100 Years of International Women’s Day: Russia was the Pioneer of Women’s Rights

83% of girls in the USA experienced some form of sexual harassment in public schools (5)

Conclusion

If we state that women’s rights have been reached and ignore the facts presented above (but a minuscule sample of the horrific register of sexist abuse) then we are admitting that we live in an unjust, feeble and impotent global society which in over one hundred years of concerted efforts to set women’s rights on an equal footing with those of men has still not managed to create universal and global structures.

While one of the biological functions of the woman is to carry the child through pregnancy (if she so wishes), how can we say that we have reached any pinnacle of success if the right to employment is in many cases subjected to the precept that the woman will not have children and when hardly any societies worldwide have created the financial mechanisms for women to have full professional lives while performing their chosen roles as wives and mothers, quite apart from guaranteeing their right to inviolability of their physical integrity?

UNO: Thai University Graduate

UNO: Woman interviewed in Serbia/Montenegro

UNO: Woman interviewed in Bangladesh

UNO: Woman interviewed in Peru

American Association of University Women. 2001. Hostile Hallways: Bullying, Teasing, and Sexual Harassment in School.

Lisa KARPOVA

Timothy BANCROFT-HINCHEY

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