Fem-anger Unfold 016
Introduction
this article aims at clarifying the biggest query about feminists and their movements. actually what laws are feminist fighting for? It is rare today to find people who defend forms of violence against women such as gang rape, honour killings, and female genital mutilation, though defenders do exist in some places. The feminist theory is dedicated to changing women’s status through a rework of the law and its approach to gender. This include the Right to live free from violence and discrimination, to enjoy the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, to be educated, to own property, to vote, and to earn an equal pay.
National Domestic Laws/ Marital rape
Marital rape is a part of sexual domestic violence. Feminists are struggling for decades to get the violence of marital rape documented. Marital rape is a widespread problem. The National Health Service estimates that about 45 percent of all rape is committed by their partners. If the laws are not considering criminalising marital rape, this practice is subject to legal explanation and it is easier for people to continue judging it is not a sober crime. In 2013, Indian parliament reformed the law to criminalise marital rape, but only if the wife is under fifteen years old. Then, the Supreme Court ruled in 2017 that it is undemocratic to consent the marital rape of minors between the ages of fifteen and eighteen, thereby facilitating wives younger than eighteen to charge marital rape. The activists need the justice called for nationally criminalising of the crime regardless of age.
In India, they let off rapists from criminal penalties if they marry their victims. Feminists demand to take action against sexual harassment in the domestic space further.
Sexual Harassment Laws
Yet gender harassment often skirts below the legal radar, and some evidence suggests that gender harassment, but not other forms of sexual harassment, has increased since the #MeToo movement. How hard should society punish acts of violence against women? Many activists are using the criminal justice system and mechanisms of policing, and confinement to fight gender and sexual violence. It is critical to make out the manifold ways that women are violated and to punish serious crimes of violence and harassment. Sexual and gender violence and harassment are widespread in domestic and public spaces.
General Gender Equality
It is noticeable that in any commercial or political movies tend to have a group of men and one woman as they feel outnumbered when they have same number of women in the group. It’s completely unbalanced. I couldn’t understand why men feel outnumbered when there are equal numbers of men and women. These faulty perceptions are not only peculiarly off-base; they’re also hazardous for women in the society.
The body positivism
Media and advertising overwhelm us with figures of what an ideal woman looks like. She will be looking younger, whiter, and thinner with a good figure. There are so many filters, so women and girls are looking at unreal, unattainable images that are being sold as big goals. Body positivism is a major movement in feminism obviously. The feminists want women to feel comfortable in the bodies they have. The body positivity includes women’s clothing. It’s supposed to be sexy and feminine but not too much, and she needs to shave her legs, wear makeup and are endless. It’s not possible to reach all their expectation and rules. This should not be the base standard of a normal woman in the society, and women should have more liberty to wear what they want and express themselves as they want with or without makeup.
Workplace Rights
The workplace equality has been a big issue over many years. Womanly careers are those that primarily attract and employ women consistently pay less than more manhood careers. Careers that men once subjugated have a steady decline in pay as more women join that field particularly. Similarly, as more men join womanhood careers, those fields see a major raise in their salary. Why are women’s tasks valued less than men’s? If the employment is right enough to be employed, it’s vital enough to pay back it well. Feminists need equal gender pay across fields and industries.
Salary is just one area that needs improving. Ultimately, think about the leaders and the team managers across any fields like companies and industries. The findings would be that leaders and the team heads come professionals are devastatingly male. Usually women tend to achieve better in schools and universities than men; Even we would never find all that overachievement gone over the years? The feminists need more women in leadership roles and positions.
Field of Studies
Indian people must encourage women to study whatever the field that inspires and motivates them in personal without imposing parents’ mindsets. The feminists are fighting for the things that women should not be restricted to feminine detection. Even it’s perfectly upright for a woman to study nursing and literature they need to heads-up at all the fields they beyond can. In short, we are not somebody to allow any woman to study. we need to let them be like. And encourage them to study and work in whatever field they want, and those fields should pay women equally.
Media
In India, women are under-recognized across many fields. Women are getting unduly a little appreciation and credits for their efforts. Approximately for Oscars, only 1/8 of women are getting awards. In many fields, women are even nominated for those awards often. How many women-centric films are releasing in a year? Have you ever noticed? In films also the directors wanted to make the heroine die to get the second part of the movie. Why? In fact, Media impacts the way we think about the world and live our own lives, and seeing women onscreen on big roles, playing out women centric stories, is vital.
Science and Technology
Oftentimes, women are just pushed out of these fields, not of lacking of knowledge or awareness. In fact, women are just quietly put in into minor roles within the field. The feminists need more depiction in technical fields.
The Bad Sex
It is always considered as the bad sex when the pleasure gap hovering over the women’s sex. After all, even if one partner thinks the sex is great and the other thinks its bad, this still means bad sex. Sex has always been political for feminists. The bad sex is the outcome of the mere loss of respect towards women. Both the younger generation and the married couple are victims of the bad sex accordingly.
Pornography
Pornography merely objectifies women in N number of ways, and its usage perpetuates a culture in which the degradation of women is acceptable. Men who view pornography on a regular basis have an upper lenience for abnormal sexual behaviours. Ultimately women who view it can have more chances to develop a off-putting image of the body, particularly about themselves because they do not quantify up to the picture of that material. As already there are more restricted websites, feminists needs the younger generation to not to go into it for the welfare of the society.
Religious Traits
For decades, men are taking the religious traits for granted to the patriarchy in the society. These are what feminist fighting for. Because whatever the traits that are applicable for the married relationship are often results in the gender discrimination. It becomes problematic for the gender roles.
Christianity
“Wives, submit yourself to your own husbands as you do to the lord”-Ephesians 5:22-24
Meaning: Now as the church submits to the Lord, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
Islam
“The women should not deny her husband sexual pleasure for no genuine reason. She should not disobey him”
Meaning: She should not say ”NO” to the sex with her husband even when she is not okay to have it but you should give the proper and genuine reason for saying it. Wife has to be obeying in her life after marriage.
Hindu
In Bhagavat Gita, “sincerely serve your husband, behave well towards your husband’s family and take good care of your children”
Meaning: Wives should serve their husbands and they need behave well to their husband’s relatives and family and take care of their children.
In general, this approach makes conflict among the devotional activity and the material activity in the society. The religious traits are often proving that men should hold the entire primary power and predominant in roles. Historically the cultures have been patriarchal in its natural design. The feminists see these traits as they are getting into the nerves.
Conclusion
We still face inequality and unfairness. The stuffs and laws pointed out here are just some of what feminists are still fighting for. The #MeToo movement and Time’s up movement make obvious the feminism movements. Feminists are fighting to end sexual harassment in the domestic and public spaces as well as for the ample castigation of the perpetrators. They aim at women should not feel hazardous at their workplace. Feminists are still fighting to make certain the privileges of the individual, and to keep hold of the choices all women need. Feminists aren’t departing behind without a battle.
-Writer.jerl.
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