Thailand is a middle-income country in Southeast Asia that is located to the southeast of
Myanmar, the southwest of Laos and the north of Cambodia. The country is historically known
for its discrimination of women, as men play a dominant role in this culture. This discrimination
is most prevalent in politics, at home, the work place. Thailand is also well-known for its high
rate of human trafficking, mostly for prostitution. Women were granted equal rights for the first
time in the 1997 constitution, which was reconfirmed in the 2007 constitution, however,
stereotypes and prejudice against women are still wide spread.1 As of 2010, women represented
only 13.3 percent of seats in Thailand’s national parliament.2
There is not a lot of oversight and
enforcement of the equality clause in the constitution.