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Voted the third most influential Arab Women's List in the MENA region by Forbes Middle East in 2013, [113] and in 2018, [110] Mona is a member of the board of directors for BMMI and Ebda Bank besides other companies. She is well known for her charity work and frequently speaks about the role of women in building a better society today.
Many female Bangladeshi workers in the Middle East become pregnant after being sexually abused by their employers. [13] More than 100 Bangladeshi female labourers were living in shelters in Saudi Arabia and said that they suffered all kinds of abuse there, including sexual exploitation. [23]
When aggregated by region, North Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia, the three regions with the most and highest density of Muslims in the world, have the highest rates of female unemployment in the world. [31] In North Africa, 17% of females are unemployed and 16% of women in the Middle East are unemployed. [31]
Three Muslim women in 19th-century clothing. The middle woman is from Mecca; the other two are Syrian. Western critics often compare the treatment of Saudi women to a system of apartheid, analogous with South Africa's treatment of non-whites during South Africa's apartheid era. As evidence, they cite restrictions on travel, fields of study ...
The UAE ranked first in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region in the economic participation of women in the World Bank's 2021 'Women, Business and the Law' report. [64] The country also announced on March 15, 2021, a list of companies that must have at least one female board member, but by May 2021, only four of the 23 people holding ...
The study follows last August's report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealing that 1 in 5 women in the U.S. feels mistreated during their maternity care. For Black, Hispanic ...
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.
Women throughout the Middle East earn less than men although there are labour laws in place that dictate equal opportunities for promotion and training and equal pay for the same type of work. These labour laws are frequently violated in regards to not only salary but also benefits such as loans for senior officials or housing allowances. [ 24 ]