ills. Of these reformers some movements began to form including movements for abolition and women’s rights. For example‚ a famous minister‚ Charles Grandison Finney of the Second Great
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The State of Women Rights in Pakistan by secondopinion02 Constitution of Pakistan guarantees the rights of women and do not discriminate in any sphere of life. The basis of Pakistani constitution is Islam; a religion that has secured the rights of women fourteen hundred years ago. In Pakistan; Mukhtaran Mai‚ Dr. Shazia and various other women have been raised internationally because of the corrupt character of our moth eaten justice‚ social and political system. In order to avail political
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equality between men and women is possible and reasonable as well because they are both human‚ with similar souls‚ brains‚ hearts‚ and the most of the rest of the body. In another sense‚ equality between men and women is impossible and an absurdity due to their natural differences in physical‚ mental‚ emotional and psychological qualities‚ and abilities. However‚ Islam tries not to differentiate the rights of women from the rights of men. In many instances Islam treats women as equals to men. Some
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: written by the eighteenth-century British proto-feminist Mary Wollstonecraft‚ is one of the earliest works of feminist viewpoint. In it‚ Wollstonecraft reacts to those educational and political theorists of the eighteenth century who did not accept women should have an education. She explains that women ought to have an education comparable to their position in society‚ demanding that women are fundamental to the nation because they educate its children. Instead
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Women have long been fighting for equal rights in every sphere of society. Land ownership‚ choice of marriage partner‚ and right to work or leave the house are a few of the basic rights that many men and women take for granted. Many nation-states have been reluctant to treat women as full citizens‚ entitled to the full array of civil and human rights‚ because they view them as incomplete national subjects . The issue of women being viewed as incomplete national subjects is three-fold; male-dominated
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There are many opportunities for women in the developed countries‚ but women do not get such opportunities in many underdeveloped and developing countries. There are almost equal economic‚ political‚ social opportunities for women in the United States while these opportunities are not available to the women of underdeveloped countries. Due to the socio-cultural exploitation of women‚ they are deprived of such opportunities in the region of underdeveloped countries. In order to get equal opportunities
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