Gender Equality and Women’s Success in Reality

Quoted from fundacionmavi.org Gender equality is one of our human rights. The right to live in an honorable way, free from fear and free to make life choices is not only reserved for men, women also have the same rights in essence.

Unfortunately, until now, there are still people in society who think that women are weak and only become complementary figures. Figures of women who excel and can balance between family and career are very rare to find. Women are often afraid to have a career because of the demands of their role as housewives.

But on the other hand, along with the times, the level of modernization and globalization of information and the success of the women’s emancipation movement and feminism, the attitudes and roles of women began to shift. In the economic field, for example, the involvement of women in economic activities has experienced quite dramatic changes and increases.

Women are no longer fully dependent on their husbands in meeting the economic needs of the family, women have started to think of their personal income as a form of material care for the survival of a family.

In general, motives and goals in work will differ between men and women. For men, work is an obligation that must be carried out because of their responsibilities as the head of the family and breadwinner. Whereas for women, especially those with working married status can be interpreted to help the family economy. For this reason, some women decide to help the family economy by working.

The career success of women can be influenced by several factors, namely:

Family support is very important. Women must make an agreement with their partner before marriage, whether when married still working or not.
Working independently and productively even without being in an office, means that women must be technologically literate
Good at managing time. Women generally become a mother. The balance between career and family is a chore for working women.
How about women, are you ready to work and have a career?

Women’s Rights and Gender Equality

Starting from feeling uncomfortable being catcalled on the street, being banned from higher education because they are deemed not to need higher education, being victims of female circumcision to being married off at an early age, women’s rights all over the world are still being threatened.

Actually, what are the rights of women? Here’s the explanation.

What Are Women’s Rights?

Ideally, women have equal rights and opportunities with other genders.

If it’s all the same, why is there a need for a special struggle for women’s rights?

Many violations of rights and inequality of opportunities are experienced by women or are detrimental to many women, such as domestic violence, sexual violence, lower wages, and lack of access to adequate education and health services.

For hundreds of years, the women’s rights movement has campaigned to eradicate rules, attitudes, stigma and traditions that are not in favor of women.

The women’s movement has developed in the digital era, such as the global #MeToo campaign highlighting gender-based violence, including sexual violence, and also the #Enactment of the Draft Bill on the Elimination of Sexual Violence which calls for regulations to eliminate sexual violence in Indonesia.