Women in the Arab World »
Posted By tehranchik 8 months, 2 weeks ago in Political NewsIn some respects, the Arab region is the same place for women that it was 86 years ago. In the more conservative parts of the Arab region, most particularly Saudi Arabia, women are not allowed to drive a car, sail a boat or fly a plane. They still cannot expose hair, wrists and ankles in public, or travel without the permission of a male relative: usually a father, husband or – in some ways more constraining for its role reversal – a son.
Saudi Arabia is not alone in segregating the sexes in many public settings, ranging from schools and universities to restaurants and banks. And despite some incremental reforms in family law across the Gulf region, a woman who angers her husband is still prone to the "triple talaq," the controversial oral divorce, with little to no recourse to alimony.
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ur-land-is-my-land8 months, 2 weeks ago
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Among 22 Arab countries to pick Saudi Arabia as an exmaple is like to pick rich sections of Beverly Hills in LA and depict the whole LA as one like that.
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There is no doubt that women in Arab countries have many fights to fight but this article could have said something about women in say Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Jordan, Algiers, Libya and....if the numbero of women in university in Qatar is three times more than the number of men,then the article should have spent more time explaining the reason for this and its implications and ...
Status of women in Saudi Arabia is almost light years away and worse from other Arab countires, and it is not fair to compare.
Ironically these ultra conservative male shuvinists in these Arab countries have their counterpart in Israeli society too. Jewish ultraconservatives are still trying to segregate men and women educational institutions, pools, buses, working places, :)
the lates episod ewas the infamous picture of current Israeli government who photoshopped the picture of the cabinet memebrs to delete the picture of women in it just to cater to these ultraconservatives.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/03/israel-wo...
In Israel today, a childless woman who loses her husband, according to law, automatically becomes her breother in laws wife and it ishim who has to decide if he wants to sleep with her or diverce her and as long as he has not divorced her she cannot remarry ..but no matter what Arab women have real major fights to fights , the worst fights in Saudi Arabia. -
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Ratskii8 months, 2 weeks ago
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Thank you for showing the progress that Islamic women are making in many countries. It is my belief that we can help further that progress by engaging Islamic countries in a fashion that encourages those who are more inclined to tolerance and discouraging those who want to turn back the clock 15 centuries.
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