Spinsterhood Research Paper

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Name:Maram Ahmed Fathy
ID: 2014/00628
Faculty: Pharmacy
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Spinsterhood Marriage is important but not very necessary as lot of people think. Some women marry because it is necessary to have children and for a stable life. Also woman may choose not to marry because she didn’t find the suitable man she dreams with , it is also expected that once the woman got married she has to leave work and care about her husband and children only. So spinsterhood is a wrong word for describing the single woman or word “Anas” as Arab society as it is a word which hurt this woman as our society don’t describe woman by her her success but by her marital status. Spinsterhood has mainly increased because girls decided to focus on her their
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A speaker in TEDX TALK said that “May we all meet together to see all Egyptian women make a difference” without a man as she isn’t a spinster , she is independent woman and has her own success and life . Another speaker said that a woman doesn’t need someone to tell her she is worth her success, independence and dreams or not s society always tell women to lower their level of dreams to find a suitable groom but why don’t men raise their ceilings?. Every girl is the star of her film, the hero of her own story and she is only who has the right to decide what society can tell her and what can’t be told by as she is someone who has being tired to reach this success by her own work and made what a man can’t make . …show more content…
Many people discussed the problem of spinsterhood in Middle East either ordinary people, authors like “Ghada Abd El Aal” , ministers as “Amna Fatani” the first labour minister in Saudi Arabia and even TEDX talk talked about this and specially the word “Anas” which a lot of single women hate because of it’s bad effect on personality and feelings. Also government should work more on decreasing “spinsterhood” instead of calling her “Anas” and in Saudi Arabia “Dawry” should pay more money for the bride to help them get married, Also government should increase the vacancies for youth and increase salaries to help them afford a house and getting “Mahr” . In my opinion first of all the word “spinsterhood” isn’t a suitable word for describing a single girl ,we can call her “A girl who didn’t find a suitable man yet” it is more better describtion and if she didn’t find him there is no need for getting Marriage even she is young or old. Secondly in my opinion there is no need for marrying a person you don’t love or even know him

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