Women's rights are the rights and entitlements claimed for women and girls worldwide.
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Women's rights are the rights and entitlements claimed for women and girls worldwide.
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In some countries, these Women's rights are institutionalized or supported by law, local custom, and behavior, whereas in others, they are ignored and suppressed.
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Women's rights argued that women's main economic activity is that of safeguarding the household property created by men.
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Women's rights's then became subject to her husband's potestas, though to a lesser degree than their children.
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Women's rights were protected already by early Medieval Christian Church: one of the first formal legal provision for the right of wives was promulgated by council of Adge in 506, which in Canon XVI stipulated that if a young married man wished to be ordained, he required the consent of his wife.
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Women's rights inferiority appears in many medieval writing; for example, the 1200 AD theologian Jacques de Vitry emphasized female obedience towards their men and described women as slippery, weak, untrustworthy, devious, deceitful and stubborn.
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Women's rights's arguments won little support amongst contemporaries but his attempt to amend the reform bill generated greater attention for the issue of women's suffrage in Britain.
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Women's rights had improved after the rise of the Soviet Union under the Bolsheviks.
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Women's rights'story of women's rights in Australia is a contradictory one: while Australia led the world in women's suffrage rights in the 19th century, it has been very slow in recognizing women's professional rights – it was not until 1966 that its marriage bar was removed.
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Since nurses were mostly women, this improvement of the Women's rights of married women meant much to the nursing profession.
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The United Nations Development Programme states that, in order to advance gender justice, "Women must know their Women's rights and be able to access legal systems", and the 1993 UN Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women states at Art.
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Women's rights health refers to the health of women, which differs from that of men in many unique ways.
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Women's rights health is severely impaired in some parts of the world, due to factors such as inequality, confinement of women to the home, indifference of medical workers, lack of autonomy of women, lack of financial resources of women.
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The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights states at Article 3 that "The States Parties to the present Covenant undertake to ensure the equal right of men and women to the enjoyment of all economic, social and cultural Women's rights set forth in the present Covenant", with Article 13 recognizing "the right of everyone to education".
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Reproductive Women's rights are legal Women's rights and freedoms relating to reproduction and reproductive health.
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Reproductive Women's rights are often defined to include freedom from female genital mutilation, and forced abortion and forced sterilization.
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Reproductive rights are understood as rights of both men and women, but are most frequently advanced as women's rights.
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Under male dominated family law, women had few, if any, Women's rights, being under the control of the husband or male relatives.
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Regions where women's rights are less developed have produced interesting local organisations, such as:.
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