Women and Religion

Reading header : TREATMENT OF THE WOMEN THROUGHOUT THE HISTORY AND CULTURES IN ASIA

Treatment of the Women throughout the History and Cultures

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10 April 2009

Treatment of the Women throughout the History and Cultures

Introduction

Religious fundamentalism has been blamed as being a crucial issue for women in this millennium (Coomaraswamy , qtd . in Samath , 1999 . According to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women religious fundamentalism was growing in South Asia , and the international community needed

to join with the local groups to fight violence against women in all its forms . According to the author , girls and women were restricted by Taliban fundamentalists to access school and university education . In addition , western clothes and make-ups have been banned and jobs outside homes restricted except for all-female hospital wards . The women 's rights to speak to men except family members , attending of social gatherings other than weddings and funerals , where men and women are segregated , have been denied according to the author

Religious fundamentalism which is sponsored can be blamed for controlling women sexuality , fertility and mobility of women in South Asia . Religious fundamentalism ideologies may cause a country to adopt laws that not only physically or directly discriminate against women but those that indirectly discriminate by restricting women to work in certain fields and not others because of assumed traditional roles These restrictions have persisted in certain regions even when those sectors of economies where women were allowed to contribute...