Globalization has improved the quality of life for women all around the globe. The expansion of western factories into underdeveloped countries and the increasing concern for international human rights exhibited by a variety of international institutions and organizations have improved their status greatly. Women are often the most marginalized individuals within a community, and sexism affects all aspects of their lives. Globalization has helped feminists to ease the oppressions faced by women by allowing them to together to fight in solidarity within international organisations. Women in underdeveloped countries have benefitted from new employment opportunities provided by Western factories expanding into new markets. This allows women to …show more content…
Women face oppression all around the world, and when states infringe upon the human rights of their people, women in particular are left with very little power. The firm establishment of human rights within many states is improving the quality of life of many women. As outside states increase their investment in the world population, the probability of humanitarian interference rises. Even without direct intervention the scrutiny of outside states can have a dramatic effect on the actions of a state. A state leader is aware that any abusive action they take against their population will be noticed and criticized, and in extreme cases, might even be acted upon by outside states. This puts pressure on the state, encouraging it to change oppressive laws. As legal gender equality becomes more of an international expectation, states are feeling increasing pressure to adopt equal-rights laws. This is helping to empower women, as laws which favor men often put them at the mercy of the men in their lives. For example, there are countries in which only men have access to obtaining a passport, and others still in which a woman cannot legally prosecute a man for rape. These laws are certainly not endorsed by the international human rights regime. Therefore, states continuing to conform to the human rights regime and adopt equal-rights laws are drastically improving the lives of
corporate powers take advantage of third world countries for their women. These women are subjected to horrid working conditions. The women work long hours with small amounts of sleep, food, and water. Multinational companies like the United States build production plants in third world countries to increase production inexpensively because they don’t have to pay greedy Americans. The women around the world working in production plants are dehumanized. For the rest of their lives they will only know how to work in hard labor. Hard labor doesn’t have to be physically taxing; it can also be mentally taxing. Jobs like bar girls, prostitutes, and hostesses are mentally taxing on these women. Pleasing other men every night for only their pleasure just to make ends meet does not bring positive thoughts to a woman’s mind. Third world women deserve equal rights just like the women in first world countries. Corporate powers will no longer take advantage of these women if one takes a stand against
As a result of this norm, more feminists who recognize the “systematic disadvantage” (Cahill 206) that women face daily in other countries is the reason why many feminists believe governments should oppose typical gender roles and gender stereotypes by protecting the rights of women. However, culture is always subject to change thus, leading developing countries who have neglected the rights of women to improve due to the global influence of other countries who have gender equality. This, in turn, leads countries to be “forced” to accept feminist agendas who “hold[ing] these patterns… to change them, and thus to change the realities that they produce” (Cahill 208). Not only does gender affect social issues but it also has progressed onto the economic sector for business as well, making gender a multifaceted topic for any
There are two main problems which afflict non-western women. The first is the lack of access to productive resources. This means that the women of less developed countries have no capability to possess resources such as land, capital or skills. Land is not available to them because it is considered a male inheritance only. Capital is more accessible than land, due to the recent ability of women to own credit cards. Until recently, though, money was not something women could obtain very easily. Money, like land, is mostly controlled by the males of the society. Skills are not an option to women because it entails schooling which brings up the next difference.
“Poverty and exploitation of women in Latin America can never be alleviated because they are rooted in machismo,” meaning that because of the way society was run in Latin American, women can’t advance from the ancient state of mind that they belong in the private sphere and should stay there, because only men are good enough to be out in the public sphere. The reason why society was run in this manner, was because of the machismo feeling engraved in the minds of men and, in some cases, women in society. Alicia, Carolina, and Nancy don’t really have any other choice, than try to survive on their own by doing acts that are not “approved” by the society they live in. Even now, because of their actions, we could even disagree with the way they decided to approach their situation, because even now a day, we could think that selling one’s body or being involved in “off the book”
Nothing simply begins. Everything needs something else in order to develop and live continuously. Fire needs wood to burn, water needs heat to boil, and the women’s right movement needed abolition to begin the real fight. The women’s rights movement of the nineteenth century emerged out of abolition activism because it was not until after abolitionist groups formed and began fighting slavery that women began to realize they had no rights themselves and began their own fight.
“Let it be that human rights are women’s right and women’s right are human rights once and for all.” These were the words that changed the course for women’s rights. On September 5, 1995, everyone at the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing heard these words uttered by- then First Lady- Hillary Clinton. The conference was, “the biggest United Nations conference ever held,” (Otto), and it was, “a call for equality… by half the world’s population… a challenge to change the course of social and economic development in a direction that places people- and women- firmly at the centre of analysis and objectives,” (Moghadam). The speech that Clinton gave completed the challenge and more, by persuading everyone, in the audience and all over the world, with anaphoras, strong emotional diction and the three persuasive appeals, she altered the history of women’s rights for the better.
In conclusion, women around the globe have come a long way. Societies across the world are recognizing that women are valuable and important to societies. Unfortunately, there are still many societies across the world that wants to keep women down. The women of these societies should not be abandoned and forgotten because they are across the globe. Women from the other countries need to remember how far they have been able to come and reach out to support the oppressed women. As Dr. Martin Luther King would say, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
Class this semester was widely based on the ideas and problematic events in which revolve around the idea of globalization. This term, idea, or concept poses many negativities to the gender of women. Despite the media and the common portrayal that the idea of globalization is a positive thing for the world, in many instances it is causing great negativity for people, specifically women. Globalization can be applied to many aspects of culture but many times it is applied in terms of economics. In the patriarchal world in which exists when speaking about economics it is typically a male centered conversation due to the males typically being in lead roles of the work force despite many women in this country and well across borders in other countries being very highly educated and capable of carrying out such jobs. Many of these women who seek to be educated and successful in the workforce do not achieve their goals and fall back into their gender roles which goes against their personal goals. This was demonstrated very well by the case study of “Clashing Dreams: Highly Educated Overseas Brides and Low-Wage U.S. Husbands” written by Hung Cam Thai. Not only are these brides in which are talked about in this essay failing at their personal goals they are also failing at the goals in which Estelle B. Freedman discusses in her book No Turning Back. In this work she speaks much about transnational feminism and the objectives in which much be met to obtain equality rights for women transnational. The link between Freedman’s work and the study of Vietnamese brides marrying transnational is undeniable not for positive outcomes but for negative. By linking these two works not only will it show what needs to be done for women to obtain equal ri...
Treaties are the highest source of international law besides jus cogens norms that have binding effect on the parties that ratify them.2 International human rights treaties rely on the “name and shame” mechanisms to pressure states to improve practices.3 However with “toothless” international human rights norms, moral coercion is not always effective. An empirical study conducted by Professor Oona Hathaway assessing the effect of human rights treaty ratification on human rights compliance, maintains in its findings that ratification of human rights treaties has little effect on state practices.4 States do not feel pressured to comply and change their practices, rather, signing treaties is “more likely to offset the pressure rather than augment it.”5 So, is it time to abandon human rights treaties and remit protection of human right to domestic institutions. Hathaway posits elsewhere that despite this treaties “remain an indispensable tool for the promotion of human rights.”6 Instead of getting rid of the treaty system, it is necessary to enhance the monitoring and enforcements mechanism to strengthen the human rights regime to ensure compliance.7 This article evaluates the extent to which international law serves as a useful tool for protection of human rights.
...action with others… especially men. This supplies final substantiation of the authors' argument, that women continue to be oppressed by their male-dominated societies. It is a bold undertaking for women to ally and promote a world movement to abandon sexist traditions. Although I have never lived in a third world or non-Westernized country, I have studied the conditions women suffer as "inferior" to men. In National Geographic and various courses I have taken, these terrible conditions are depicted in full color. Gender inequality is a terrible trait of our global society, and unfortunately, a trait that might not be ready to change. In America we see gender bias towards women in voters' unwillingness to elect more females into high office, and while this is not nearly as severe as the rest of the world, it indicates the lingering practice of gender inequality.
Achieving roles for women that are as equal as men, before and during the twentieth century, appeared to be inevitable in the United States. Women were limited to domesticity, performing duties that only serve their families as wives, mothers, and diligent daughters. Women were absorbed and accustomed to these standards, oblivious to their worth and capabilities that are above and beyond their set domestic duties. “Groups of women challenged this norm of the twentieth century and exceeded their limited roles as domestic servants by organizing movements whose sole purpose is to achieve equality within a male-dominated society” (Norton
A Feminist Contribution to the study of Security in International Relations Under the International Relations(IR) model rests, a major focus, security. There are different theories on how security should be perceived. The majority defines security as the protection of the state. However, the Feminist method values security in the form of human interest over the state’s and also recognizes gender concerns within International Relations. The Feminist theory gives a very different perspective with various strengths but also holds weaknesses.
Throughout this essay it will be discussed how female representations affects society, what has changed, if has changed during the years. Representations of women were a crucial subject of discussion especially in the concepts of the gaze that often refers to women as objects of the active gaze. The gaze establishes relationships of power, representing different codes such as dominance and subjugation, difference and otherness (Sturken and Cartwright 2009: 111).
Women’s rights are an important factor in understanding global well-being. Although a treaty was endorsed by the majority of the world’s nations a few decades ago, numerous issues still exist in most aspects of life, despite many successes in liberating women. It is an unfortunate case, how women are paid less than men, yet work more; throughout their lifetime, gender discrimination negatively affects girls and women; and women are often the ones who are in a state of poverty. It is a common misconception to think that women’s rights only exist in countries where religion is a law. Similarly, some individuals might think that the rights of women are an issue no more. Unfortunately that is not the case. Today, gender bias continues to
Women account for more than half the world’s population, perpetuating the notion that gender equality is the center of human rights. In 1945 under influence of the United Nations Charter, world leaders adopted the fundamental principle of equal rights of men and women. It is the State’s obligation to protect and promote women 's human rights. Yet millions of women around the world are consistently exposed to unjust inequality and discrimination. While there are still laws and policies that prohibit women from equal access to land, property, and housing; economic and social discrimination will continue to result in fewer and poorer life opportunities for women, rendering them vulnerable to trafficking. The effects of gender-based violence