Question

- It is often easier to see manifestations of women’s oppression in cultures other than our own, since they don’t seem “natural” to us. However, as we have seen in class, for every issue we have located in “other cultures” we can find an analogous manifestation in the culture(s) of the United States that reveals a shared rootedness in patriarchal society. Offer and explain U.S. analogues to three of the following: stark division of gender roles, son preference, child marriage, and control of women’s sexuality.

-Discuss the origins of human rights discourse and the extent to which it has been applied (or not) to women’s issues we have discussed in class. Provide examples of how women’s lives (stories, issues, voices, ideas) continue to be "silenced" around the world.

- Family has been described as a “mythical haven.” Even though many of us find love and support among and within our families, statistically, it can be a dangerous place for women around the globe and in the U.S. How exactly is it “dangerous” in the context of women’s human rights? Why is it difficult to make motherhood, marriage and family “safe spaces” for women?

Answer 1

Gender roles plays a great role in our society, its a way in which how men and women are expected to be in a society,In USmens are assosiated with aggregation, dominance even today we give blue colour to boys, even from early childhood parents supply boys with gund and trucks etc., but girls are expected to subordinate, nuturing even they are given baby dolls when they are infants .

Son preference is overweighed by factors such as barganing power of females , but even now son preference is there among immigrants but there is no evidence of sex selection among natives now a days.

Child marriage can impact studies health and safety, but child marriage is legel in 48 states of US.

The orgin of human rights discourse is non binding declaration adopted by united national assembly during second world war.The human rights eliminates the discrimination agaist women in basis of their gender and protect women and their rights and give freedom from domestic violences and assure equal participation in career and education.

For instance, Malala yousafzai won nobel prize at the age of 17 , she was activist who fought for female educational rights at the age of 11 but she had gun shot while going to school from a gun man but she woke up and fought against it.

Family members usually impose harmful and discriminatory practises on women such as forced marriages, son preferences in family , abortion of girl child.

women may find discrimination in background of son preferences there is a domestic violence against women,they are facing problems in reproductive health issues.