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German President’s wife calls for forcing men to support women!
31-1-2018
The Lebanese First Lady, Nadia Chami Aoun, brought together the wife of the German President Judge Elke Budenbender and a number of Lebanese women judges for a conversation at the Baabda Palace to exchange views and experience. Women present discussed their roles in defending women’s rights in Lebanon up to achieving the principle of gender equality and the various challenges they face in this regard. They also deliberated the role of the judiciary in sustaining the right of women to hold senior posts in the sector and in protecting women, underage girls and juveniles from violence and abuse. During the gathering, Budenbender who has an extensive experience in administrative courts, noted large similarity in figures between Lebanon and Germany in relation to the rate of women’s participation in the judiciary, including senior positions and court presidency (50%). She said women are naturally inclined to relinquish their career life for the sake of the family, despite that in Germany they enjoy long maternity leaves and fathers have their paternal leaves as well. Budenbender also pressed the need that men support their wives in this direction, and called for enforcing a women’s representation quota in Lebanon, referring to her country’s successful experience in this area after having forged a big change in the public sector. "We have to force men to support women, for the latter have the same aptitudes as men," she concluded. (Al Mustaqbal, January 31, 2018)
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