Women Role and Right in society

Introduction

A woman was considered inferior to man. Man was given most significant place in the society whereas women were considered less valuable. Every third woman worldwide face and experience violence in her life because of the reason that she is a woman. Health sector is the place where the violence against women is the most and at its maximum. United States after Portugal and Poland have 41st rank for maternal mortality. The health impacts also include poverty and injustice (Bunch, 1990, 486).

Discussion and Analysis

1979 marked the year for bringing up a legal treaty known as Convention on the Elimination of the Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) which unfortunately have been by ratified by world's eight governments which also include US.

World conference on human rights in 1993 acknowledged human rights of women. After two years, the Fourth World Conference was attended by Lady Hillary Clinton calling women's rights equivalent to human rights (Amnesty, 1995, 45).

No international peace can be achieved unless and until women's rights aren't secured and they aren't provide a fair and peaceful life. Healthy women with peace at mind can become potential productive workers and active participants in the running affairs of the country if their rights are women. Healthy and empowered women can spread peace by raising and educating children. These are steps which go in favor of rights' fulfillment of women as well as of the society because an educated and peaceful woman can spread it to the children accordingly and in the long run would contribute in growth of social economies (Fraser, 1999, 853).

In the era of 1800's women were trapped in the sect of Domesticity. They were issued roles which comprised of being housewives and a good representative of society. Women were legally and socially considered unequal from ...