Women's Rights

To bodily integrity and autonomy

To be free from sexual violence

Rights to family

to work

to fair wage or equal pa

According to the jurisprudence of the ECHR, the right to freedom from discrimination includes not only the obligation of states to treat in a different way persons who are in analogous situations.

Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States. Employment rights for women include non-discriminatory acces of women to jobs and equal pay.

During the 19th century the right to vote was gradually extended in many countries, and women started to campaign for their right vote.

Property rights for women continued to be restricted in many European countries until legal reforms of the 1960-70s. The Supreme Court, in Kirchberg v. Feenstra (1981), declared such laws unconstitutional.

Various practices have been used historically to restrict women's freedom of movement, such as foot binding, the custom of applying painfully tight binding to the feet of young Chinese girls, which wa common between the 10th and 20th century.