The Government of Social Life in Colonial India: Liberalism, Religious Law, and Women's Rights. By Rachel Sturman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. 301. $103.00. ISBN: 9781107010376.

2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 170-172
Author(s):  
Tazeen M. Ali
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Colonial India ◽  
Religious Law ◽  
The Government

scholarly journals Gender Inequality in Indonesia: Facts and Legal Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 445-458
Author(s):  
Novia Puspa Ayu Larasati
Keyword(s):  
Women Workers ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Legal Analysis ◽  
The World ◽  
The Law ◽  
Shared Commitment ◽  
The Right ◽  
Male Workers

the present time, the law is still considered discriminatory and not gender-just. Whereas the law should not regard gender to guarantee the fulfillment of women's rights. Women's rights are still not protected. Equality and elimination of discrimination against women are often the center of attention and a shared commitment to implement them. However, in social life, the achievement of equality of women's dignity still has not shown significant progress. So, if there is discrimination against women, it is a violation of women's rights. Women's rights violations occur because of many things, including the result of the legal system, where women become victims of the system. Many women's rights to work still have a lot of conflict about the role of women in the public sector. Today, discrimination against women is still very visible in the world of work. There are so many women who do not get the right to work. This research found that the structure of the company, rarely do we see women who get a place as a leader, in addition to the acceptance of female workers companies put many terms, such as looking attractive, not married, must stay in dormitory and so forth. Their salaries are sometimes different from male workers. Like male workers, women workers also have equal opportunities in the world of work. While there are many legislations governing the rights of women workers, it seems that many companies deliberately do not socialize it and even ignore the legislation just like that.

Recognition and Protection of Women's Rights and Gender in FDRE Constitution and Other Laws of Ethiopia

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 32-46
Author(s):  
Yetimwork Anteneh Wondim
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Human Rights Protection ◽  
Sexual Division Of Labor ◽  
The Government ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender

Irrespective of their contribution, women in Ethiopia have been facing issues like violence, gender-based discrimination, access to education and training, lack of basic human rights protection, and others. Girls' enrollment in education at all levels is much lower than boys. Female education is hampered mainly by the sexual division of labor, which confines girls to household activities. In addition, women have been suffering from gender-based violence under the guise of tradition and culture but condoned by society. In response to these problems, the Government of Ethiopia adopted relevant instruments pertaining to gender including the Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), The Beijing Platform for Action, The Ethiopian Constitution, and various other policies and establishing the national machinery for addressing gender issues. However, several challenges still exist in the realization of women's rights. Therefore, all the respect and protection given for human rights should also be given to women because women's rights are human rights.

Islamischer Feminismus im Iran

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Golrang Khadivi
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Islamic Republic ◽  
Islamic Feminism ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Patriarchal System ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Contemporary Interpretation

After the Islamic Revolution in 1979, patriarchal, religiously oriented rules discriminated against women’s rights and changed their position in society and politics. Islamic feminism in Iran as a post-revolutionary discourse deals with this issue and, at the same time, seeks a new alternatives in the contemporary interpretation of religious norms and those influenced by religion. This work reflects on the mindset and argumentation of various social actors in the debate on women’s rights in Iran since the emergence of the Islamic Republic, in particular on the positions of male thinkers. Furthermore, using the career, biography and publications of each respective actor, the study reconstructs what they base their arguments on and from which perspective they substantiate their points of view. The mindset and reasoning of these thinkers determine their positions in the women’s rights debate on the realisation of reform. In contrast to conservatives, with their clear notion of women’s rights, religiously progressive and liberal secular thinkers place the liberation of women from a prescribed patriarchal system and the restoration of women’s self-confidence at the centre of political and social life.

scholarly journals A Long Road to a Gender Equality in the House of Representatives in Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nuril Khoiriyah
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
House Of Representatives ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Parliamentary Elections ◽  
Social Facts ◽  
Patriarchal System ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
The Government ◽  
Deductive Research

The issue of gender equality in Indonesia has been widely discussed, especially by the younger generations who are starting to become aware of the disadvantages of male domination. However, these discussions in the government sphere are only a ploy to gain a reputation for favouring women’s rights. Thus despite the 30% quota for the parliamentary elections, the number of women in the legislative assembly never reached the target. The construction theory in the field of International Relations considers the discourse on gender equality to be closely related to the formation of social facts that occur in the community. The anachronistic idea that women’s roles should solely comprise cooking fulfilling their husband sexual desires is unfortunately still entrenched in Indonesian culture. Using qualitative-deductive research methods, this study demonstrates that the Patriarchal system as a cultural heritage from ancient times is still adopted today. This is proven by the small number of women sitting in the power of the legislative body. Keywords: Gender, Legislature, Politic, women’s rights

scholarly journals Signalling for Status: UAE and Women’s Rights

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 345-363
Author(s):  
Vânia Carvalho Pinto
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Eastern Region ◽  
Gender Empowerment ◽  
International Audience ◽  
The Government ◽  
The One

Abstract That societies should be gender-equal is a prevailing normative ideal to which states at the very least pay lip service. The UAE as a highly globalised state that aspires to a superior status has not stood outside of these dynamics. Whereas in the decades since independence in 1971 women’s rights were emphasised as a sign of the country’s progress, nowadays, the UAE government portrays women’s rights as being advanced to such an extent that they are setting up a new gender empowerment benchmark for the Middle Eastern region. Additionally, the UAE has also proclaimed the goal of becoming one of the top 25 gender-equal states in the world by 2021. I suggest that these official proclamations are indicative of a signalling strategy whose aim is to advocate to an international audience that the UAE deserves a status higher than it currently holds. Based on Larson and Svechenko’s interpretation of social identity theory, I claim that the UAE’s strategy is one of social creativity. It rests on creating a new value – the Emirati standard of gender equality – within the Arab group. The former is operationalised through, on the one hand, ‘teaching to the test’ tactics in the area of women’s political participation, a field that can be easily regulated by the government. And on the other, on overemphasising the professional deeds of a small group of high-achieving women. In the latter case, as the numbers of females in employment are rather low, the government elects to call attention to women in specific and unconventional positions so as to lend greater credence to the existence of their own superior standard of gender equality within the Arab region.

scholarly journals PERLINDUNGAN HAK-HAK PEKERJA PEREMPUAN PASCA REVISI UNDANG-UNDANG KETENAGAKERJAAN DALAM OMNIBUS LAW

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 1886
Author(s):  
Febri Jaya
Keyword(s):  
Women Workers ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Job Creation ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Normative Study ◽  
Inaccurate Information ◽  
Democratic Action ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Right

Tujuan dari penulisan artikel ini adalah untuk memberikan penjelasan terkait bentuk-bentuk perlindungan hukum hak-hak pekerja perempuan pasca revisi Undang-Undang Nomor 13 Tahun 2003 Tentang Ketenagakerjaan dalam Undang-Undang Nomor 11 Tahun 2020 Tentang Cipta Kerja. Adapun fenomena yang ada pasca pengesahan Rancangan Undang-Undang tentang Cipta Kerja oleh Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat pada tanggal 05 Oktober 2020 adalah terdapat berbagai penolakan masyarakat terhadap Omnibus Law tersebut. Salah satu alasan penolakan masyarakat yang mendorong aksi demokrasi di berbagai daerah di Indonesia. Adapun salah satu persoalan yang menjadi isu yang ditolak oleh masyarakat melalui demonstrasi tersebut adalah penghapusan hak-hak perempuan. Jenis Penelitian yang digunakan dalam menulis artikel ini adalah jenis penelitian hukum normatif. Melalui kajian normatif, Peneliti bermaksud untuk melakukan kajian perlindungan hukum bagi hak-hak pekerja perempuan pasca revisi undang-undang ketenagakerjaan dalam pengesahan Rancangan Undang-Undang Cipta Kerja. Sebagai hasil kajian, peneliti menemukan bahwa hak-hak yang menjadi obyek demonstrasi masyarakat tidak seluruhnya benar. Adapun penyebaran informasi-informasi tidak tepat secara massif dan terstruktur menyebabkan pemahaman yang keliru di masyarakat. Sehingga terjadi demonstrasi penolakan terhadap Omnibus Law yang salah satu pembahasannya adalah perlindungan pekerja perempuan dalam Klaster Ketenagakerjaan. Meskipun penegasan penegakan hak-hak perempuan seharusnya ditegaskan kembali dalam revisi undang-undang tersebut, seperti keharusan pemberian hak-hak pekerja perempuan pada Usaha Kecil dan Mikro yang cukup sering terabaikan.   The purpose of writing this article is to provide a related explanation of forms of legal protection for women workers after revision of Law Number 13 Year 2003 Concerning Employment in Law Number 11 Year 2020 About Job Creation. As for the existing phenomena after the ratification of the Draft Law on Job Creation by the government on October 5, 2020, there have been various public objections to the omnibus law. One of the reasons for the community’s refusal to encourage democratic action in the various region in Indonesia. One of the issues that became an issue that was rejected by the community through the demonstration was the elimination of women’s rights. The type of research used in writing this article is a type of normative legal research. Though a normative study, the researcher intends to conduct a study of legal protection for the rights of women workers after the revision of the labor law in the ratification of the Work Creation Regulation. As a result of the study, the researcher found that the rights that were the object of community demonstration were not entirely correct. Meanwhile, the massive and structured dissemination of inaccurate information has lead to a misunderstanding in society. So there was a demonstration against the omnibus law, one of which was discussed was the protection of women workers in the employment cluster. Although the affirmation of women’s rights should be reaffirmed in the revision of the law, such as the necessity of grant the right of women workers at Small and Micro Enterprises which is quite often neglected.

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