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hero and a national treasure in the eyes of Egyptians.

Women saw her as an inspiration in their struggle for equal rights

women followed her exam

Egyptian women made advances in equality throughout the period of the monarchy

Gamal Abdel Nasser, women continued to advance, achieving positions in universities, Parliament and the senior judiciary.

22 Arab countries for discrimination in law, sexual harassment and the paucity of female political representation

women

Egypt’s tradition of moderate Islam recognized women’s rights and encouraged women to study and work.

woman’s job is to please her husband and provide offspring.

promote female genital mutilation

cover her body completely and may not study,

women started to wear the

cannot even leave the house without her husband’s permission.

control women’s sexuality.

Wahhabism has influenced all Islamic societies and movements, including Al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood.

until 2005 that sexual harassment became an organized form of retribution against Egyptian women

hijab

83 percent of women interviewed had been subjected to sexual harassment at least once, and that 50 percent experienced it on a daily basis.

When ultraconservative doctrine dehumanizes women, reducing them to objects, it legitimizes acts of sexual aggression against them.

many Egyptian women still went without head scarves, wearing modern Western-style dress, yet incidents of sexual harassment were rare. Now, with the spread of the hijab, harassm

The security apparatus paid thugs, known as “beltagiya,” to gang up on a woman attending a demonstration, tear off her clothes and molest her.

Dec. 17, 201

Tahrir Square in Cairo, soldiers pulled a female protester’s clothes off and dragged her along the ground, stomping on her with their boots

victim of the attack became an icon for Egyptian women

mocked the victim, blaming her for not staying

in the home

During the revolution, millions of Egyptian women went out and bravely faced snipers’ bullets

rity.

President Mohamed Morsi’s later attempt to rewrite the Egyptian Constitution would also have removed the only female judge on the Supreme Constitutional Court.

They tried to overturn the law punishing doctors who carried out female genital mutilation, and refused to consider the marriage of minors as a form of human trafficking by claiming that Islam permitted a girl as young as 10 years old to be married.

The revolutionaries are fighting for equality

trying to strip women of their political and social rights and make them subject to men’s autho

10 female members of Parliament out of a total of 508

epresents a future that no one can prevent.