Women have rights, too
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Trusted Clothes (Unpublished)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2016
When I reflect on human rights, I can’t not think about international women’s rights. Women all around the world have rights to many things. This can include freedom from oppression. You can include a promotion of the recognition of current rights.
It can mean civil rights to food, housing, education, to the right to vote. I think these are all important. And I wish to express that these are very important things in the world right now because women have for most of history never had these.
I mean for a lot of recorded history. Women have been economically dependent upon men. I mean economics is the basis for currency and currency’s the basis for buying things. Money is the access point to most things in society. If it’s gonna be a car, then that means travel.
This can be a house, which means shelter. It can also mean socioeconomic status which is related to income. Especially in the current year of high university tuition prices, that can lock out women because they do not have as well-paying jobs as men.
That means their ability to gain access to education is worsened compared to men. If you look at the single parenthood rate, it is mostly women. There are more single mothers than single fathers. It is almost tautological to say this because it is so common knowledge. I think so.
Actually, the single motherhood rate is rising all throughout the world at a consistent rate. It does not seem to be slowing down. That means single parenthood, which is mostly women, is going to be increasing, and so the same for single motherhood rate. It’s going to be increasing.
And we are seeing extraordinarily promising trends, we are seeing glass ceilings go away for many, many areas. We’re also seeing problems for boys and motivation. But that’s different than ceilings. But the fact that more women are getting educated than ever before means that they can gain access to take their jobs at higher rates than ever before.
And jobs that were traditionally seen as less respect worthy are gaining more respect. I think of nursing. Most nurses are women. Also, the positions have a tremendous amount of respect and cachet in society are being taken by women such as medicine and law.
These are promising trends. Women gain the right to vote in the United States in the early 20th century. And the right to vote in Saudi Arabia in the early 21st-century. These are positive trends, but there is a lag time culturally for changes to happen for women.
A lot of this is tangled up with international women’s rights. Women’s rights are one of most important parts of societal development because if you take something that I’ll call a meta-metric for measuring women’s advancement comes from looking into the empowerment of women in each society. The more that women are empowered, then the more that the society thrives on every relevant measure.
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