Today, no one denies the fact that from birth people are endowed with the same rights, that the legal status does not depend on the gender of the person. It is difficult for a modern person to understand how a couple of centuries ago young ladies were forbidden to study at universities, they were not appointed to senior positions, and in general, a housewife who washes her husband’s clothes and cooks was considered ideal.
What documents contain women's rights today? In 1967, the UN General Assembly drafted a Declaration on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women. In it, the world community emphasized the equal rights of people of different sexes and the need to ensure equal access to all benefits for boys and girls. According to the Declaration, the fair sex was granted the right to vote in elections and public referenda, and it emphasized that persons of both sexes have equal access to posts in the service of the state. Article 10 of the Declaration prescribes the abolition of those provisions of labor law that violate the rights of pregnant women. Equal access to educational programs is guaranteed. This document was the cause of subsequent international acts protecting the rights of women. Further, declarations on the legal status of the fair sex were adopted in 1974, 1993, 1995 and 2000. In 2000, the Political Declaration on Women in the Twenty-First Century was signed.
In Russia, feminist clubs and groups are not as popular as, for example, in the USA. Every year on August 26, Americans celebrate the feast of equality for women. This holiday was first held in 1971. American lawyer and politician Bella Abzug was elected to Congress, where she expressed her initiative.
The U.S. equal suffrage movement in the United States took place in the mid-nineteenth century and was successful. The nineteenth amendment of the US Constitution appeared in 1920. This amendment, according to feminists, was the first in the history of their state to officially recognize the right of women to participate in political life, in shaping the appearance of the state.
Normative acts on the issue of the rights of the fair sex were adopted not only by the UN, but also by the World Trade Organization and the International Labor Organization. The text of the documents adopted by these bodies was drawn up mainly taking into account medical reports on the female body, sociological and statistical data. In many countries, there are certain lists of jobs for which employers simply do not have the right to appoint girls. Women cannot be forced to work in difficult conditions.
Now, here are some amazing facts. We’ll tell you what interesting women's rights are spelled out in individual laws. So, in Hong Kong, a lady has the right to kill an unfaithful spouse. The only difficulty is that she must do this with her bare hands, without the help of weapons and other foreign objects. In Colorado, USA, it is forbidden to kiss a sleeping woman. I wonder how their children read fairy tales about Snow White and the sleeping beauty? Some states do show discrimination against the fairer sex. For example, in Kentucky, ladies are prohibited from appearing in swimsuits on the road. The exception is only those whose weight is below forty or above ninety kilograms. That is, a beautiful lady has no right to appear on the road in a beach suit, and a pumped-up handsome man - please! According to the laws of St. Louis, firefighters are forbidden to take out women without clothes and dressed in a dressing gown or in a nightgown. At the same time, it is prescribed to throw all efforts to save a man, no matter what form he is. In Florida, unmarried girls are not allowed to parachute on Sundays.