evident in the patriarchal and patrilineal society. It must be rather odd for me to write you this letter as we’ve never met each other, not to mention talk to each other. Despite that, you had inspired me to be who I want to be, not the society wants me to be. The main reason to write this letter to you is to share my experience to you and show my admiration of your persistence. Actually, gender inequality in the United States and China are both relatively severe and similar. Growing up in a family
Feminism grew out of women’s movement against the long history of bias against and inhuman treatment of women by patriarchal men. Feminists, especially in the West started expressing concern on the issue of sex, gender, and even language, which was the product of patriarchy. Postcolonial feminism refutes prejudiced power relationships. It started a fight for the equal justice and equal opportunity for women. We are familiar with the history that women were paid less than a man for the same work
attitude of Indian society. We, now, claim to have world level competition in the field of education, medical, engineering, economy etc. and descend one of the oldest cultures. But socially still we lag behind due to our conservative tendency of the patriarchal society where sexual inequality is at its peak because of the son preference over the daughter. Hariyana, Punjab, Bihar, U. P. etc. are such states where the practice of sex selection is threatening the male- female ratio in India which is 1000:943
Roman Catholics and share the same beliefs. In the same way, American Muslim women are different from their Pakistani counterparts, who are different from those in Saudi Arabia. In these countries, women are accorded different rights and privileges because of the social, economic, cultural and governmental set-ups of the area. Many American Muslim women are discriminated against because they cover their heads; Pakistani women have political rights but are often exploited; Saudi Women have no public
CHAPTER TWO: CASE STUDY: AN ANALYSIS OF THE FISCAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EQUITY BANK, THE WOMEN'S ENTERPRISE FUND AND WOMEN IN THE INFORMAL SECTOR . Female economic empowerment is influenced by access to finance and capital. This chapter seeks to analyze the extent of this assertion by critically assessing information attained through fieldwork across the aforementioned financial institutions and among women in the informal sector. The fieldwork was carried out over a period of two weeks within