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Women in Lebanon
The family in Lebanon, as elsewhere in the Middle East region, assigns different roles to family members on the basis of gender. The superior status of men in society and within the narrow confines of the nuclear family transcends the barriers of sect or ethnicity.[1] However, the degree of discrimination does vary throughout sects.[2] Lebanese family structure is patriarchal.[3] The centrality of the father 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 even in rural regions of Lebanon where women participate in peasant work. The roles of women have 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. In Lebanon the percentage of women in the labor force has increased.
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Lebanese women do not enjoy equal civil rights (WP) in some matters. Until recently, the ability to pass on their nationality to their children had not even been discussed as an issue.[4]
Notwithstanding the persistence of traditional attitudes regarding the role of women, they attend institutions of higher education in large numbers (for example, women constituted 41 percent of the student body at the Wikipedia:American University of Beirut in 1983). Although women in Lebanon have their own organizations, most exist as subordinate branches of the political parties.[3]
Two factors influencing the acceptance of a more active role for women are the loss to the workforce of migration of men to Persian Gulf countries, and the death and absence of men involved in wars.
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Human Rights Watch report Story on violence against women Amnesty International report and more and another Women's Rights Monitor UPI story Arab News story Middle East Report article Social Politics journal article
- Jump up ↑ OECD article " Lebanon’s third periodic report to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) states that “whichever denomination she belongs to, a Lebanese woman is a victim of gender discrimination in her contact with the personal status lawsâ€.
- Jump up ↑ OECD
- ↑ Jump up to: 3.0 3.1 Human Rights Watch article
- Jump up ↑ Hariri vows support for women's rights 21st March, 2012, Lebanon Daily Star
