WOMEN'S RIGHTS

Relatively little work has been done examining the influence of spirituality and religion on the women who played such an important role in the Women's Rights Movement. This article discusses one such activist and the way in which her religion influenced her activism.

The 32-year-old women's rights pioneer and architect of a women's driving campaign in Saudi Arabia, Manal Al Sharif, was released yesterday from a prison in Dammam after more than a week in detention.

An overview of the changes in Women's Rights before, during, and after the First World War.

Women driving rights in Saudi Arabia

There is no gainsaying that women's rights constitute an important indicator of understanding global well-being.

Lack of women's rights can vary from the inability to vote or hold office to work in certain career fields to file for divorce to the risk of being raped by husbands with no repercussion for the man.

Hugh Hefner has been paying attention to the rhetoric surrounding the 2012 presidential election, and he has decided that he doesn’t like what he is hearing. He is speaking out against the war on women, but who will listen to what he has to say?

The 19th Amendment celebrated a birthday on Aug. 18, 2010. This Amendment was ratified in 1920, so this birthday meant, for 90 years, women have had the right to vote in the United States.

The term suffragette was actually a derogatory term for women in Britain who championed women's right in the late 19th and early 20th century; particularly for the women who lobbied for women's right to vote

When did the struggle for independence come into its own, when did democracy in this country really start, when did rock 'n' roll actually come together, or when did it all start for women that they realized they needed their own rights movement?

The term suffragette was actually a derogatory term for women in Britain who championed women's right in the late 19th and early 20th century; particularly for the women who lobbied for women's right to vote

The Taliban has regrouped, reorganized and women are once living in conditions of fear and repression.

Here is an analysis on women's freedom in the Paris Commune, how it is misrepresented in American history, and how it contrasts with the contemporary aspect of gender inequality.

This paper analyzes the difficulties women encounter in terms of education, work and other aspects of life dating back to the Soviet era and Post Soviet Uzbekistan

Women empowerment can lead to real development .

Women were a part of politics before they were acknowledged to have rights. This occures because historical moments put a culture's notion of politics and gender into question, which allows people to react in different ways and then attach new meanings.

This is an opinion peice on the current state of women's use of the progress made by the 1960's women's movement.

Women have come far from women's liberation, yet we still make seven cents to every male dollar. Why?

The laws on the books are not necessarily put into practice in the homes, on the streets or in the work places.

A discussion of the opera, Carmen and why it was a total failure when it first premiered in Paris in 1875. What themes the opera had that disturbed Europeans at that time.

RAWA is a group of women who fight for women's rights in Afghanistan against the brutal restrictions and abuse perpetrated by Islamic radical groups.