Blog #4 Inequality and Women

This week in class we talked about inequality. Specifically inequality when it comes to jobs or treatment of different genders. For example men get paid a higher wage for the same job a woman would work. A single mother is more likely to live in poverty while raising her children. This is better known as feminization of poverty. The topic I chose to work with this semester was human rights. Being a woman does not mean you should be treated below what you are. The political systems around the world should not abase women because they are considered to be the “weaker” gender. Their strengths are just are in other areas that the men’s aren’t.  In the article “UN- Set Plan for Women, Children with Disabilities – IncludeDisabilities in Development Programs Worldwide”, women with disabilities face a heightened risk of physical and sexual violence because of limitations in physical mobility. In Northern Uganda more than one-third of 64 women with disabilities have experienced sexual or gender-based violence.  Discrimination against women with disabilities is big around the world;discrimination against women who are disabled is even more evident in countries such as France, India, Uganda, and Ghana. Although this article is more geared towards women and children with disabilities, it is a very good example of the mistreatment and inequality evident between genders and the lack of human rights. All humans no matter the race, or gender should be treated equally. Women and men should be valued equally and not put down or mistreated.  Women have struggled for years to have equality or at least some of the same rights as men. Today American women have achieved some equal status with men in some things but not all. In other countries as mentioned above, others are treated worse, some are exiled from homes, or abased through the government if they have disabilities, this having more so to do with them being women. Even people with disabilities have the right to be treated equally just as the rest of us no matter what they were born with or have acquired through the years. The need for Human Rights is for all humans to be treated equally and respected universally.  Women rather disabled or non-disabled around the world need to be treated equally and respected all the same as men around the world, because they are just a s valuable as men to the world.

http://allafrica.com/stories/201209121357.html