The Empowerment: Women´s Right in The Arab League

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To become an Independent person one needs a job. To have a job one needs an education. To get an education one needs to go to school. For many countries, it is easy for anyone to follow the list of steps one needs to do to become independent. For males, in almost any country, it is a guaranteed thing that they will become independent if they just follow the steps. For girls, it is not the same situation. Many females around the world are independent but, it is still a male dominated field when it comes to most jobs.
In some counties discrimination is worse than others, in some countries females can’t even think about getting outside of the house in fear of the males who have power over them. Many of those countries, where women still have no power, are in the Middle East and most of them are part of the Arab League. The Arab League, or League of Arab states, is composed of of 22 Arab states. Morocco, Libya, Oman, Qatar, Egypt, and Jordan are a few states that are known as part of the Arab League. (The Editors, 2013)
Recently, many laws have slowly been in the process of began changing for the females in these countries. Topics related to females and female rights have been in the talk for years. The Arabic women have been pushing for their rights and are on a road to overcome the obstacle of discrimination. The females are out to change what most people in the area call the cultural normal. The changes may not happen overnight or even in a week, and many changes have taken years but, equality is coming. Women are beginning to slowly gain the independence they have never had.
In the past women have been confined to the home to cook, to clean, and to care for children while the men work outside of the home. Discrimination, or s...

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.... Countries such as Iraq and Qatar are amending previous laws so females can have the option to pass citizenship to spouses and children. (Fact sheet, N.d.) Jordan now has laws stating if a woman marries a foreign man she may pass the citizenship onto her kids.
Equality among males and females can only exist if countries can slowly progress to that stage. Amending previous laws and creating new laws can only help out females for the better, although it can not change anyone’s mind set. It allows females to get out and become independent. As Al-Harting said “we are moving in the right direction but, we can’t go too fast, change is not easy to take.” (Wilhelm, 2009). Females will continue for many years to fight for their rights and equality hoping that one day all across the world men and women will one day be treated the same in all aspects of the outside world.

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