Lebanese Women’s Rights

LEBANESE WOMENS RIGHTS FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM, ATTENTION, &038DIGNITY BY MAZEN AL KHANSA ENG201 INSTRUCTOR ISSAM HATOUM 7 January 2009 I picked this topic because it excited and stimulated me to opine that we are now accepting Lebanese Wo custody to be equally adversarial with men and to attain their rights for better living. The audiences sh birth are all Lebanese Women to be intercommunicate for that have given up their social, economical, and political being to degradation, failure, and fugitivity. OUTLINE thesis Lebanese women nowadays enjoy equal civil, social, and economical rights and attend institutions of higher(prenominal) education in large numbers, thanks to Arab societies/Islamic religion that provided for her. I. Rights for Lebanese Women A. Economic Rights and equal opportunity B. Political Rights and Civic Voice C. mixer and Cultural Rights II. Recommendations for preserving womens rights and continuity in Lebanese civilization III. early(a) Rights for Women Worldw ide(Particularly USA) The family in Lebanon, as elsewhere in the region, assigns different component parts to family members on the fundament of gender.The superior status of men in society and within the concentrate confines of the nuclear family transcends the barriers of sect or ethnicity. Lebanese family structure is patriarchal. The centrality of the start figure stems from the role of the family as an economic unit, in which the father is the situation 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 spirt. Although the inferior status of women is undoubtedly legitimized by various religious texts, the oppression of women in Arab society preceded the sexual climax of Islam.The roles of women have traditionally been restricted to those of mother and homemaker. However, since the 1970s Arab societies have allowed women to mutant a much active role socially and in the work force, basically as a result of the manpower shortage caused by heavy migration of men to Persian Gulf countries. In Lebanon the percentage of women in the labor force has increased, although the Islamic religious revival that swept Lebanon in the 1980s, reasserted traditional cultural values. As a consequence, veils and abas (cloaks) have become more common among Muslim women.Among Christians, the war enabled women to assume more independent roles because of the absence seizure 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 percent of the assimilator body at the American University of Beirut in 1983). Although women have their own organizations, most exist as subordinate branches of the political parties.