What have Women achieved in our world today? Have the lives of our sisters, nieces, mothers, grandmothers, and wives changed historically?
1. Women still are struggling to be paid a fair equal wage as their male counterparts receive. Whether in the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd World Nations sectors, Women are still struggling against prejudice, sexism, misogyny, and competition with their male countertops (Boys Club).
2. Violence towards Women continues to increase
a. Over a thousand women each year are burnt through backyard BBQ “accidents” in India & Pakistan annually. Men want their women’s dowries and wealth one way or the other. 🙁
b. Ritual and sexual mutilation continue in Africa
c. Prostitution continues to grow as a forced employer within most nations.
d. Human Trafficking of Women is far more profitable than men. Easier too.
e. Violence against women increasingly rose during the pandemic.
f. Violence of women against women became an uncommon phenomenon in schools. work and elsewhere.
The United Nations claims 155 nations are establishing legislation against violence against women, and 140 nations have legislation against harassment of women in the workplace. Many of these nations’ police forces find it difficult to apply their nation’s laws into action. Most police forces are staffed by men, men who find it difficult or are unwilling to apply laws of violence against women into practical actions. While domestic abuse incidents have substantial increases, arrests of violent actors remain low in many nations. Perhaps a vision of a man’s home is his castle, and his partner being part of his castle makes her a possession rule true in many national situations. Cultural bias and prejudices are allowed to flourish and even encouraged.
Present-day Iran is experiencing a revolution against violence, led by Women. The misogynist Iranian Administration reacts to this challenge by poisoning female students, throwing acid into their faces, and arresting and torturing these young women while terrorizing Iranian Female Activists throughout the world. In Afghanistan, Women have been refused the opportunity to achieve any real education or career training. In Africa, there are tribal customs that trade women as chattel and market objects. In many Middle Eastern Nations, female children are still married to aged men. Now to Saudi Arabia. A backward nation to be true, treating their womenfolk like possessions while applying backward religious customs likened to the 4th Century.
Women groups around the world cheer and celebrate the small advances of their fellow combatants, and yes there is a gender war going on. It has been going on ever since the moment men realized they can push their female counterparts around. Perhaps low in brain power, but fiercely stronger, men have classified, oppressed, and misused Women like forever. 3/4 of the Worlds male population can be and usually are prejudiced towards the fairer sex. In the 1st world, Women still face all the challenges of their less privileged sisters in the 2nd and third world, but they have to endure the subtle manner of their male counterparts in government, business, and socially. Talk about, study, and research equality, yet are they actually equal?
Are Women better off today? It depends on where they are located. Everyone wants to experience freedom, but equality of treatment, education, protection, services, and choices, now that’s another story.
Women who have achieved power have been manipulated, used, and dethroned by men every time. It seems that equality and power have nothing in common.
Steven Kaszab
Bradford, Ontario
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