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Women in Senegal have a traditional social status as shaped by local custom and religion. According to 2005 survey, the female genital mutilation prevalence rate stands at 28% of all women in Senegal aged between 15 and 49.
Despite governmental laws, outdated and incorrect perceptions of Sharia Law still enjoy a higher profile in many parts of Senegal. For example, they believe this law prohibits women from owning property or inheriting land from their fathers and husbands, although Islamic inheritance jurisprudence is widely disputed and has many laws that encourage women's inheritance. [1]
YY opposed polygamy, support women's rights of contraception and abortion, equal rights for women and men in politics and in salaries. Gueye and Ba see YY as having successfully created "national and international momentum" in improving women's status. [1] According to Gueye and Ba, YY membership was mostly elite and leftist.
Women's rights in Senegal (3 C, 3 P) Pages in category "History of women in Senegal" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
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The colonial roots of gender inequality refers to the political, educational, and economic inequalities between men and women in Africa.According to a Global Gender Gap Index [1] report published in 2018, it would take 135 years to close the gender gap in Sub-Saharan Africa and nearly 153 years in North Africa.
Senegal has a high rate of infanticide, which is often attributed to the lack of legal abortion. In the 2010s and 2020s, many infant corpses have been discovered in landfills and other places. Women charged with infanticide comprise over one-third of all arrested women.