Women Rights in The Middle East

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Introduction

Gender refers to socially constructed roles and learned behaviors and expectations associated with females and males . Mostly , when people talk about gender they concentrate much on gender inequality- women and girls having fewer opportunities in life simply because they are female However the word gender also refers to men and boys who are equally defined by the rights and roles assigned to them . Giving equal rights to women and girls should not mean denying men the same . In the Middle East

there is no gender equality , but the phenomena of sexism and misogyny are global and not only peculiar to Islam or to Middle East . The status of women in the Middle East varies greatly and the norms of one region should not be projected to the larger Muslim world . Many of the reasons for inferior status of women in the Middle East are native but also the west has exacerbated this oppression . The Middle East is predominantly an Islamic region therefore the Islamic laws are dominant and are executed thoroughly (AbuKhalil , Para 1

The position of a woman in the Islamic role

It is widely acceptable that Islam view women as subordinate to men According to the law in use today in most of the Middle East countries women do not have equal rights with men but they have equal responsibilities in monetary terms . The westerns have a stereotype depiction that women in the Middle East are weak , passive and always veiled . In...