Contemporary Connections: "Womens Rights" Chris W. Williams and Women’s rights are human rights, period, Section 02, Group C

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/womens-rights-are-human-rights-period_us_58be9780e4b0abcb02ce21ef

The article "Women's rights are human rights, period" covers a variety of issues that women have to deal with, not specifically in the United States but all around different areas of the world.  Globally, 1.2 billion women do not have access to basic sanitation and hygiene.  Lack of access to these amenities really shapes the lives of women from childhood to adulthood and even their later or elderly years.  While women do not have access to toilets, they fear and are at risk for assault, and loss of dignity from having to defecate in the open.  Urinary tract infections and other diseases are higher among these women due to holding in feces and urine for long periods of time.
The videos in class that we have watched talk about women who didn't feel like they fit in with just being the "Home Maker".  Just being a wife and mother was what all women were expected to do back then, and those who weren't happy were viewed as having something wrong with them psychologically.  Women eventually started joining the workforce like men, and finally got the right to vote.  The connection between these two sources are that the women who don't have the access to sanitation and hygiene are sort of like those women who felt unhappy as home makers.  We need to come together as one and help these underdeveloped countries provide sanitation to women.  Hygiene should be available to everybody.