Women's freedom and equality in the west

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This article identifies women freedom and gender equality in West. A comparative study of women’s rights in Islam and West is the need of the hour to determine the best way out for women’s right. The article covers Islamic texts talk about gender equality in the main sources of Islam. This article features what Islam – through the Quran and the Hadith – in fact prescribes in regard to gender equality and women's human rights. West, which professes to be the standard-bearer of women’s right, but women of west had no status until a couple of decades ago. The philosophy of equality was developed after industrial revolution when women confronted disparities in employments and compensation in western society; at first they brought their voice up in economic sector and afterward expanded this philosophy of equality in other fields of life. Western philosophy of equality demands social and economic uniformity for a woman out of the spirit of democracy ،free sex and no marriage. The fundamental concepts of rights in West and Islam are similar to some extents, these includes the right to education, the right to employment, the right to vote and their right to have and express their own opinions but Islam’s rules always accord with nature of man and woman and take into consideration their inherent differences, on other hand Western equality promoted promiscuous society which resulted perilous consequences on society. Islam from its very inception has given more than the West is demanding for a woman today and it is still flexible to adjust woman in society with the changing time and needs. Islam says that both the genders will be equally rewarded for their good deeds inside their separate fields assigned to them according to their biological difference. The fundamental values of Islam arguably promote and honor the position of women in society and have guaranteed men and women their human rights and duties as individuals in an equal degree.

Bushra Jabin, Dr. Samia Rafique. (2019) مغرب میں خواتین کی آزادی اور مساوات, Al-Azhāar, Volume 5, Issue 1.
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