Editing Women's rights (section)

{{Short description|Rights claimed for women and girls worldwide}}
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[[File:Annie Kenney and Christabel Pankhurst.jpg|thumb|upright=1.0|[[Annie Kenney]] and [[Christabel Pankhurst]] campaigning for [[women's suffrage]] in 1908]]
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'''Women's rights''' are the [[rights]] and [[Entitlement (fair division)|entitlement]]s claimed for [[women]] and [[girl]]s worldwide. They formed the basis for the women's rights movement in the 19th century and the [[feminist movement]]s during the 20th and 21st centuries. In some countries, these rights are institutionalized or supported by law, local custom, and behavior, whereas in others, they are ignored and suppressed. They differ from broader notions of [[human rights]] through claims of an inherent historical and traditional bias against the exercise of rights by women and girls, in favor of men and boys.<ref name="Hosken">Hosken, Fran P., 'Towards a Definition of Women's Rights' in ''Human Rights Quarterly'', Vol. 3, No. 2. (May 1981), pp. 1–10.</ref>

Issues commonly associated with notions of women's rights include the right to [[bodily integrity]] and [[autonomy]], to be free from [[sexual violence]], to [[Women's suffrage|vote]], to hold public office, to enter into legal contracts, to have equal rights in [[family law]], [[Right to work|to work]], to fair wages or [[Equal pay for equal work|equal pay]], to have [[reproductive rights]], to [[Right to property|own property]], and [[Right to education|to education]].<ref name=quarterly>Lockwood, Bert B. (ed.), ''Women's Rights: A "Human Rights Quarterly" Reader'' (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006), {{ISBN|978-0-8018-8374-3}}.</ref>

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