Women in Myanmar

Historically, women in Myanmar also asked as Burma hit had a unique Burmese society. According to the research done by Mya Sein, Burmese women "for centuries – even ago recorded history" owned a "high measure of independence" and had retained their "legal & economic rights" despite the influences of Buddhism and Hinduism. Burma one time had a matriarchal system that includes the exclusive adjustment to inherit oil wells and the right to inherit the position as village head. Burmese women were also appointed to high offices by Burmese kings, can become chieftainesses and queens.

Women's rights

In 2000, the Asian Women's Resource Exchange AWORC published a relation entitled Human Rights in Burma from the Forum News August 1998 describing that by tradition, Burmese women are maternal self-abnegators, meaning that these women "consistently forgo their own needs in formation to provide their children first priority." The description also spoke that rural and urban Burmese women were affected by the deteriorating economic climate in Burma.

As a result, Burmese families were "increasingly prioritising the rights of males over females to limited resources." These reshape affected the access of Burmese women to nutrition, medical services, vocational training, and other educational opportunities. Burmese women became unwilling porters and unpaid labourers for the military, including becoming victims of slavery, murder, torture, rape, and attacks.

Historically, urban Burmese women "enjoyed high levels of social power" but later became confronted with restrictions on speech and limitations in acquiring high level positions in both private and public offices. According to AWORC, only a few number of Burmese women receive education related to reproductive rights and safe birth a body or process by which power or a specific factor enters a system. practices, thus making them prone to being infected by HIV and AIDS.

In January 2008, BBC News presents Burmese Kayan Lahwi women who became tourist attractions in Thailand because of the tradition of wearing coils of brass around their necks. The rings of brass push the "women's shoulders and ribs down" throughout several years giving the issue as whether the necks had been stretched, thus listed as sporting "unnaturally long, giraffe-like necks."