Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nThe authorities of Saudi Arabia have steadily chipped away at those restrictions in recent years, including ending a ban on women driving cars last year. A series of royal decrees published earlier this month further eroded that system as the kingdom comes under increased scrutiny over its human rights record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Saudi passports<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
The regulatory changes\nstipulated that a Saudi passport should be issued to any citizen who applies\nfor it and that any person above the age of 21 does not need permission to\ntravel. They also granted women for the first time the right to register child\nbirth, marriage or divorce and to be issued official family documents and be\neligible as a guardian to children who are minors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe passports and\ncivil status departments and their branches in all regions of the kingdom have\nstarted to implement the amendments stipulated in the royal decree,\u201d the SPA\nreport said, citing an interior ministry source.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A Saudi Arabia newspaper reported that more than 1,000 women in the country’s Eastern Province had left Saudi Arabia on August 19 without their guardian’s permission, in what appeared to be an early implementation of the new rules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Women\u00b4s Rights<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Women’s rights are the rights and entitlements claimed for\nwomen and girls worldwide, and formed the basis for the women’s rights movement\nin the nineteenth century and feminist movement during the 20th century. In\nsome countries, these rights are institutionalized or supported by law, local\ncustom, and behavior, whereas in others they are ignored and suppressed. They\ndiffer from broader notions of human rights through claims of an inherent historical\nand traditional bias against the exercise of rights by women and girls, in\nfavor of men and boys. Issues commonly associated with notions of women’s\nrights include the right: to bodily integrity and autonomy; to be free from\nsexual violence; to vote; to hold public office; to enter into legal contracts;\nto have equal rights in family law; to work; to fair wages or equal pay; to\nhave reproductive rights; to own property; to education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
First woman freedom fighter<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Sucheta Kriplani (n\u00e9e Mazumdar, 25 June 1908 \u2013 1 December\n1974) was an Indian freedom fighter and politician. She was India’s first woman\nChief Minister, serving as the head of the Uttar Pradesh government from 1963\nto 1967.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted American\nwomen the right to vote, a right known as women’s suffrage, and was ratified on\nAugust 18, 1920, ending almost a century of protest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Problems Faced by Women in India<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Gender Disparity:<\/em><\/strong> Many studies reveal that both\nprofessional and non-professional women experience heavy stress due to gender\nbias. Although women have proved the best of their abilities in various fields\nof work at par with men, they still continue to have a grip over their\nhousehold responsibilities. In spite of their hard work, women have been given\nsecond importance in their field of work.<\/p>\n\n\n\nDual Responsibility:<\/em><\/strong> Women\u2019s attitude towards their\nstereotyped (traditional) role is rapidly changing and their participation in\ndifferent job sectors is increasing alarmingly due to low economic condition of\nfamily, advancement in the field of women education, granting of more liberty,\nrights and privileges to women.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIlliteracy and Traditional Belief:<\/em><\/strong> Illiteracy and\ntraditional beliefs and practices of family have prevented a great majority of\nwomen from access to health care and knowledge about their rights and\nprivileges resulting high rate of maternal mortality and morbidity. In our\nsociety male members of the family are supposed to eat fresh and nutrition\u2019s\nfood in comparison to women because either they are the earning member or head\nof the family or they are supposed to be more important than female members.<\/p>\n\n\n\nSocial Stigma and Poverty Condition:<\/em><\/strong> Crime and violence\nagainst women are on the rise. This is only due to social stigma that women are\nweaker section of society. Poverty condition compels the poor women to sell\ntheir minor girl like commodity and give away their grown-up daughter into\nslavery to another family to perform household activities. They are subject to\nvictim of STD. (Sexual Transmitted Disease) AIDS due to unprotected sex as they\nare able to protest.<\/p>\n\n\n\nHowever during these few decades, industrialization,\nurbanization, westernization and spread of women education have brought about\ndrastic changes in women\u2019s, lives but still they are facing multifarious and\nmultidimensional problems. Despite so much hue and cry in the whole world for\nequal treatment of-both men and women in every aspect of life we are still\nlagging behind in achieving the goal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Saudi Arabia women no longer require permission from a male guardian to travel or obtain a passport. Riyadh has long faced international criticism over the status of Saudi women. Rights groups say women are often treated as second-class citizens under rules requiring them to get the consent of a male guardian for important decisions throughout […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":5062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[526],"class_list":["post-5061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles","tag-saudi-arabia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5063,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5061\/revisions\/5063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}