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Egyptian women still prisoners of archaic restrictions
23-2-2018
In its issue of yesterday, Al Hayat newspaper wrote about the life of Egyptian women in general who are unable to be independent life or take personal decisions, as simple as choosing their own attire, working or moving freely in the streets. Society acts as a permanent custodian which judges women She finds herself at the end of the day gripped by a resident partner, society, which judges women according to its own priorities, Al Hayat wrote. According to society’s rules, women could either accomplished housewives, beauty queens or professional career women unfit to be good wives. This society, the newspaper went on to say, has in the past two decades witnessed painstaking efforts to empower women economically and was largely inspired by the campaigns to promote the education of women and girls. Nevertheless, Egyptian women still weigh heavily under societal obstructions which are a blend of outdated traditions and hardline customs, and this, the newspaper said, needs to give precedence to socio-cultural empowerment and to allow the homecoming of enlightenment that reigned in the fifties of the past century. To conclude, AL Hayat quoted Rahaf Saadi (28 years) who said: “I feel that I am being watched all the time, what I wear, when I return home, how I speak… “ (For the full article, kindly visit the link below: https://goo.gl/kHYBA3). (Al Hayat, February 22, 2018)
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