Woman Rights and Gender Issues

Woman right and gender issues

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Importance of women rights........................................................................................................3
Factors contributing towards identified issues............................................................................3
Reflection.....................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

Importance of women rights
Gender discrimination has always been an part of society where males are provided and
higher position than compared to females, like in early times females at UK were not allowed to
vote in elections and also they were not allowed to work for earning. This can also be seen in
present times when there are some field where females are not allowed to work and there are also
several factors which are affecting women rights in the society. Following are several static
background factors which are affecting women rights.
Violence against women-
Women often faces domestic violence in which in most of the cases they are brutally
tortured by the male members and because of which the united nation has made series of
considerations on this topic. This case of domestic violence has increase in the present time of
COVID-19 because lockdown, this has forced government to pay high interest in improving
female condition (Human right watch, 2020).
Forced marriage and slavery-
The society where we live in is a male driven society in which females are often forced to
marry a person against their will, through this they are facing lack of trust issues and have to live
in a threat of getting betrayal. In some cases women also have to face slavery which is a complte
violation of human rights. Cases of forced marriage alone in London were 1,764 in 2018 and is
still increasing in present time (Elks, 2019).
Human trafficking
Not only that women have to face human trafficking as well in which they are smuggled
and sold in market. This can be either for their physical appearance or use of body parts for
illegal smuggling. This is one of the major concern the governments all across the globe and high
level comities are also formed in order to remove this human trafficking (U.S. department of
State, 2020).
Factors contributing towards identified issues
There are several factors which are affecting women rights in UK, these issues arises at
different places with circumstances. Following are factors which are causing gender inequality
and affecting women rights.