The Egyptian her
The last seven years in Egypt were similar to a hopeless aged disease for the equality between men and women in the Arab world. Although women had a vital role in the Arab spring, they still struggle for the basic rights to live. In fact, this problem threatens many standards in a young woman’s dreams and visions of becoming an important person in life. Gender inequality against women is an actual major issue in Egypt and it’s nothing new when talking about the Egyptian flooding river of problems that all Egyptians have been used to through the decades. “Gender inequality refers to unequal treatment or perceptions of individuals based on their gender. It grows from differences in socially constructed gender roles.”(Wood, 2005). …show more content…
Firstly, sexual harassment is one of the most complicated problems that created a great echo through the time. A survey in 2011 of youth affirmed that sexual harassment was admitted by 13.5% of women to be the ultimate risk they could face on Egypt's streets on a daily basis. Whereas asserted to be the greatest risk by 15.9% of women when using bus transportation and using train held the largest quantity of women, with more than 23% of them agrees that it’s to be the most serious risk (Population Council, 2014). Moreover, in 2013, a UN survey found that sexual harassment was reported experiencing from more than 99 per cent of Egyptian women (Aspden, 2016). “According to the government’s own research, 91 per cent of women between 15 and 49 have been subject to FGM” (Aspden, 2016). Secondly, wrong interpretation of religion takes a vital role in many of the major problems in Egypt. Since Egypt is an Islamic country, Islamic Sharia holds a not underestimated part in the Egyptian Law, whereas, provides for equality between the sexes, at the same time, many feminism aspects may be discriminated due to wrong interpretations of the religion. Furthermore, when it comes to family matters, women are mostly the victims of inequality. Women in Egypt have a protection level of physical integrity on a very low scale (Suleiman, 2014). Consequently, the percentages of women who reports experiencing sexual harassment have nowhere else to go more than it already is, it’s perhaps the utmost that any nation could get to, also, religion makes a huge difference when understood
The last seven years in Egypt were similar to a hopeless aged disease for the equality between men and women in the Arab world. Although women had a vital role in the Arab spring, they still struggle for the basic rights to live. In fact, this problem threatens many standards in a young woman’s dreams and visions of becoming an important person in life. Gender inequality against women is an actual major issue in Egypt and it’s nothing new when talking about the Egyptian flooding river of problems that all Egyptians have been used to through the decades. “Gender inequality refers to unequal treatment or perceptions of individuals based on their gender. It grows from differences in socially constructed gender roles.”(Wood, 2005). …show more content…
Firstly, sexual harassment is one of the most complicated problems that created a great echo through the time. A survey in 2011 of youth affirmed that sexual harassment was admitted by 13.5% of women to be the ultimate risk they could face on Egypt's streets on a daily basis. Whereas asserted to be the greatest risk by 15.9% of women when using bus transportation and using train held the largest quantity of women, with more than 23% of them agrees that it’s to be the most serious risk (Population Council, 2014). Moreover, in 2013, a UN survey found that sexual harassment was reported experiencing from more than 99 per cent of Egyptian women (Aspden, 2016). “According to the government’s own research, 91 per cent of women between 15 and 49 have been subject to FGM” (Aspden, 2016). Secondly, wrong interpretation of religion takes a vital role in many of the major problems in Egypt. Since Egypt is an Islamic country, Islamic Sharia holds a not underestimated part in the Egyptian Law, whereas, provides for equality between the sexes, at the same time, many feminism aspects may be discriminated due to wrong interpretations of the religion. Furthermore, when it comes to family matters, women are mostly the victims of inequality. Women in Egypt have a protection level of physical integrity on a very low scale (Suleiman, 2014). Consequently, the percentages of women who reports experiencing sexual harassment have nowhere else to go more than it already is, it’s perhaps the utmost that any nation could get to, also, religion makes a huge difference when understood