Happy Women's Day! Yes, it is today. March, 8th. Have you guys congratualted any female you know? Have you girls remembered this date, or even know about it? I bet not. I don't think the Egyptian women nowadays are too marginalized to this extent. Why don't they seize this opportunity to take pride in their achievements and the bravey by which they are facing their challenges? Why don't we celebrate our women and make them feel how appreciated they are by members of their family, community, soceity and country?
This day also marks the pain I feel whenever I remember the fierce campaign that female judges are facing in Egypt, and how they are denied their rights by fellow male judges. Instead of pushing this experiment forward, the guradians of justice could not forget that they are males. They could not tolerate the idea that their chairs will soon be filled with their female colleagues, who were long deprived of their right in acquiring this position, although they have been serving justice as long and as sincerely as they have. I can't believe that those judges whom we all stood behind, men and women, in front of the injustice of authorities, are now standing against the rights of their own colleagues, only for being women. What a shame!
This world would not have been able to accomplish anything without its women. Let's at least not prevent them from having their basic rights as humans.
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Although I think both men and women are subject to oppression and subjugation by political, economic and almost all societal systems in the world, I admit that women suffer much more in our countries. I'd like 2 salute every great mother, wife, sister, or daughter in Egypt, the arab world, and the whole world. And I'd like aslo to thank the objective respectable Om Luji for her fine sense of justness, whether for women or men.
Finally, 3ashan khater Om Luji's invitation to celebrate women 2day, I decided 2 invite my wife for dinner this night :) Zaghraty ya Madame and pray for Om Luji :)
Very civilized attitude ya Salama. Hope you had a splendid dinner. I'm so happy I played a role in that.
This is a very interesting post. I had no idea female judges in Egypt had so much trouble. In Romania, they are quite a few. Not as many as men, but soon to be, as the law schools are dominated by women. Actually, with only a few exceptions, such as Polytechnics, most universities have more female students.
Yeah, Alina. Unfortunately, female judges are denied their basic professional rights, just because they are women. It is a very sad situation that when finally the government decides to give them their rights, for the first time in Egyptian history, we see their male colleagues stand against it.
There are many female professors and students at law schools in Egypt too. But they knew that there is a limit for getting promoted in their career. It is a painful facet of gender discrimination here.
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