(Harris, 2001)
US Newswire (2002) publishes a report that presented the precise negative and positive changes in the status of women during the past one decade. It states, "The proportion of women state legislators grew only slightly, from 20.8% to 22.6%, between 1996 and 2002. In a third of the states, women's political representation dropped. The increase in the ratio between women's and men's earnings in 25 states between 1989 and 1999 was due, in part, to the drop in men's earnings, rather than pure salary increases for women. Women's poverty increased in eight states between 1995 and 1999 and only fell by less than 1 percentage point in nine others."
Thus while there are some positive changes in the role of American women over the years, there have been many negative things that have emerged from it as well. However most American women are happy with the role they are playing the...
This suggests that while slow, progress is being made by Muslim women throughout the world, and supported by the UN. References Al Faruqi, L.L. (2005). Islamic traditions and the feminist movement. Islam101.com. Retrieved October 15, 2007: http://www.islam101.com/women/feminism.html Cooke, M. (2000). Women claim Islam: Creating Islamic feminism through literature. New York: Routledge. Fattah, a.A. (2006). Status of Muslim women. Retrieved: http://www.muslimedia.com/archives/movement00/wom-status.htm Statham, P. (2004). Resilient Islam: Muslim controversies in Europe. Harvard International Review, 26(3): 54. Wyche, K.F. (2004). African-American
A recent artifact that came as a product of this intercultural relationship is an article concerning an American woman's imprisonment -- which included beatings from the police and forcing her to sign false confessions -- simply for being seen eating in public with her male business partner. Even though the woman (who allowed her name to be printed only as "Yara," fearing retribution for telling her story) was wearing the
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