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The gender gap with regard to Iraq's literacy rate is narrowing. Overall, 26% of Iraqi women are illiterate, and 11% of Iraqi men. For youth aged 15–24 years, the literacy rate is 80% for young women, and 85% for young men. [ 30 ]
The first women's organization in Iraq was founded in 1923, and Iraqi women gained purchase in political and social spaces by participating strongly in the country's independence movement. From the beginning of the British occupation, through the mandate period , and up into the era of Iraqi independence (both pre- and post-revolution), women ...
Toggle History of women in the Arab world subsection. ... reforming and standardizing gender roles throughout the region. ... In Iraq, from 7,625 in 1965 to 28,267 in ...
Naziha Jawdat Ishg al-Dulaimi (Arabic: نزيهة جودت عشق الدليمي; 1923 – 9 October 2007) was an early pioneer of the Iraqi feminist movement. She was a co-founder and the first president of the Iraqi Women's League, [2] the first woman minister in modern Iraq history, and the first woman cabinet minister in the Arab world.
Da'ud's father Ahmad al-Shaikh Da'ud was among the Iraqi leaders arrested during the 1920 Iraqi revolt and subsequently exiled. Her mother, Na'ima Sultan Hamuda, was also politically active: in 1919 she encouraged Gertrude Bell to provide education for girls, in 1920 she headed a Baghdad women's committee to support the revolt, and in 1923 she was one of the founding members of the Women's ...
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Pages in category "History of women in Iraq" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. O.
According to Laetitia Nanquette of SOAS, despite the fact that "from around the 1990s up to the present day, women have been the primary writers of Iranian fiction," they have mostly been absent from Iranian literature about the war, which "is usually written by men and contains nationalistic discourses, coupled with the discourse of martyrdom as the way to defend the version of Islam promoted ...