Women's Rights - Thesis Example

Womens Rights The attainment of an equal society for women in Africa has been a gradual but progressive process as a number of countries currently formulate and implement policies that are pro women (Jing 21). For a long time African societies have treated women poorly by denying them access to resource as their male counterparts. This has in turn resulted in an imbalanced society, one in which men occupy all the positions of leadership at the expense of women who perform basic home management roles (Oduyoye 12).

The research therefore seeks to investigate the types of exploitations leveled against women. It further investigates how the modern day African societies reverse the effect of such retrogressive beliefs, which have contributed to the denial of human rights to women in the societies.In doing the research analyses a number of sources primary of which are films and videos obtained from you tube and other digital video disc formats. These videos depict the different forms of women maltreatments and the rights denial mechanisms that the African women face in their daily lives.

Some of these videos show how the female genital mutilation a vice that have through time denied the African girl child equal academic opportunity since after the practice the young girls are immediately married off to elderly men (Ogundipe-Leslie 21). The research also uses secondary sources, which include books and newspaper articles, which recount the struggle of the African woman for liberty and equal opportunity in the society. These seek to depict the progresses made by different governments in the continent to level the playing ground for both sexes thus uplift the status of the girl child thus that of the African woman by extrapolation (Rwomire 11).

Works citedAfrican Woman. London: Akina Mama wa Afrika, 1988. Print.Jing, Thomas. Tale of an African Woman. Bamenda, Cameroon: Langaa Research & Pub. CIG, 2007. Print. Oduyoye, Mercy A. Introducing African Womens Theology. London: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001. Print.Ogundipe-Leslie, Molara. Re-creating Ourselves: African Women & Critical Transformations. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1994. Print.Rwomire, Apollo. African Women and Children: Crisis and Response. Westport, Conn. [u.a.: Praeger, 2001. Print.