Essays on Women'S Rights

In Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, both playwrights have shed light on the struggles women face to establish their place in the patriarchal society. While in A Doll’s House women finally triumph over patriarchy, in A Streetcar Named Desire, they…

Throughout history, women have been actively oppressed. This oppression is emulated from how society has been built on a patriarchy, which is defined as “A system in which power is in the hands of men and many aspects of women’s lives are controlled by men”…

Has anyone heard of Emmeline Pankhurst? Emmeline was born in Manchester, UK in 1858. She was the daughter of very forward thinking parents for their time, Robert and Sophia Goulden. Briefly, Emmeline was highly instrumental in forming the UK’s Suffragette Movement and in doing so…

For a long time, women have been not be recognized, and this has led to them raising their voices to make their grievances addressed. Women did not have the right to vote and were denied the powers. They used to live in a world dominated…

Introduction Feminism can be traced back to seventeenth century (Minitz, Close and Croci 2018, 77) with a common goal to achieve equality among both the sexes and this movement slowly spread all around the world with many different voices being raised time after time. From…

‘The control of women and babies has been a feature of every repressive regime on the planet.’ This statement by Margaret Atwood in her new introduction to the 2017 version of A Handmaid’s Tale rings true through two key themes, women’s bodies and reproduction, within…

Humans have come a long way from the ‘savages’ we read about in our books. They moved on into a more regulated and ordered society with the arrival of civilization which involved the formation of legal institutions and the monopoly of force by government. It…

“A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.” ― Gloria Steinem Sexism, in a layman’s words, is prejudice or discrimination based on a person’s gender. Unfortunately, it is spread quite vividly amongst today’s generation; whether it is on…

This year, I again watched my phone buzz with headlines that Anukreethy Vas has been crowned the new Femina Miss India 2018 just a year after Manushi Chillar won the ‘prestigious’ crown and then went on to make our country proud by striking gold at…

Women’s right was not taken seriously in the United State in the nineteenth century. There were not many important roles for females in literature and plays at that time. Until the early twentieth century, several prominent female literary figures appeared. The female characters in “Trifles”…