[This article is part of a symposium: Should the International Legal Regime Accept a Collective or Individual Paradigm to Protect Women’s Rights?]The article takes the position that women’s rights are individual rights. Stemming from the idea that individualism and collectivism are not a dichotomy, but rather a continuum, the author goes on to illustrate that the tension between the two does not simply exist between the West and the non-Western world. Furthermore, the author asserts that to group ‘women’ into a common collectivity is artificial.