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The Egyptian girls are beautiful,
full of joy, kind and raised to become good wives and mothers.
They go to schools, play on the streets, goes to the bazaars and
markets with their mothers, helping them at their work. The
Egyptian women started their fight for equal rights and position
with the Egyptian men about 30 years ago and the fight still
continues, the Egypt being more a patriarchal country. In
antiquity, the social status of women in Egypt was established
by their husbands` or fathers` social position, but they used to
have the same rights with the men. The Egyptian girls and women
are treated with very much respect legally and socially, too.
They can buy a property and also govern it, they can adopt
children, be their own representatives in court, etc. This
respect was gained by the woman since the ancient times and kept
by their work and fight. Today numerous Egyptian women have very
good jobs such as editors at important newspapers, deans in
universities, banks CEOs, ministers in the government, lowers
and judges, stockbrokers, doctors. Also the women in Egypt work
in food factories, textiles factories, pharmaceutical factories,
in hotels, as servants, janitors, etc. A lot of Egyptian girl
prefer to go to the universities and married later, in order to
have high studies and a good job before founding a family. The
girl and women in Egypt wear traditional Muslim clothes that are
large and long, covering the whole body. Their heads are also
covered with scarves. They color they nails with henna and their
lips too. In Egypt are many organizations for women such as: the
Center for Egyptian Civilization Studies, Cairo Family Planning
Association, and Alliance for Arab Women, Egyptian Women
Association, Egyptian Organization for Human Rights, the General
Department of Women Affairs. |
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