Concept
Women's rights
Overview
Women's rights are the rights and entitlements claimed for women and girls worldwide. They formed the basis for the women's rights movement in the 19th century and the feminist movements during the 20th and 21st centuries. In some countries, these rights are institutionalized or supported by law, local custom, and behavior, whereas in others, they are ignored and suppressed. They differ from broader notions of human rights through claims of an inherent historical and traditional bias against the exercise of rights by women and girls, in favor of men and boys.
Issues commonly associated with notions of women's rights include the right to bodily integrity and autonomy, to be free from sexual violence, to vote, to hold public office, to enter into legal contracts, to have equal rights in family law, to work, to fair wages or equal pay, to have reproductive rights, to own property, and to education.
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All causes, social and natural, combine to make it unlikely that women should be collectively rebellious to the power of men. They are so far in a position different from all other subject classes, that their masters require something more from them than actual service.
John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women
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The control exercised by the group over individual members assumes various forms among the different peoples. The more important aspects are a right over life and bodily freedom, in some cases extending to power of putting to death, maiming, chastising, deciding whether newly born children shall be preserved or not; the right of betrothal, which includes control over the marriage portion received for its women; and…
John Dewey, Ethics
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But it is not even necessary to maintain so much in order to prove that women should have the suffrage. Were it as right as it is wrong that they should be a subordinate class, confined to domestic occupations and subject to domestic authority, they would not the less require the protection of the suffrage to secure them from the abuse of that authority. Men, as well as women, do not need political rights in order…
John Stuart Mill, Considerations on Representative Government
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Philosophers who discussed Women's rights
- Feminism
- Ludwig Büchner
- Murray Bookchin
- John Stuart Mill
- John Dewey
- Netherlands
- Charles Fourier
- Hypatia
- Michael Oakeshott
- Islam
- Emma Goldman
- Amos Bronson Alcott
- Harry Stopes-Roe
Related ideas
- Egalitarianism
- Turkey
- French Revolution
- Germany
- Greece
- Athens
- Gender equality
- Human rights
- India
- Indonesia
- Private property
- Heian period
- Japan
- John Stuart Mill
- Julius Caesar
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Jesuits
- John Locke
- Edo period
- Women's suffrage
- Archaic Greece
- Environmentalism
- Middle Ages
- Muhammad
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of American philosophy.