TEHRAN- International Womens Day is well known every year on March 8 as a centerpiece of attention to the ladies of the world.This day is more than an opportunity to discuss empowering women.
It ought to become an opportunity to highlight the offense of human rights against females and ladies and gender discrimination toward them.
In truth, women remain in crisis now especially.
The crisis can be called inequality of the century.The circumstance has actually been created by the commercialism and Western patriarchal culture, in which the beneficiary is a male and the exploited is a woman.Powerful yet forgotten!In the last few decades ladies have actually made significant progress in protecting their legal and economic rights such as boosting higher education and enhancing their status in the fields of politics and society.As of October 2019, the worldwide participation rate of women in national-level parliaments is 24.5%.
In 2013, ladies held 8% of all national leaders and 2% of all presidential positions.
Additionally, 75 percent of all prime ministers and presidents have been ladies in the previous two decades.Between 2005 and 2015, there were 517 cases of sexual assault by authorities in the United States.Therefore, it is true that the world has shown positive indications with a more open view of femaless political and social presence, however these achievements still have not resolved the standard and real problems of ladies.
And not only is it insufficient for women, but they likewise need to be connected more with each other to endure serious identity crises in front of them.Now, the most crucial difficulty dealing with women is their flexibility from the Western capitalist story of females and femininity.This problem has actually now put women in a more vital situation with the contemporary objectification made by the pornography, fashion and cosmetics industries.
World Womens Report , released every five years given that 1990, states after two centuries of female human rights activists, no country achieved the objective of gender equality in 2022, and violence versus women and women is still prevalent in the world.So, its real that the world has actually altered - a little - over the past decade and a half, however its insufficient for women.More than ever, they require to transform themselves and stand up for solidarity against the ever-increasing commodification of the thriving porn, style, and cosmetics industries.Since 1991, with the development of The American Dream , the media have been promoting The Beauty Myth as a leading priority.It is obvious that charm was considered an efficient worth and nourished and succeeded some industries such as the food industry with 33 billion dollars of earnings per year; cosmetic surgery industry with 300 million dollars; porn industry with 7 billion dollars; and cosmetics industry with 20 billion dollars.
And females in this period became victims of the patriarchal capitalist system more than ever.Another issue in the last few decades is the epidemy of sexual abuse, which still has high rates on the planet.
According to the readily available files about the status of females, if at one time nearly 800 thousand servants were carried from Africa to America, now a hundred thousand ladies are offered as servants in America every year.And individuals can purchase a woman, typically from Latin America or Africa or Southeast Asia, etc, for a rate equivalent to a thousand dollars, 4 times less than the price of a slave at todays rate.The #MeToo movement in 2017 was likewise drawing another aspect of rape and sexual harassment of females, specifically in the workplace, and condemned it.On November 30, 2021, the New York Times published a report entitled Like Fresh Meat: Details of Rampant Sexual Harassment in the Australian Parliament.
Also, in the United States, news stories reveal unwanted sexual advances of ladies by the police.Between 2005 and 2015, there were 517 cases of sexual assault by cops in the United States, according to Bowling Green State University criminal justice professor Philip Stinson.Another study discovered that nearly 1,000 officers in the United States lost their badges for rape and other sexual offenses over a six-year duration.
According to data, rapes that occur on college campuses are reported in only one out of twenty-five cases.
Simply as only one percent of sexual rapists in the army are prosecuted.
Oppression or freedom?Women have been defending liberty, equivalent rights, and gender indiscrimination for more than a century.
Considering that 1991, with the development of The American Dream , the media have actually been promoting The Beauty Myth as a top priority.But they are still weak, helpless, and more scattered than ever, roaming and passive in reaching their wanted objective.
But the concern can be raised from here, why females have actually not had the ability to reach their wanted and real position after a century of efforts ?! The response to these questions covers a vast array of problems.
However, among the essential elements that can be considered in addressing this question is the dominance of the Western industrial capitalist patriarchal system narrative on the identity of Western ladies and other females of the world.After getting rid of women from the safe haven of the family to society and the workplace as cheap and affordable labor, and providing some financial and legal rights, the capitalist system now tries to emerge by drawing a model of sexual and sensual females.
They must do something new for the advantage of men.Capitalism now especially with the famous standardization of beauty and the promotion of sexual models produced by its media propaganda, puts women under psychological, mental, and psychological pressures more than ever.The capitalist system as soon as needed cheap women to construct its factories, and now it requires femaless appeal and body to develop other industries.
And this is the very same vicious cycle that has actually been recognized in industrialism and has actually made it devoid of moral values since it does not believe of anything besides profit.Yes, when commercialism identifies the position of humans in the capitalist system, human beings are no longer the exact same and it is the male gender that is placed above the female gender.
This is the dark well in the western capitalist system that females have fallen into for more than 2 centuries and still have not been able to get out of it.
For that reason, the important question now is whether commercialism, with its presence in the field of international management for more than 2 centuries, supply the ground for femaless injustice or ladiess freedom.HIGHLIGHT: