Toward a Program of Resistance (Winter 2022) Labor/Community Strategy Center Commentary Series
U.S. Responsibility for Subjugation of Women Around the Globe and Within the U.S.
Current conditions
The exploitation and abuse of women across the globe is escalating. At the same time, women everywhere are resisting, and the movements of women in the Third World are placing demands on the U.S. military, in particular, and on international bodies such as the United Nations to stop the mass murder of women and children and to establish global standards for women's rights in general. There is tremendous motion, yet the international Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1979, is still not ratified by the United States. The Bush administration is using defense of women's rights as a justification for a war that kills women and children. The President himself promotes the right-wing religious fundamentalism that has led the attack on hard-won women's rights inside the U.S. Around the world and right in their own home, U.S. corporations, the U.S. military, and all U.S. institutions of governance insist upon the structural subjugation of women, in fact, play a leading role in violating presumed inalienable rights.