The Rights Of Women

The Rights Of Women

Women form half of the human beings inhabiting planet Earth. Since human rights are the rights of all human beings, male and female alike, human rights are women's rights. By the same token, a society in which men are not willing to extend human rights to their mothers, the women who bore and nurtured them; their daughters, products of their own loins; and their wives, the women who bear and raise their treasured sons, is a society in which men are unwilling to extend human rights to men of another family, tribe, language, religion, race, ethnic tradition, or nation. If a society does not hold justice and equality for all women in the highest regard, neither will it hold justice and equality for the many varieties of men in high regard. In a very real sense, women's rights are the basis of all human rights. Women's rights belong to women as members of the human family, and, as such, are not dependent either on a woman's marital status or on the number or sex of the children she has borne.

From time to time, it behooves us to examine human rights in the special context of women's rights. Some, but by no means all, of women's rights, which are part of the rights of all human beings, both male and female, are listed below.

Since the primary responsibility of any society is to bear and raise future generations of male and female human beings, women's roles in reproduction must be held in the highest esteem and must not be permitted to become the basis for discrimination against women as women. Further, the responsibility for raising and nurturing future generations must fall upon men and women equally. Parents, male and female alike, have the right to guide the upbringing of their children according to the d...

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... national, and international non-governmental organizations, such as institutions to promote the arts, the humanities, and the sciences, professional societies, educational establishments, medical facilities, social services organizations, churches, synagogues, mosques, temples, and other religious organizations, sports clubs, legal and legal aide societies, self-help groups, co-operatives, and trade unions, and engaging in all group endeavors in both social and civic arenas of life.

Women have the same rights as men to equal access to service provided by her government, including, but not limited to, services in such areas as education, medicine, law, finance and banking, farm assistance, technical assistance, transportation, sanitation, electricity, communications, water, social support services, land redistribution, home building, and public sector employment.