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Women in Lebanon are treated according to patriarchal norms although the legal status of women has improved since the 20th century. Gender equality in Lebanon remains problematic. [ 3 ] Active feminist movements exist in Lebanon which are trying to overcome the legal and sociopolitical discrimination enshrined in law.
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
Zahia Kaddoura (1920–2002; Arabic: زاهية قدورة) was a Lebanese academic and a human and women's rights advocate. She served as a dean of the Lebanese University, and was the first woman to do so. Kaddoura was also the first Lebanese woman to earn a PhD from an Egyptian university.
The Lebanese Council of Women or Lebanese Women's Council (LWC) is a women's organization in Lebanon, founded in 1952. It is an umbrella organization for the Lebanese women's movement. In 1946, the Syrian-Lebanese Women's Union split in the Lebanese Women's Union and Christian Women's Solidarity Association , who in turn created LWC by merging ...
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.
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]
The Syrian-Lebanese Women's Union (al-Ittihad al-Nisa'i al-Suri al-Lubnani) was a women's organization in Lebanon and Syria, founded in the 1920s and active until 1946. It has also been called Lebanese Women’s Union , Syro-Lebanese Feminist Union , Syrian Arab Women's Union and Arab Women’s Union .