Women Struggle throughout history to become equal as men

Introduction

The main purpose of this paper is to make discussion on the history of women's struggle to become equal as men. Since a decade, women are trying to make a special position in the world, and trying to get the equal rights as men. It is still visible in today's workforce that women are trying their best and making their all efforts to become equal as men.

Discussion

Women are fighting and struggling for the equal rights since a long history. It is obvious that women do not get their equal rights in any field of work. From the household to the education or workplace, women are suffering from the unequal treatments and work life balances (Bernstein, 50). In 1789, women have claimed the right to primary education, the right to work, the protection of the law for abandoned women and unwed mothers, the right to health (the right to experienced midwives), the reform of marriage and the right to divorce, access to citizenship. Achievements of the Constituent Assembly, the Convention keeps little and what it gives, as the protection of unmarried mothers, has suppressed by the Napoleonic Code.

Feminism is a movement run by women in order to get the equal opportunity. It is a social movement that advocates the emancipation of women to achieve equal rights with men. It arose from the French Revolution and became an extraordinary boom in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century's, especially in the U.S. and the UK, focusing on the petition of the right to vote (Yarbrough, 48).

In 1791 Olympe de Gouges declared the "Declaration of the Rights of Woman and Citizen" and in the second half of the twentieth century have highlighted the contributions of Betty Friedan (American feminist) and Simone de Beauvoir (French writer). In general, this movement focuses on the critical feminism inequality between the sexes and promotes the rights and interests of women. Moreover, a large majority of feminists accept or seek the support of men.

Feminism has produced diverse changes in Western society, from women's suffrage, political rights, equal employment rights to seek divorce, the right of women to control their own body and to make medical decisions (including abortion), and many others. However, many feminists argue that more needs to be done, since there is still an imbalance in social and labor (Webb, 110). Today's protests have their basis on feminist liberation movements of women. They occur mainly in the advanced countries of the northern hemisphere. In developing nations the feminist movement, which is sometimes repressed or clandestine, involving only a few well-educated women who are distant from the reality of rural women are illiterate or urban poor.

Women represent 85% of recipients of the minimum pension. The average unemployment rate is 9% for women against 8% for men. Positions of responsibility remain usually reserved for men. In the civil service, women hold only 15% of management jobs and 17% in the private sector. With 18.5% of women in the Assembly since 2007, ...