Although men and women have equal rights, society treats them as different.
Previously the role of women was restricted to the maintenance of the home and caring for the children. Only men could participate in politics and other public activities.
Over time women began to play a slightly different, in time of revolution, manifesting itself mainly to the right of voting and the rights won by the revolution should be for both sexes; At the time of the Industrial Revolution, or is in the nineteenth century, the number of women employed increased significantly, although still not reduce the wage difference between sexes, which had to justify the assumption that women who have to maintain.
Only in 1893 it was granted for the first time in New Zealand, the right to vote to women. In 1918, Germany and the UK allow the female vote, while only come to France, Italy and Japan in 1945. In the decades of 1930 and 1940, these claims were formally acquired in most Western countries (the right to vote, education and access to the labor market). Thanks to two major wars that involved most of the men, taking the jobs left vacant, women were increasingly able to work. At the end of both wars, there were campaigns that devalued the female work, showing that the advances made were still restricted to the legislative.
Already in the 1960s, the movement, influenced by such publications as The Second Sex (1949) of Simone de Beauvoir, is the view that the hierarchy between the sexes is not a biological inevitability, but a social construction. Beyond the fight for equal rights, embodies the question of cultural roots of inequality.Even today, even after so much struggle over the centuries by the affirmation of women in society and, in 1945, equal rights between men and women have been recognized in international document by the Charter of the United Nations, women continue to be down (as much as in developed countries as in developing countries) in several aspects, such as at work - where men continue to be paid more than women - pregnant women at the party, in family life in which some women are forced to be at home to take care of the family and make the deals of the house, old-fashioned, being controlled by men, sometimes even suffering from domestic violence.
It made all these economic, political and social and achieved by women, while for others not, on 8 March every year is celebrated International Women's Day to make a tribute to 129 women’s that died in a factory burned fighting for better conditions of work.
Annually on 25 November, it is the International Day to Combat Violence against Women, having been proclaimed by the United Nations (UN) in 1999 as a way to alert and report that even today, still is practiced violence against women, that the data from the public, puts humanity to one of the most dramatic failure of the most basic human rights. 
I wanted to comment this post because it talks about a topic that I’m totally against ‘discrimination against women’. In Portugal women were once a major target of discrimination because they were considered inferior to men and could not have a job; they could only be devoted to their home and family it wasn’t anything like these days.
ResponderEliminarAlthough the times have changed and now there is less discrimination against women, women still put up with situations of discrimination and inequality in their professional, social and family life.
In other countries such as Saudi Arabia, women are treated in a totally different way from men. They are prohibited from many things, like studying in schools, any kind of work outside their home, walking in the streets without the company of her husband, brother or father and are required to wear a full veil that covers their toes to their head.
I think it's time to stop this type of discrimination in these countries mainly because women are human beings like men and have the right to live like any men.
Stephanie