Lebanese Women’s Rights

LEBANESE WOMENS RIGHTS FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM, ATTENTION, &DIGNITY BY MAZEN AL KHANSA ENG201 INSTRUCTOR ISSAM HATOUM 7 January 2009 I picked this topic because it excited and affected me to believe that we are now accepting Lebanese Women to be equally adversarial with men and to attain their rights for better living. The audiences shown are all Lebanese Women to be spoken for that arouse given up their social, economical, and political being to degradation, failure, and fugitivity. chalk outThesis Lebanese women nowadays enjoy equal civil, social, and economical rights and attend to institutions of high education in large numbers, thanks to Arab societies/Islamic worship that provided for her. I. Rights for Lebanese Women A. Economic Rights and equal opportunity B. Political Rights and Civic vocalism C. Social and Cultural Rights II. Recommendations for preserving womens rights and continuity in Lebanese subtlety III. Other Rights for Women Worldwide(Particularly USA) The fam ily in Lebanon, as elsewhere in the region, assigns different roles to family members on the basis of gender.The superior stead of men in parliamentary law and indoors the narrow confines of the nuclear family transcends the barriers of sect or ethnicity. Lebanese family building is patriarchal. The centrality of the go figure stems from the role of the family as an economic unit, in which the father is the property owner and producer on whom the rest of the family depend. This notion prevails correct in rural regions of Lebanon where women participate in peasant work. Although the inferior status of women is undoubtedly legitimized by various religious texts, the oppression of women in Arab society preceded the advent of Islam.The roles of women amaze traditionally been restricted to those of mother and homemaker. However, since the 1970s Arab societies have allowed women to play a more active role socially and in the work force, basically as a result of the manpower dearth caused by heavy migration of men to Persian Gulf countries. In Lebanon the serving of women in the labor force has increased, although the Islamic religious revival that brush Lebanon in the 1980s, reasserted traditional cultural values. As a consequence, veils and abas (cloaks) have live more common among Muslim women.Among Christians, the war enabled women to assume more separate roles because of the absence of male family members involved in the fighting. Notwithstanding the persistence of traditional attitudes regarding the role of women, Lebanese women enjoy equal civil rights and attend institutions of higher education in large numbers (for example, women constituted 41 percentage of the student body at the American University of Beirut in 1983). Although women have their own organizations, most exist as subordinate branches of the political parties.