This book is as important as any in the study of discrimination.Of all deprived
groups in the world today,women seem to have suffered the most throughout
history.Racial, ethnic, and religious discrimination have produced numerous
victims, but women, members of a majority group, have suffered even more than
memebers of these minority groups.This Encyclopaedia is divided into five
volumes covering different laws,rights and how the discrimination has done
aganist women.But the denial of the rights of women around the wprld has not
been seen as amjor feature of human rights. A comprehensive and comparative
analysis of the rights of women, and of the abuse of those rights, meet