Gender relations and women's rights are contested areas in contemporary
societies representing nodal points in the discourses on modernity and
tradition. Both internationally and nationally, the question of relations
between men and women is closely linked to development, becoming more and more
one of its key indicators. Therefore, at the state level and in most other
areas of the public sphere, "gender policy" is a major problem for
the XXI century is a complex arena of controversy.
Today I wanted to talk about a person who played a decisive role in
changing the mentality of women in Yemen.
Yemen is an Asian Muslim country where women's rights are a
controversial issue. Over time, the government of Yemen had numerous attempts
to adopt policies in favor of women but most often not enforced but the process
was slow and cumbersome due to deeply rooted traditions, often women are those
who refuse to stand up and revolt against unorthodox treatment they are
subjected to, they prefer to indulge situation.
Main problems facing Yemeni women are child marriage, domestic violence,
female genital mutilation, rape, sexual exploitation, exclusion from the public
sphere, school drop. Social and economic indicators for developing
countries, as in the case of Yemen, show consistently that those who bear the
burden of hardship in poor communities are women and, most often, efforts to
modernize discriminatory laws and their implementation bet on certain states,
are aggravated by cultural barriers very well established.
Tawakkul Karman, dubbed “The Iron Woman” and “Mother of the
Revolution”, the first Yemeni woman and the second Arab women who won the Nobel
Peace Prize. She has played a leading role in the opposition protests in
Yemen in 2011 that started in January after revolts in Tunisia and Egypt
sparked the Arab Spring. She lead many of the protests in Yemen for democracy
and human rights, especially among women. Is a journalist, a senior member of Al-Islah political party, human rights
activist and leading the group "Women Journalists without Chains" who
co-founded in 2005. Her act led to the mobilization of hundreds of women
protested on Yemen capital's main market claiming their rights and demanding the
establishment of a democratic regime. However there are many things to
accomplish in terms of women's rights in Yemen.
My question is: What do you think about women in Yemen, they engage in
battle for emancipation? Or do you think they are indulging situation?
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ym.html
http://www.hrw.org/news/2011/05/09/yemen-s-women-out-shadows
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/yemen/news/article.cfm?l_id=493&objectid=10701520
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