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Undermining gender identity of women in public space
22-7-2019
In an article in Al Akhbar daily, columnist Ahmad Mohsen shed light on the gender discrimination against women in public life, in terms of language and gender. Mohsen mentioned the absence of the linguistic feminine affix for the title of a female director in Fakhredine Public High School for Girls. He also pointed to the Council of Ministers website, where in the published decrees, they refer to the appointment of the minister of interior (without accentuating the feminine title) in relation to the female minister of interior, Raya Hassan, and this applies to other female colleagues as well. If the Lebanese government truly promotes ‘gender equality in language’, it ought not choose the masculine (which is the general norm) over the feminine expressions, but opt to invent new answers, Mohsen wrote. He drew attention to the effortless aiming at a woman before scrutinizing what she said or wrote, contrary to how a male is treated usually. He gave MPs Dima Jamali and Roula Tabsh as two examples for this discrimination. If the tweeter, or if the member of the Legislature having coffee publicly during Ramadan were males, the reaction would not be the same. There are reasons for this prejudiced attitude, Mohsen explained, which regrettably and definitely is not out of concern for the image of a woman. Should this be the case, he said, the argument would be restricted to this aspect and would take cover in politics to criticize the woman in an attempt to shake or shatter her image publicly, and to endorse dominance and supremacy over her physical presence. The article can be found on the following link: :https://bit.ly/30Pwxwx. (Al Akhbar, July 18, 2019)
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