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When the Veil DropsMen had the right to kill a wife who was only suspected of being adultery - this rule still exists in some cultures today.Aristotle said women should not bother the brain with politics as this would tap and dry up the womb.Hundreds of millions of women still live under slave-like conditions in parts of Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia.About one-third of women worldwide have experienced physical and/or sexual violence by an intimate partner at some point in their lives.In 2017, Russian President Vladimir Putin downgraded domestic violence as an act worthy of punishment with a fine, rather than imprisonment.Article 1 of the United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women defines VAW as: any act of gender-based violence resulting in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, either occurring in public or in private life. (UN 1993) Likewise, domestic violence is defined as: physical, sexual and psychological violence occurring in the family, including battering, sexual abuse of female children in the household, dowry related violence, marital rape, female genital mutilation and other traditional practices that are harmful for women, non-violence use and violence related to exploitation. (UN 1993)The woman carried the original chromosome. Her mother carried the human spur of human communication and social organization, despite the fact that the only star in dawn history has been the man hunter, tool-maker, origin of the species. It was the woman's work, her skills, her biology that held the key to our destiny. Women are the breed itself, the strong primary sex, and the man the biological afterthought. Female is the basic X chromosome a female baby collects just another X at the moment of conception, while the creation of a male requires branching of divergent Y, seen by some as a genetic error, a deformed broken X.The woman's eggs, several hundred times larger than the sperm, carry all the genetic messages the child will ever receive. Women are therefore the original, the first sex. India's vast size and strongly rooted history in patriarchiate means that conditions for women vary a good deal from one end to the other. Equal rights exist for women according to the Indian constitution, but difficulties for Indian women are still abundant - 68 per cent of women in the world's second-largest nation suffer from some kind of domestic violence and it continues to grow. Dated traditions also attempt to discourage giving birth to daughters, and 300 to 600 thousand pregnancies with female foetuses end each year, according to The Lancet.In Iran politcal women are tortured and raped before execution. Especially young women. They rape 9 year old women in prison because it's against God if they execute a virgin. Women are attacked in various terrible ways, like acid is thrown in the face, hair is burned if it is not covered. That means that just being a woman in Iran is a political crime.The World Economic Forum (WEF)'s annual Gender Gap Report ranked the tiny Middle Eastern nation of Yemen as the worst for women out of the 136 countries listed. Access to education for girls is severely restricted, as many are married before they reach their eighteenth birthday, leaving the female literacy rate with a dismal 35 per cent. As you can imagine, these statistics continue to hurt women later in life - the pay gap is astronomical, and women earn only 30 percent of what men do.