Exploring Women Rights and Gender Equality: Case Studies

Women are the important member in the progress of the society. When we assume a women, a girl, a wife, a mother, a grandmother, overall woman is the key of a family. World can never be complete without a woman. Law is the set of rules enforced to govern the behaviour of people. From the beginning of this world women is treated as a weaker section of the society and they are the victims of the crimes like rape, eve teasing, female infanticide, dowry, domestic violence, child marriage and acid throwing. Women are subject to different economic, social and cultural conditions than male and facing special huddles to their enjoyment of the same rights as men on an equal footing in all walks of life.. Despite some progress for women, inequalities still exist in many fields, such as education, and employment etc . The articles describe about the importance of gender (male and female) equality in contemporary democracies, the professional advancement of women, equal status of men and women, the enforcement of women's international human rights, reproductive freedom, and censorship. The literature on the economic consequences of women's rights documents that more rights for women lead to more spending on health and children, which should benefit development. The political and economy literature on the evolution of women's rights finds that technological change increased the costs of patriarchy for men and thus contributed to the expansion of women's rights.