For generations women have been fighting for equality in our country. Although there have been many advances in this movement women are still treated unequally today. One of the most critical problems with women's rights today deals with women in the work place. Human rights violations against women must be documented, publicized, and stopped. Human rights violations against women have for too long been denied the attention and concern of international organizations, national governments, traditional human rights groups, and the press. Meanwhile, hundreds of millions of women around the globe continue to endure debilitating and often fatal human rights abuses (equalitynow.org, 1). No one could reasonably argue that women and men live exactly the same kinds of lives or that they have the same experiences in society. In addition, there is an obvious division of labor between men and women. Very few women appear among the ranks of the powerful (Sapiro, 19).All over the world women's rights are violated and too many times they are ignored. In India a ten-year-old girl was sold by her father to a sixty-year-old man for $240. At a boarding school in Kenya 300 boys attack the girls dormitory, raping 71 of the girls. A fourteen-year-old girl in Ireland is raped by her father and becomes pregnant, she is prohibited to travel to get an abortion. Not only do these terrible acts go on in other countries, these very things also occur in the United States. A 51-year-old woman is stabbed nineteen times and killed by her former boyfriend after she had gone to authorities numerous times to get protection form harassment, but all charges were dropped. All of these cases are just a small part of all the injustices women all over the world endure everyday (equalitynow.org, 1).The women's movement began in 1848. On July 19 and 20 several women meet and call the meeting for women's rights at the Seneca Falls Convention. In 1850 Lucy Stone a...
