THE ORIGIN OF GENDER VIOLENCE
Introduction
When we listen to the term gender violence, most of us think only of men’s aggressions towards women. However, gender violence is defined as a form of specific and particular violence against women, by their own condition of being a woman. Gender violence can be given in many ways that range from discrimination and contempt to physical or psychological aggression and murder.
Developing
The origin of gender violence arises due to the subordination that women have suffered throughout history, since since the first centuries the woman has had roles related to the scope of the home and dependent on the man. At the beginning of history, in places like Rome, Greece or Sparta women were considered a mere thing. Later, from the fourth century DC, it is expressed in the Qur’an how men have authority over women by virtue of the preference that Allah has already given each other of the goods they spend. It will already be in the Middle Ages when the ideas of inequality of women are strengthened: the idea that man has a greater value than the woman is socially accepted and the empowerment of the man about the woman is encouraged, since she barely had rights.
Unfortunately, they will have to spend many centuries until it is in the mid -nineteenth century when women begin. During the nineteenth century, historical milestones such as the convocation of the Sheffield Assembly in England stood out in 1851 or the celebration in 1848 of the Convention on Women’s Rights in New York City, where the declaration ofSeneca Falls, one of the most important texts that deals with the theme of feminist voting and ideology in North America.
It is in the twentieth century, especially in recent years, when decisive against men who decide to attempt against women were obtained. On March 8, 1908, International Worker Women. Nine years later, in the Russian revolution of 1917 the equality between men and women is recognized in the institutionalized theoretical level. In addition, many Western countries begin to recognize women’s suffrage such as New Zealand in 1893, England in 1918 or the United States in 1920. Finally, in 1954 Resolution 843 of the United Nations General Assembly on the condition of women in private law: customs.
Unfortunately, in Spain, the tradition and the great influence of the Catholic religion in society hindered the appearance of a feminist or suffragist movement as strong as those that arise in other countries in Europe. Even so, figures such as Mariana Pineda, who died from his liberal ideals, Concepción Arenal, which in 1841 a man was made to go to university, Teresa Claramunt, promoter of the Association of Women Workers in theYear 1891, or Emilia Pardo Bazán, first university professor who stood out for her intelligence and for her great contribution to the struggle for the defense of women’s rights. And, above all, the figure of Clara Campoamor must be remembered. Clara Campoamor was a writer, politics and defender of the rights of Spanish women. He founded the Women’s Republican Union and thanks to his struggle for women’s rights, he ended up achieving women’s suffrage in Spain in 1931, which women exercised for the first time in the 1933 elections.
conclusion
However, despite this backwardness in the appearance of the feminist movement, during the twentieth and twenty -centuries there have been many measures that have contributed to greater equality between men and women. For example, in 1910 the woman began to access the university. Three years later, Virginia González will be the first woman to be part of a political party, specifically the PSOE. In 1918, women can work for the first time as an official and in 1923 it occupies parliamentary seats for the first time.
Later, in 1931 with the Second Republic, women are finally recognized the right to vote, giving rise to legal equality between men and women. During the last years of Franco, in 1966, women obtain access to the judiciary and in 1971 the first judge in Spain was appointed. Finally, with the reforms in the Civil Code in the years 1975 and 1981, decriminalization is achieved in the Criminal Code of Adultery and Amancebación.
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