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Iraqi women ambitious to work before marriage
20-3-2018
Al Hayat newspaper published yesterday a feature on young Iraqi women in general who choose to get a job after graduation or even during their senior year before getting wed. The newspaper wrote, that while a number of young Iraqi men wish to marry a working girl to share household responsibilities, yet many want their wives to leave work after marriage in order to raise the children and do the housework as they presumably got used to their permanent presence at home. Al Hayat spoke to Dima Ahmad (22 years) in her senior year at the Department of Pathological Analysis, Baghdad University. Dima stressed that securing a job in the public or private sector after graduation will definitely protect her from the patriarchal hegemony of a husband who objects to his wife’s working. If she gets engaged while working, the partner cannot object later on as he approved her working prior to marriage. Similarly, Salma Ahmad boasted to Al Hayat reporter that she confronted her husband who asked her to quit her job after marriage and become a full-time mom. “When you married me I had a job, and we did not talk about me leaving my job,” she challenged her husband. The article is on the following link: : https://goo.gl/PNb24c. (Al Hayat, March 19, 2018)
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