Detail Now is the Time; Women and the Arab Awakening   Oleh:  [s.n] Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 400 no. 8755 (Oct. 2011), page 23-26. Topik: Women; Human Rights; Revolutions Ketersediaan Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: EE29.68 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada     Lihat Detail Induk Isi artikel The position of women in the Arab world has long been difficult. In 2002 the first Arab Human Development Report cited the lack of women's rights as one of three factors, along with lack of political freedoms and poor education, that most hampered the region's progress. Amid the loud calls for democracy in the early days of the uprisings, little was said specifically about women's rights. But now that constitutions are being rewritten, many women in Egypt and Tunisia, whose revolutions are most advanced, hope to push their own liberation. Today Egypt's women may work outside the home, go to school and university, and are free to vote and run in all elections. But women's literacy stands at just 58%, and only 23% of workers are women. The country's laws are a mixed bag. The constitution outlaws discrimination on the grounds of sex, but women are entitled to inherit only half as much as men. The condition of Tunisia's women, by contrast, is unmatched in the Arab world. That is mostly thanks to Habib Bourguiba, the founding father of the modern Tunisian state, who outlawed polygamy, granted women equal divorce rights and legalised abortion. Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia's toppled dictator, continued Bourguiba's work, expanding parental, divorce and custody rights for women and promoting their education and employment. Odd as it seems, the new parity laws are likely mostly to benefit Islamist parties. Nahda (Awakening), Tunisia's main Islamist group, is the only party big enough to field male and female candidates in all constituencies. Smaller parties will struggle to put women on their lists and, without them, they will be disbarred. Even the Progressive Democratic Party, the one Tunisian party with a female leader, has women topping only three of its 33 lists. Opini Anda Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini! Kembali

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