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Women in Morocco are often forced to endure harassment when they go out in public. Often the sexual harassment takes the form of name calling. To fight this abusive, misogynistic culture, a number of Moroccan women have stood up to their abusers. The culture of sitting at a café had been dominated by men for a long time.
The women and wife's role are to care for and discipline the children while maintaining home for her family and husband. Because islamic law taught that husband is above wife under God, women are subordinate to men in this patriarchal society. In 2004 the government of Morocco introduced a new "family code" known as the Moudawana. This code in ...
Most women's organizations in Morocco receive external funding, whether from the government, various Moroccan political parties, or international actors such as USAID, the European Development Bank, and the World Bank, which has left them open to criticisms that their agendas are tied to the sources of their funding and therefore compromised. [9]
Other Moroccan women magazines include Citadine ("Citizen" founded in 1995, with 8.000 copies sold), Ousra ("Family", in Arabic) and Parade, all of them published in French, [10] and Citadine (Arabic version, around 5.600 copies sold), Lalla Fatima (around 34.000 copies), and Nissae Min Al Maghrib (around 36.000 copies), in Arabic language.
Women government ministers of Morocco (15 P) M. Women mayors of places in Morocco (4 P) Pages in category "Moroccan women in politics"
The BBC has apologized for an “inappropriate” question one of its reporters asked the captain of the Morocco women’s national team.
In 2004, the Moroccan parliament took steps to improve the status of women and children, [16] and has passed a new family law, Mudawanat al Usra (English: Family Code), which is widely regarded as very progressive by regional standards. For example, men are now permitted only one wife unless their wife signs an agreement.
The Democratic Association of Moroccan Women was founded in Rabat in 1985. Its co-founders included Rabia Nacir, Amina Lamrini, Farida Bennani, [2] and Najia Zirari. As an organization, the ADFM grew out of the women's section of the Party of Progress and Socialism (PPS). Amina Lamrini was a member of the PPS central committee, and the ADFM has ...