Women and Their Property Rights - Albanian Case (original) (raw)

This publication presents the importance of the women's property rights and also the current situation of this right with a special focus in Albania. This paper focuses on a much neglected issue: the links between gender inequities and command over property. Although in most countries of the world, in terms of legality, property rights is a constitutional one guaranteed, in practice women in most countries suffers real scarcity of it, from which derive a variety of negative consequences such are; economic dependence, acceptance of domestic violence, discrimination, etc. This situation derives from a complex range of factorssocial, administrative, and ideological-are found to underlie the persistent gap between women's legal rights and their actual ownership of property, and between ownership and control. The History of World Civilization presents surprising facts regarding property rights for women. Starting in Ancient Egypt (3100 BC), they had equal property rights with men, these rights were overshadowed by a historical period to another, reaching the critical level during the period of ancient Greece and by taking different curves up and downs until today. A special place in this paper takes the Albanian case, which refers consistent generally to the global situation. The analysis is based on secondary data collecting from reports or other studies which are analyzed by comparing them to come to the conclusion. The paper concludes that the women's property right it is one of the fundamental rights, very crucial, from which derives more