Women In A Thousand Splendid Sunss

Many of the laws indoctrinated into our civilization involve the rights to property in some way. These rights to property can range from private property, larger property as in states and countries, material property as in cars, houses, and guns, or sometimes property to living things like animals, slaves, or in this case, women. That is, the laws seen in the Hosseini novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, which looks at the life of a women in the Middle-East, especially during the Taliban rule of the 1990’s. In the time that the Taliban ruled Afghanistan from 1996 - 2001 they brought on strict rules for women to an already oppressive Muslim culture seen in the Middle-East which is still seen today in countries like Saudi Arabia. I believe that the lifestyle that women take on in the Middle-Eastern culture, as seen in A Thousand Splendid Suns, is much more oppressive than the lifestyle that women in the western world are accommodated to. I also believe that women are much closer to being equal to men in

I have already went over the rights women have gained over the years like their right to vote and they have done much more before and after gaining that right in an effective movement to gain equality with men in America. Women can live happily and independently of a man, pursue any career they want and are not forced to be as submissive as they would be in a Middle-Eastern marriage. There are aspects of women’s rights that women still look to help improve, like the inequality of receiving raises in the workplace, raising awareness to domestic abuse, and increasing accommodation for pregnant women and their baby’s. While these problems are still important, there is an obvious feeling of progression in women’s rights with the size and amount of problems that women still