{"id":4430,"date":"2017-08-24T08:37:04","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T00:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ec2-54-254-239-209.ap-southeast-1.compute.amazonaws.com\/?p=4430"},"modified":"2025-08-22T18:10:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T10:10:21","slug":"womens-rights-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.helperchoice.com\/c\/womens-rights-evolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s Rights Evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In the past century, women\u2019s rights have significantly improved. Civil society and the emergence of various feminist movements \u2013 like the Women\u2019s Liberation Movement in the 70\u2019s \u2013played a crucial role in reducing inequities existing between men and women. Undeniably, women today, have access to far greater employment opportunities than ever before in history. Women\u2019s right to vote was certainly a huge step forward and the Millenium Development Goals have moved us further down the road towards equal access to education, which is very often the determinant of a life path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While women\u2019s conditions nowadays are certainly different \u2013 and better \u2013 from what they were a hundred years ago, there is still a lot left to do to reduce the inequalities that remain between men and women, and to bridge the gap between the various regions in the world. At a time when a great number of stereotypes still prevail, true equality is still far from being a universal reality. When it comes to the time spent on domestic work, women spend twice as much time<\/a> as men. On top of that, women often carry most caring responsibilities \u2013 they are estimated to spend twice to ten times more time a day than men<\/a> on care work. Globally, women are paid less than men. Figures speak for themselves: according to a 2015 study by the World Bank<\/a>, women earn on average 60 to 75% of men\u2019s wages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women often aspire for more for their children and themselves, and as a result, are now more likely than ever to migrate in search for better opportunities. Even then, they still are clustered into certain lines of work. Domestic work is one of the biggest employment sectors for women all over the world \u2013 ILO estimates that women represented 81% of the sector\u2019s total workforce in 2013<\/a>. Not only migration has enabled foreign domestic helpers to become economically empowered, it greatly contributed to redefining family structures, resulting in women being catapulted from homemakers into the role of breadwinner. Foreign domestic helpers who leave their countries make countless sacrifices to guarantee that their children \u2013 that they on average get to see every two years \u2013 back home enjoy a far better life. Often, torn between their desire to improve their children\u2019s living conditions and their longing to be with them, many often do not get the opportunity to see them grow up and are forced to entrust their care to other family members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Many times over history, women have had to prove themselves and show considerable persistence in order to acquire new rights. Beyond the crucial role foreign domestic workers play in supporting their families back home, they also play a big part in the economy of their countries \u2013 increasingly celebrated as \u2018national heroes\u2019 \u2013 thanks to the billions in remittances that they send every year. Better economic prospects do not, however, always translate into equality and increased freedom. Foreign domestic workers who migrate to countries like Hong Kong, Singapore and the Middle East often work very long hours. The live-in rule that makes it compulsory for them to stay with their employers definitely contributes to blurring the lines by encouraging extra (non-paid) work, making it harder for them to strike a balance between their personal and professional lives, but also makes them more vulnerable to abuse and exploitation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women\u2019s rights have undeniably progressed \u2013 quite unevenly across regions. To this day, however, in still too many regions in the world gender conditions countless aspects of a woman\u2019s life. Freedom of choice is too often a simple illusion as many women have no say on various matters that directly affect them. It will surely take many more decades of advocacy to achieve true equality in every part of the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the past century, women\u2019s rights have significantly improved. Civil society and the emergence of various feminist movements \u2013 like the Women\u2019s Liberation Movement in the 70\u2019s \u2013played a crucial role in reducing inequities existing between men and women. Undeniably, women today, have access to far greater employment opportunities than ever before in history. Women\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":4431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"Women\u2019s Rights Evolution - HelperChoice Blog","description":"In the past century, women\u2019s rights have significantly improved. Civil society and the emergence of various feminist movements \u2013 like the Women\u2019s Liberation Mov"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rights-regulation"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.helperchoice.com\/c\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/strong-woman.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.helperchoice.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.helperchoice.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.helperchoice.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.helperchoice.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.helperchoice.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4430"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.helperchoice.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6269,"href":"https:\/\/www.helperchoice.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4430\/revisions\/6269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.helperchoice.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.helperchoice.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.helperchoice.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.helperchoice.com\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}