Female Jurisprudence: - The importance of gender specific language in Legal reasoning. "Language matters. Law matters. Legal language matters.” Does not get any truer than this. Without language and linguistics one cannot communicate and without law the land would be lawless. You need some of jurisprudence and for that the letter of the law is the binding force and something that everyone has to agree on whether they like to nor not. Although amendments can be made as and when they see fit, provided that they have a reason and a good enough backing of different people. So much for the language and the law but what about the legal language or the language of the law or what we often even refer to as the letter of the law. One needs to have these in form of prepared so that everyone can use them and benefit from them and they are therefor protection and not for violation. That is why they are so concrete and detailed n nature and takes years of hard work to draft them. We as citizens should take it upon ourselves to do it as a duty to have a basic understanding about the law. We live in a rather male chauvinistic kind of a world, which is often dominated by the male partners and till not too recent past females were often afraid to make use oft the law to protect themselves. But now with the passage of time as the things have been changing for the good with the massive globalization of the world the overall stance is changing. Female lawyers are coming up and delivering and gone are the days when we used to see these females playing lawyers in the movies alone. It is an imperative task for feminist jurisprudence and for feminist lawyers as well as for anyone concerned about what impact of law has been, and will be, on the realizat...
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...y face an uphill task anyway and they need all the support they can get from within at least.Female laws for jurisprudence should be applicable to not only one place but there should be a universal law governing all of this. Females are persecuted and finally when they have the representatives then the time has come to make things easier for them and cutting them some slack. Law is a tricky business but it is very important and the more one exposes oneself to the law more knowledge one seeks. That is why the history of US shows that all the earlier and majority of the Presidents were lawyers by profession and did hard to make the nation what it is. Judiciary plays a very important role and now the time has come for females to work as part of the judiciary and work for their own uplift as well. References Britannica Encarta Grolier’s Encyclopaedia Washington Post
The Feminist Legal Theory closely looks at women and their position as legal subjects throughout history, and how these aspects have changed in regards to women as legal persons and the coorelating laws on gender themselves. The p...
The primary focus of the book was to give a manifest and latent demonstration of how the biased attitudes of society reflected the legal system, and vice versa. There were several issues that were discussed in the book, including abortion, infanticide, sexual assault, marriage, divorce, separation, child custody, seduction, rape, prostitution and labour legislation. Very early in the book it was made quite evident the struggles that women had encountered in their tough lives. It demonstrated their fight for the rights and privileges that many women of the world so commonly enjoy.
Imagine Kirsty and Marc, a young couple who resort to robbing a house in a desperate attempt to make money. They are caught, charged with the same crime and given the same sentence, except for one thing: the male dominant world we live in does not stop at the courtroom door. Marc is sent to a medium security prison one hour from his family with every opportunity to earn his way into a minimum-security facility. He spends his days learning to cook in the kitchenette and has access to basic necessities like aftershave or hairspray. Meanwhile, Kirsty walks into her frigid six-by-ten foot cell with bars for a door, a toilet in plain view and not a trace of sunlight. She is twelve hours from home with no hope of changing location since there is nowhere else to go. The stories of rapes, beatings and riots told by her new neighbours are endless. Kirsty realizes that the only way for her to survive this place is to oppose nature and forget what it is to feel. This is discrimination against women as they are penalized more severely than men for committing less crime. How can women strive for equality when they cannot attain justice in the justice system itself? The controversy over the gender bias goes beyond the "too-few-to-count" syndrome as Sally Armstrong calls it, it is a question of women's constitutional right to be treated equally.
Historically, criminology was significantly ‘gender-blind’ with men constituting the majority of criminal offenders, criminal justice practitioners and criminologists to understand ‘male crimes’ (Carraine, Cox, South, Fussey, Turton, Theil & Hobbs, 2012). Consequently, women’s criminality was a greatly neglected area and women were typically seen as non-criminal. Although when women did commit crimes they were medicalised and pathologised, and sent to mental institutions not prisons (Carraine et al., 2012). Although women today are treated differently to how they were in the past, women still do get treated differently in the criminal justice system. Drawing upon social control theory, this essay argues that nature and extent of discrimination
For a long time traditional liberal legal theory has struggled to win gender equality through the courts, but has not made the necessary gains. This theory advises women to change their relationship to the male power structure, and offers two ways in which women can do this to attain equity: the “sameness” approach and the “difference” approach. The first approach, “sameness,” suggests that women should stress male-female similarities. Traditional theory justifies this approach by saying, “to the extent that women are no different from men they deserve what (men) have” (33). Traditional theory advises women who feel different to from men use the second approach, and stress t...
Women’s equality has made huge advancements in the United States in the past decade. One of the most influential persons to the movement has been a woman named Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Ruth faced gender discrimination many times throughout her career and worked hard to ensure that discrimination based on a person’s gender would be eliminated for future generations. Ginsburg not only worked to fight for women’s equality but fought for the rights of men, as well, in order to show that equality was a human right’s issue and not just a problem that women faced. Though she faced hardships and discrimination, Ruth never stopped working and thanks to her equality is a much closer reality than it was fifty years ago. When Ruth first started her journey in law, women were practically unheard of as lawyers; now three women sit on the bench of the highest court in the nation.
The most related terms when women’s right is brought up are feminism and feminist. A feminist, by definition, is someone the fights for feminism. The definition of feminism, one the other hand, is very complex. Throughout history, the word has continuously had bad images and connotations thrown its wa...
One of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s primary goals of the Women’s Rights Project’s litigation was to prove that stereotypical treatment of gender under the law was unconstitutional. It was Ginsburg’s goal to make the Court realize that “the law’s differential treatment of men and women, rationalized as reflecting “natural” differences between the sexes, historically had tended to contribute to women’s subordination” (Ginsburg 11). Ginsburg carefully selected cases which she felt would produce the greatest results. To do this, she “pursue(d) a series of cases that illuminate(d) the most common instances of gender distinctions in the law (Ginsburg 14). In three cases, Reed v. Reed, Frontiero v. Richardson, and Craig v. Boren, Ginsburg was successful in arguing that legal distinctions on the basis of sex qualified as suspect classifications. Therefore the state must show a compelling interest in its legislation, and “must demonstrate that the means are necessarily related to the ends sought to be achieved by the statue and are the least restrictive” (Mezey 16). Today, it is debatable whether women are equal to men in the eyes of the law. However, without the Women’s Rights Project’s litigation of the nineteen seventies, women would be remain subjected to stereotypical legal treatment and thus would still be regulated to an inferior status of citizenship.
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Women’s Rights is known as a movement that is rich is history yet still impacts the present day. The movement began in the 19th century with women seeking to be treated as equal to men. The Women’s Rights Movement focused on social and institutional barriers that limited women’s rights – family responsibilities, limited educational and economic opportunities, and no voice in political debates. While it is written in history that the movement lasted from 1848 to 1920, much of the Women’s Rights Movement is still applicable today. While women’s rights now include the right to vote, women are still fighting for reproductive rights, the right to work for equal pay, and a greater voice in politics.
Since women have fought for a long time and proven their importance in society, they deserve the same rights as men. Before women can prove they too deserve the same rights as men, they must first put to rest the myths and beliefs of their status in this country. This myth of the female status in the United States, and in most other places in the world, has always been the same. It is the belief that women should be in the kitchen, taking care of the kids, and the house, amongst other beliefs. However, in today's society, this is considered ludicrous.
As we all know, women and men are different in their own distinctive ways. But together they make for a great partnership in the work field. Equality among men and women for the rights to coexist has moved our country in a new direction for women within the last century. The feminist movement was widely needed between 1848 and the 1920’s because women lacked the right to vote, among other things. Since women have been able to get to where they have been going within the movement, success for them has been greater than ever in modern times. But, there is always room for improvement in other aspects of equality. While we may never achieve perfect gender equality, there is still some injustices should not be overlooked. Women may be able to be
Throughout history, women have experienced great amounts of equality issues based on their gender. We have seen this in many different ways such as women were not able to vote, not allowed to work in military jobs, did not experience equality in the workplace, and many other ways. Women are not a numerical minority though they are a sociological minority, meaning that they are a group who are under a dominant group by education, employment, wealth, political power, and social status. Although women have received a lot of the rights that they did not receive in the past, they still are experiencing minority status to this day.
In the third place, how come men are not doing their best to help grant these women rights? They do not realize how once the conflict is resolved, the women will not bother them anymore. Men have been holding onto the rights of women for a lengthy period of time. They feel as though they are slaveholders owning not only these women, but their rights as well. Why is it in court, women have no rights, voices, or somebody to speak for them? In order to earn a respectable amount of rights, assistance from the men is a key ingredient through this long, strenuous
In the majority, cases are all about unfair and discrimination against women. Women bear the responsibility of doing housework no matter she has to work or not; Old and married women have less job and promotion opportunity; Women get a lower salary for same job; and there is occupation ceiling for women, they can hardly reach the high position in their working live. However, men are unequally treated to some extent in some cases, as what we presented in our previous pages, not all of them have paternity leave. Gender inequality and discrimination not simply affect the rights of both gender, they influence what they can get in society. More important is the influence on their mind and feeling. Inequality causes stress and anxiety. Laws help preventing the situation of inequality. And we think that education is more effective to solve the problem of inequality. We have to change our mind that men are the dominator of our world. Family, school and society should educate the new generation well. Although men are physically stronger, it doesn’t mean that they are more competent is every field. Therefore, both genders should be equally