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Analysts believe that women's inability to accumulate wealth has allowed for gender inequality to persist on the continent. According to the World Bank, 37% of women in Sub-Sahara Africa have a bank account, compared to 48% of men. [47] These percentages are even lower for women in North Africa where two-thirds of the population remains unbanked.
In Arab-Muslim majority countries, racism against Black Muslims and Asian Muslims, especially South Asian Muslims, is often ubiquitous. Racist attitudes and oppression perpetrated in the Arab-Muslim world against Black Muslims is deeply connected to the long legacy of the Trans-Saharan slave trade , the Red Sea slave trade , and the Indian ...
Abdel Halim, Asma Mohamed. "Women's Organizations Seeking Gender Justice in the Sudan, 1964–1985.” Review of African Political Economy no.121 (2009): 389–407. Badri, Haga Kashif. Women's Movement in the Sudan. 2d ed. Omdurman: MOB Center for Sudanese Studies, 2009. El-Tayib, Griselda. Women's education in the Sudan. Kano Studies, 1, 1965: ...
The ways the Muslims were persecuted included banning the repair of old mosques and preventing new ones from being constructed, banning serfdom of Christians under Muslims, banning marriage of Christian females to Muslims, putting limitations on property ownership among Tatars and the Polish–Ottoman Wars fed into the discriminatory atmosphere ...
Women's roles in African independence movements were diverse and varied by each country. Many women believed that their liberation was directly linked to the liberation of their countries. [1] Women participated in various anti-colonial roles, ranging from grassroots organising to providing crucial support during the struggle for independence.
Michelle Byng, in "Mediating Discrimination: Oppression among African-American Muslim Women"—the 1998 article—brings to focus new approaches to understanding discrimination, but also, she writes to illustrate the many overlooked opportunities in which the discriminated are able to empower themselves in certain situations.
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Since the mid-nineteenth century, Muslim women and men have been critical of restrictions placed on women regarding education, seclusion, veiling, polygyny, slavery, and concubinage. Modern Muslims have questioned these practices and advocated for reform. [1] There is an ongoing debate about the status of women in Islam.