Undoubtedly, "women's rights are human rights" is of great significance. "Women's rights" are the rights that women should have as social people and national citizens, and they are not obtained by "seizing power" from men. Where can there be human rights without women's rights? Without women's rights, where can there be social justice? It is also in this sense that the modern feminist movement and feminist thought are called a basic force to promote the world democratic process in the past 50 years.
Perhaps it is too grand to compare "women's rights" with "human rights"? Liang Qichao, a famous reform thinker, also encountered similar problems in his early years. Mr. Liang's article entitled "Human Rights and Women's Rights" was accused of being "unreasonable". In this regard, Liang first "haha" and then answered quite meaningfully. He said that if this topic is unreasonable, it was not invented by someone in Liang, but the current social situation is like this (unreasonable). He just told the truth and wanted to make it clear. Think about it. If we persist in discriminating, excluding and oppressing the other half of mankind and depriving them of their due equal rights, what will be left of human rights and justice as the essence of modern democratic spirit? What else is great? When women's status as "people" is absent, human rights and social justice will cease to exist, and the reason is really simple. However, as a system of social inequality, men are superior to women and men are superior to women, which has lasted for thousands of years in China. Although it has fallen apart as a system so far, as an ideology, it still permeates all aspects of society and is deeply rooted. Therefore, the truth that "women's rights are human rights" is difficult for everyone to understand and understand, and it is also difficult to really put it into practice, so it is also called "the longest revolution".
More importantly, feminist research also found that it is obviously not enough to truly understand and implement "women's rights are human rights". In order to change equal rights from legal provisions to real actual rights, many related conditions must be met. As pointed out by the Institute of Feminist Studies, equality of rights cannot be just imagined as having the same material or money. To a greater extent, rights should refer to various relationships-relationships established by people's actions and interactions according to certain systems and rules, and at the same time provide various opportunities for individuals involved, which is also understood as an indispensable "social capital" for personal development. The difference of relationship and opportunity will undoubtedly directly affect the strength of individual development ability, leading to a completely different development state. This means that in order to truly recognize and implement the equality of rights between men and women, they must be involved in establishing as equal a communication relationship as possible, and then they can get the same development opportunities-they can have the same "social capital". Patriarchy is just the opposite in this respect. Through the division of labor mode of "men dominate the outside and women dominate the inside", women are excluded from the social public sphere, thus losing the possibility of participating in various public activities, establishing communication relations and gaining development opportunities as independent subjects, thus making the formation of women's self-development ability rootless and passive. Feminist research also points out that self-esteem is a basic wealth of human development. However, through the spread of the traditional concept that men are superior to women, patriarchy devalues and tramples on women's self-esteem and deprives them of "capital" that may support their independent development not only materially but also spiritually. It can be seen that the slogan "Women's rights are human rights" shows far more than the legal provisions on gender equality, and more importantly, the de facto right to gender equality-it does have all the necessary conditions to realize equal rights.
In the article "Human Rights and Women's Rights", Mr. Liang Qichao's view is also very similar. He pointed out that human rights have three meanings: first, the right to education equality, second, the right to career equality, and third, the right to political equality. He believes that although these three things are linked, they can still be carried out step by step, and the right to education is undoubtedly an indispensable first step, so that women have the necessary conditions for equal employment and political participation. Liang Qichao also quoted the famous sentence "knowledge is power" and clearly pointed out: "If you don't seek power on the basis of knowledge, you will never get power; If you are lucky, you can't stay. One person is like this, class is like this, and gender is like this. " This is wisdom and foresight, hitting the floor. Looking back on today's China, the "women are superior to men" in 2005 and the social debate it caused made people more aware of the necessity and importance of "women's rights are human rights". The implementation of equal rights such as women's right to education has risen to the height of human rights protection, which is also highly targeted at present. Otherwise, women's equal rights will "never be obtained" and "never be maintained".
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