Sexual Slavery throughout the World

Introduction

The topic under study relates to sexual slavery. It involves exploration of how gender violence differs in social category amongst men and women. The topic discusses gender as a fundamental variable in discussing sexual slavery. The topic involves statistics, reason for sexual slavery being a social problem, role of gender and measures that can be taken to change or stop the violence.

Discussion

Sexual Slavery

The sexual slavery, which is one of the biggest violence of human rights, has increased rapidly in today's environment of increasingly connected networks and ease of travel. It exists in almost every country of the world. The inequality of women and girls in society, however, manifests itself in more gender-specific push and pull that facilitate the sexual slavery. Another reason might be that community may lack overall job and education opportunities; the group that is most likely to have the least opportunity is women and girls. In too many areas around the world, families with limited resources are more likely to send their sons rather than daughters to school. Cultural notions of women's roles may limit their economic opportunities.

Women and girls are more likely to face discrimination and other barriers to employment. Other push factors that are more specific to women and girls are domestic violence and sexual abuse. The UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) has estimated that one in three women throughout the world will be a victim of violence, whether it is rape, assault, or slavery. Victims of sexual slavery may see the promise of a new life as a way out of the abuse. Girls who are sexually abused at home are more likely to run away and become homeless, where they are more vulnerable to slave (Allen & Wall, 1993, p.156). People in conflict and post conflict areas who are displaced are especially vulnerable to slave. Here too, women and girls are disproportionately affected as they become vulnerable to both criminals and also, as has been widely reported, to some peacekeepers and other humanitarian workers.

Gender Violence

A number of studies explore that the most common form of adult domestic violence is men's violence against their heterosexual female partners. Although theorists acknowledge that domestic violence is perpetrated by women against men and by partners in gay and lesbian relationships, theories contend that the structure of gender inequality makes women in heterosexual relationships particularly vulnerable to control and coercion by their husbands or boyfriends.

Theorists in the radical tradition propose that domestic violence is a tool used by men to maintain women's subordinate position within the family and within society. Theorists argue that violence against women that is perpetrated by husbands or boyfriends is similar to the violence against women that is perpetrated outside of intimate relationships, such as sexual harassment and stranger-perpetrated sexual assault. Liberal theorists emphasize that women are vulnerable to domestic violence because of their consignment to domesticity and economic dependency on men, which is due to occupational sex-segregation and wage discrimination by sex. In addition, liberal feminist ...