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Women's Rights---what are your thoughts?
Posted by DrRick • 11/18/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: Blended Family, marriage, parenting, stepfamilies, stepfamily, stepmom, womens rights
A couple of weeks ago I had the privilege of meeting with an international delegation of women from Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Morocco and the UAE. These women are just beginning the fight for women’s rights in their countries. I was so impressed with their courage and determination in these countries where women are still seen and not heard. They have a long road ahead but are determined to have a better place in their society for themselves and their daughters.
The issues and concerns we face as women are not so different regardless of where you live.
Through the wonders of technology we are keeping in touch through Facebook. I am honored to have met them, wish them the best of luck and send them my support. What are your thoughts about this subject?
Carmen
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Blessings upon them. -
I think a lot of countries have a long way to go. The yardstick by which one judges the emanicipation of women, for instance (women heads of state). The first three were Golda Meire (Israel),Bandarnaike (Sri Lanka) and Indira Gandhi (India). Eaons ago. Pakistan has had one if not more. Bangladesh has had both a woman President and a woman Prime Minister. The atrocities against women continue all over the world.The subaltern woman cannot benefit from the latest laws or progress because she is illiterate or her life is too haphazard, has to be studied in a context apart. The U.S. still has to have a women's head of state in spite of literacy.
What I'm trying to say is that one model cannot work for the rest of the world, and the models have to be adapted to the country's cultural context. That is, apart from atrocities or violence, which is a human context. A woman who is living in a context where there is a household,not a nuclear family thinks differently. Why only women? Everyone in this complicated structure thinks as a part of a whole.
Having ruminated a lot on this subject, and having lived both in the East and the West, sometimes the issue especially on family matters becomes complex. I would suggest that you read some books by Sudhir Kakar (who found that traditional psyciatry or psychoanalysis was not adapted to specfically the Indian sub-continent, or Gayatri Chakravary Spivak and her studies on subaltern women. -
Even the so-called "first world" nations like America have a long way to go when it comes to granting women the full rights that create equality with men and an end to paternalism. Take a look at recent events and you will find that women in the "first world" have still not gained equality as expressed in being paid the same as men for work of equal value, and in terms of having the right to make their own medical and reproductive decisions.
Let's not forget that charity begins at home and charity means "grace". We don't see that "grace" being demonstrated by right wing religious people in the "first world". What we see is their determination to continue to dis empower and subjugate women as they have done for millennium.
Until equality is accomplished in the so-called "first world" nations, IMO it's less likely to be realized in the so-called "second and third world" nations. -
I think America has come a long way in regard to women's rights. I think that as a whole the world still has very far to come. I admire women in countries where female repression is so bad that they can't even speak their minds, let alone show their ankles. -
We've come a long way, and we have a long way to go.-
IMO our great grandmothers came a long way. Mine went to jail over campaigning for the vote for woman. IMO our grandmothers came a long way during the 40's when they demonstrated their "Rosie the riveter" skills and the value that they brought to the war effort. Sadly, since then we have not made as much progress as our ancestors did. After that a generation was exiled to suburbia with appliances, shopping and chauffeuring kids around to occupy their time. Many women did enter the work force and those that did found themselves being forced into functioning as super moms while their husbands did not pick up their share of household duties or child rearing duties either.
IMO patting ourselves on the backs today and saying we have come a long way because we have progressed more quickly than women in other countries are on this issue have, is just another example of the inertia that stems from either the vain glorious and/or complacent attitudes of American women today. And it's exactly that inertia that prevents us from mobilizing and achieving actual equality for women in "first world" nations and the world over. -
I agree with both these statements!
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What? Women are seen in Saudi Arabia? Since when? -
My generation of women have been able to get into the work force (which has it good points and bad) and have some say in things that were not possible in my mom's day or grandmother, but it was by their efforts that caused those changes.
I feel that in order for it to go any further we need to stop tearing each other apart and become united. I personally do not see any more major changes until that happens.
One thing about it when our grandmothers wanted changed they all agreed and worked towards it.. It is very hard now to get anyone to agree with anything!
I am happy to see these women join together to cause some changes where they live.. I applaud them!-
I am happy to see these women join together to cause some changes where they live.. I applaud them!
Think global - act local. I applaud them too.
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I applaud these women's efforts. They are on a long and dangerous path for the betterment of society - putting themselves at risk to create a safer world for their children and ours.
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My warmest wishes and support goes out to them. -
i would be very careful about what you say to them, the cultural and religious significance of women and their role in society is not something that will allow them to change over night.
it will be a generational change, as long as they are persistent they will get it but i warn outsiders not to engage this so whole heartedly, you may end up doing something you wish you hadn't...
Kudos to the brave and noble women defining what is right for them
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Women still are not treated as equals here. I think it's time we put an end to women's suffraging! Stop women's suffraging it the U.S!-
dude, suffrage is the right to vote, why would you want to stop that???
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It's the affect of IT you'll hate me for quoting Bushy but he's right, when people see freedom they want it. -
Suffrage has always been used in reference to the early 1900's when women fought for the right to vote but now eighty years later women still don't have equal rights under the US constitution, they are still fighting for them, isn't that suffrage?
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this process is long overdue, and i lift up my cap as a sign of honor to those women who has initiate the process of freedom from the slavery of the world which has relegate the women to the back ground, thereby denying them the right to equality of life and existence
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If you are a female; The most difficult critical men to talk to in the whole world are the first world American men. Aside from American egoism partnered with paranoia's. Women who fight and keep talking about their right as a woman of principality and ingenuity, undergo first physical combat lead most women to be subjected to domestic violence,likewise murdered or missing forever.
I don't think their is that women's right to be realized not unless these first world chauvinism of men in traditional ego against women will be at least be minded by legislation and should part of a state constitution of ethics of every country regarless of first world or 8th world in derogatory prejudice of so called men of first world in ressession..
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