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Increased duties for Syrian women but no improvement in their legal status
31-8-2018
In a special article today on Syrian women breadwinners, Al Akhbar newspaper pointed out to the present emergency and disastrous situation that have challenged the traditional reproductive roles of women. Conservative communities, the newspaper wrote, were forced to accept the idea of women working in a mixed environment to provide for their families in the absence of male wage earners. Breaking taboos was not the result of feminist movement activities, but rather due to growing responsibilities on women, however, their status in Syrian laws did not improve, Al Akhbar said. It stressed that the arrival of a number of women to top leadership positions in the country did not generate any civil progress. No real efforts have been made to amend or change the personal status laws, despite its obvious injustice vis-à-vis the rights of Syrian women, Al Akhbar wrote. In the details, the newspaper mentioned that with the arrival of Hadiya Abbas to the presidency of the people’s assembly a few years ago, there was some optimism at first but which was not based on solid grounds. This achievement made by Syrian women, compared to neighboring countries, did not have positive impact on her daily reality, as senior posts have rarely been given to human rights advocates or activists campaigning for the civil rights of women, the newspaper concluded. The feature can be found on the following link: https://goo.gl/pcyAdb. (Al Akhbar, August 31, 2018)
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