Women totally excluded from high positions at Lebanese Universities

The coordinator of the network of university women affiliated to the Agence universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF), Leila Saadeh, noted that no women at all are appointed in high level positions in Lebanese universities. Saadeh added during the regional conference entitled “Academic women, women of power” held by the AUF in Dakar on November 13 and 14, and attended by 24 women from 15 countries, that this situation prevails not only in Lebanon but in all other countries.
Saadeh also noted that the academic world is discriminatory against women par excellence, and that only the level of discrimination differs from one country to the other.  Finally, Saadeh suggested that AUF places conditionality on its support to universities in Lebanon by including clauses that will ensure gender equality.
Source: L’Orient Le Jour 4 December 2014