Hi, everyone! There are a lot of campaigns for women’s
rights these days and, today, I’d
like to share with you the recent dress
code protests in sport. Have you heard about them?
Everything started with the Norwegian women’s beach handball team and, then, it continued with the German women’s gymnastics team. They protested about the sexist dress code of the International Federations of their sports.
Very often
we hear about the fact that women are paid less for doing the same job as men,
which means women are paid less just for being women. But why does this happen?
It wasn’t very long ago that most women didn’t work outside the home at all. In 1950s there weren’t very many women in the workforce and the women there were were often not as well educated as the men. 70% of them had menial job on factory assembly lines or in office and the only professional job was teaching. Discrimination against women was also totally legal, allowing employers to put out job listing for men only.
Islamic women
In Islamic countries a woman’s life seems to be less worthy than that of a man. For example, in a court of law, a woman’s testimony is worth half that of a man’s. Furthermore, if a woman were to be murdered the compensation for the family would be half that for the murder of a man. In Islam, women are permitted only one spouse; however, men may have up to 4 wives. In addition, the legal age for girls to marry is just nine years old, but boys are allowed only after the age of fourteen. As a result, pedophiles are able to exploit and subsequently leave young girls.
