Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women Article 10(f), 10(g), and 10(h)
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): The Good Men Project
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2018/07/23
Article 10 States Parties shall take all appropriate measures to eliminate discrimination against women in order to ensure to them equal rights with men in the field of education and in particular to ensure, on a basis of equality of men and women: (f) The reduction of female student drop-out rates and the organization of programmes for girls and women who have left school prematurely;(g) The same Opportunities to participate actively in sports and physical education;(h) Access to specific educational information to help to ensure the health and well-being of families, including information and advice on family planning.
Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (1979)
The CEDAW is a document devoted to the equality of the sexes in the form of an eventual objective of the total elimination of discrimination against women. The point is to set a goal and then go about accomplishing it, especially with the countries that have ratified the document including Canada. The tenth article is a large set of stipulations about equality in education.
For the women who are looking for equality with the men in their lives – and for the women who have not even thought about it, Article 10 is intended to support you. Article 10(f) is the next one is the listing, which covers a number of rights including the more unfortunate circumstances of when a young woman drops out of university. It can be a tragic thing, but it can be something rectified or ameliorated on a statistical level.
Especially with conventions such as the CEDAW, there is an explicit emphasis on the need for the reduction and elimination of the historic and ongoing discriminations against women merely for being women. These amount to long-term and deep history impediments to women’s gender equality with the men of the world. The questions about Article 10(f) come from the open statements for the reduction in the drop-out rates.
Those people who would not be able to do as well in the educational realm, but those in whom the desire and motivation exist for education. The barriers to women in education coming from the community and the family can be tremendous in a number of countries of states in the world. It is unneeded and a travesty to both and the health and well-being, and intellectual, fulfillment of those women but also in the full development of those countries.
The purpose of education is not for citizenship but for the development and informing of a critical mind of an individual human being for no matter where they are in life. Much of education is social control and training for conformity. However, it also has another benefit in the development or the potential for the development of an individual into a more fully fleshed out human being.
In the restrictions in education for women, there is one problem. But then there is the other problem, that being the dropouts for women due to pregnancy, religious enforcement, male preventative measures including physical coercion, and so on.
According to the CEDAW, there should also be efforts to prevent women from being forced out of the educational world due to having to leave early for a variety of reasons. Some women need to leave because of bad sex education and lack of reproductive health access. Those girls and young women can get pregnant prematurely and then be forced into a false dichotomy between the birth of a child or education.
If in conservative, traditionalist, and highly religious area of the world, this can then lead into a decision not for education but for livelihood and respectability within the community for the women. In some ways, these women become forced to drop out of education and not due to talent or conscientiousness lack. Article 10(g) speaks of the sports and physical education aspects of education.
If the individual woman or girl is unable to acquire the same access to the physical education and sports, then this violates Article 10(g) of the CEDAW. It is important to note. That even in the idiosyncratic world of sports and physical education: women deserve the same rights to access and opportunities as the men, full stop, period, and then exclamation point.
In Article 10(h), we see the creation of an integral aspect of a women’s, and an adolescent girl in some cases, health, and well-being. The areas of the future generations of a society with family planning and the well-being of families. As it states, there should be access to specific educational information to help ensure the health and well-being of families, which include the information and advice on family planning.
It becomes an important aspect of the need to develop a holistic – in a concrete, naturalistic sense – perspective on the nature of the health and well-being of an individual woman through proper, empirical, and rational education about the nature of what does and does not make for a healthy family, and what does and does not make for good advice.
In particular, and duly note, the emphasis is on both the access and the specificity of the educational information needed to fulfill the requirements of the stipulations in Article 10(h). That is, if a woman or girl is to have a proper education, then the access to a complete and comprehensive educational regime on family planning, health and well-being and families, and, by implication, women’s and girls’ health, then the societies bound to this document need to work hard to incorporate these into the educational regimens for women and girls.–One can find similar statements in other documents, conventions, declarations and so on, with the subsequent statements of equality or women’s rights:
- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the Preamble, Article 16, and Article 25(2).
- Convention Against Discrimination in Education (1960) in Article 1.
- The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966) in Article 3 and Article 13.
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966).
- Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (1979).
- Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (1984).
- The Declaration on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (1993).
- Beijing Declaration(1995).
- United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000).
- Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children (2000).
- The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa or the “Maputo Protocol” (2003).
- Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence or the Istanbul Convention (2011) Article 38 and Article 39.
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