Revolution signals new dawn for Egypt's women

[seabeyond]

"I got out of my car, opened the door of his car and slapped him in the face," she said. "I realized he wouldn't do anything about it, and it gave me the power to do what I wanted to do to every harasser in my past.

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Belal and many women like her, energized by the visible part they played in the protests that led to Mubarak's fall, feel they no longer have to suffer in silence the sexual harassment that has been part of their lives for so long.

A survey in 2008 by the Egyptian Center for Women's Rights claimed that 98% of foreign women and 83% of Egyptian women in the country had been sexually harassed.

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Abolkomsan said: "I am so happy and so proud about the role young women played in the revolution. Before the revolution they were depressed and disappointed and felt there was no value in their participation. Now we have hundreds of women coming to our organization wanting to get involved. They made a change by being in Tahrir Square and now they want to continue making a change

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/02/24/egypt.women.optimism.harassment/index.html?hpt=C2

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another revolution in the making for this country. you go, .... women.

[Tansy_Gold]

1. HALLELUJAH!!!!

[myrna minx]

2. I'm so proud of our Egyptian sisters.

:grouphug:

[leftstreet]

3. ouch - no women on the Constitutional Committee

The Egyptian Center for Women's Rights led a petition signed by more than 60 organizations complaining that Egypt's new Constitutional Committee has no female members.

The women interviewed are correct - they still have a long way to go

K&R
good article

[seabeyond]

7. this is what bothered me the other day, hearing the cheers for freedom of egyption people

freedom for half of the egyption people.

i felt better reading this. but yes, they have to fight this

[Matariki]

4. That's encouraging.

I've long argued that "street harassment" is a very insidious form of social control, aimed at keeping women in a second-class citizen role.

[Raksha]

5. K & R

[luv_mykatz]

6. K & R

Walk like the Egyptians do. :fistbump: :pals: :yourock:

It is a long time overdue for the Ism Brothers, and the Phobia Sisters to be starved out and blockaded from the minds and hearts of the people. Long overdue for their death and burial with dishonor.

Who are the Ism Brothers and the Phobia Sisters?

Glad you asked: Classism; Sexism; Racism; Ageism.

Homophobia, heterophobia, erosphobia.

Starve them out, people. Give them no room in your minds nor hearts.

[Kurovski]

8. K&R. (nt)