International Women's Day: This is how anti -feminism and misogynia shape the everyday life of women worldwide
In this opinion article, the authors Angie Jaime and Ursula Schmied enter into the way women are still suppressed.
The situation gets worse from minute to minute: In countries around the world, anti -feminist rhetoric and politics are petrol in the fire that reduces the rights of women to ashes. The proof of this can be seen everywhere.According to UN WomenAdd the gender -specific inequalities: According to these observations, it could still take almost three centuries (at least 286 years) until the global gender differences in the legal protection of women and girls are eliminated. Until everyone is equal.
How do anti -feminism and misogynia express themselves worldwide?
In the United States, the United States's Supreme Court in a historical decision that was heard all over the world Wade ”canceled and thus made the constitutional right to abortion, which was maintained for almost half a century, contestable. In the United States, it is an everyday event that is fought for reproductive rights in court. And life are at stake. Whether an abortion is allowed in a certain place now depends on federal decisions-“My Body, My Choice” is only a phrase in the US countries that are Republican. And the Republican US President Donald Trump also does not want to hear from the right to abortion, his vice JD Vance wants to ban abortions in the whole USA and also do not necessarily exclude incest and rape from this ban. “Handmaid's Tale” in real.
TheThe latest transgender rembrance reportof the National Center for Transgender Equality in the USA leads to blacks3,78 percent of the US transpeaption, but almost 25 percent of the reports reported in the United States are eliminated, with 40.4 percent of the losses due to violent crimes.
International Women's Day: The situation in Germany is 2025
Are these all American problems? Nevertheless: In Germany, too, women are unequal treatment andexposed: According to a study by UN Women, a woman in Germany experiences violence every four minutes-often through one: n (ex) partner: in-, almost every day in Germany happens in Germany, a murder of a woman just because she is a woman. Digital violence against women increased by 25 percent in 2024. According to UN, women with migration history earn 20 percent less than women without a history of migration.
And to secure the existence, oneStudy of the German Trade Union Confederation (DGB)Shaking figures: Many women could not live on their income in the long term, 53 percent of working women had no long -term livelihood. Especially in phases in which women due to about pregnancy andDo not work, work part -time or retired, these women are not sufficiently secured. These are anything but rosy and equal future prospects.
Women's rights are circumcised worldwide
The Chinese government hasin particular feminists (and LGBTQIA+organizers) targeted the social controlEnture by enforcing strict censorship measures both online and in the real world. With these methods wereBoth campaignsfor employee rights as well as open activism for women's rightsSuccessful silence.
In Afghanistan, after taking power in 2021, the Taliban not only excluded women from most areas of public life and prevented girls from going to school beyond the sixth class, but also restricted onepublished UN reportalso access Afghan women to work, travel and health care if they are unmarried or have no male guardian. In the documentaryshow the producersandImpressive everyday life and the restrictions of Afghan women.
In Iran, the moral police still control compliance with clothing regulations for women, violations such as slipping a hijab are punished immediately and with all hardness. Women in Iran are not free, they are not allowed to do anything in public without a male guardian - despite all protests after the death of Jina Mahsa Amini.
Again and again little glimmer of hope light up on the horizon, but they are hard fought. The Supreme Court of Mexico has decidedAbortions at the federal levelto decriminalize. In 2022, Colombia, an extremely conservative country, followed - even if this decision was questioned. In France, the right to abortion is laid down in the constitution of the country, theThe world was horrified. And in Spain the rule applies "yes": According to this rule, all parties involved must actively agree with a sexual act. Unlike with “No means no”, there are no gaps for “maybe” or “but she was wearing a mini skirt”.
Have we already achieved equality?(Spoiler: No!)
“Feminism” and “Empowerment” - once keywords for the fight for equality and feminism - have become negatively connoted buzzwords. In Germany, the proportion of women in the Bundestag fell to 32.4 percent, women still earn 16 percent less than their male colleagues in the same positions for the same work.
However, despite these remarkable gaps in equality between women, many people seem to believe that the struggle for gender equality has already been won. In oneStudy, the von ipsosTogether with the Global Institute for Women's Leadership at King's College London on the occasion of the International Women's Day 2024 in 31 countries, it is said: “More than half of the gene Z and millennials are of the opinion that the equality of women and men in my country is already far enough (57 percent in gene z, 60 percent at Millennials), compared to two out of five baby boomers (43 percent). ”
Wait a minute: is a world in which women, worry about old -age poverty, are not 50 percent represented in parliaments, murdered because of their gender, atAnd in which your rights are consistently circumcised, really the world we want? Or is it more of a world that the patriarchy wants to sell us as the best possible version of an equal world?
International Women's Day: So he comes
For info: The legacy of global workers: interior movements at the turn of the 20th century, that1977The United Nations has not yet overcome the official recognition of international Women's Day. We may have come a long way and, for example, adopted the violent aid law in Germany, but in the end we are far from being when it comes to an equal world.
This article was created with text passages from our college: inside of “Teen Vogue”.
