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This is due to Lebanese personal status laws, through which Lebanese women's citizenship are subject to their husband's and father's personal status. [33] This personal status depends on men's legal sectarian affiliation. For example, Lebanese women cannot pass on their Lebanese nationality to their non-Lebanese husband or their children. [34]
Salima Abi Rashed (1887–1919; Arabic: سليمة أبي راشد), was a Lebanese lawyer and journalist, considered the country's first female lawyer. She founded one of Lebanon's earliest women's magazines, Fatat Lobnan, in 1914.
Mario El-Khoury – Lebanese-Swiss engineer and business executive; Hassan Kamel Al-Sabbah – Lebanese-American electrical and electronic engineer and technology innovator known for receiving 43 patents in television transmission; Nadim Kobeissi – French-Lebanese computer science researcher specialized in applied cryptography
Labibah Thabit, was a Lebanese women's rights activist. She was a pioneer figure of feminism in her country. She was the co-founder of the pioneering Syrian-Lebanese Women's Union upon its foundation in 1920, and served as its first President. She was a pioneering figure of the first organized women's movement in Lebanon and Syria. [1]
Arab women are under-represented in parliaments in Arab states, although they are gaining more equal representation as Arab states liberalise their political systems. In 2005, the International Parliamentary Union said that 6.5 per cent of MPs in the Arabic-speaking world were women, up from 3.5 per cent in 2000.
also: People: By gender: Women: By nationality: Lebanese This category exists only as a container for other categories of Lebanese women . Articles on individual women should not be added directly to this category, but may be added to an appropriate sub-category if it exists.
also: People: By gender: Women: By nationality: By occupation: Lebanese This category exists only as a container for other categories of Lebanese women . Articles on individual women should not be added directly to this category, but may be added to an appropriate sub-category if it exists.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Lebanese activists. It includes women activists that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Subcategories