Women's Rights
Are women governed by their own free will that is influenced by social conditioning or instinctively by biological destiny/identity or both? "To be or become a woman tend to be viewed as the effect of a social conditioning to be analyzed and overcome, rather than as a desire to be cultivated and offered for recognition; that of belonging to a different sex or gender that makes up half the human species." (Irigaray, 2001) Women are still being treated like second class citizens. I think in our day and age that women are acknowledged as being just as competent as their counter part males but are still considered lesser by society's social norms. Women legally have the same rights as men in the US and are supposedly treated legally equal but this is not universal. Each country, each culture has there own set of rules and laws applied to women's rights. The reality is that women are treated differently because of their gender. It's not to say it is always in the negative form......
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