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Unemployment among women in the Middle East is twice that of men, pointing to low wages, a lack of skills and a belief among some that a woman's place is in the home. [ 78 ] Gender inequality remains a major concern in the region, which has the lowest female economic participation in the world (27% of females in the region participate in the ...
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Qasim Amin is considered the father of women's reform in the Muslim Middle East, challenging societal norms in his book The Liberation of Women. [11] Amongst these two male leaders were also three Egyptian women, Maryam al-Nahhas, Zaynab Fawwaz, and Aisha al-Taymuriyya, who worked for the Islamic feminism movement in the late 19th century.
Women's rights in the Middle East. Subcategories. This category has the following 18 subcategories, out of 18 total. ...
Women in war in the Middle East (6 C, 50 P) B. Bahraini women (3 C, 10 P) C. Cypriot women (7 C, 6 P) E. Egyptian women (14 C, 7 P) Emirati women (5 C ...
Women taking part in a pro-democracy sit-in in Sitra, Bahrain. Women played a variety of roles in the Arab Spring, but its impact on women and their rights is unclear. The Arab Spring was a series of demonstrations, protests, and civil wars against authoritarian regimes that started in Tunisia and spread to much of the Arab world.
In Women & Words in Saudi Arabia: The Politics of Literary Discourse, Arebi employs the Foucauldian notion of discourse to analyze how Saudi women writers comprehend their position within larger contexts of power and perceive their work as creative or journalistic writers as a means of disturbing the "verbal machinery" in charge of theorizing women's roles and behavior.
Becoming at RayKo Photo Center, San Francisco She Who Tells a Story exhibited at National Museum of Women in the Arts. Rania Matar (born 1964) is a Lebanese/Palestinian/American documentary, portrait and fine art photographer. She photographs the daily lives of girls and women in the Middle East and in the United States, including Syrian ...