Lebanese Women’s Rights

LEBANESE WOMENS RIGHTS contend FOR FREEDOM, ATTENTION, &DIGNITY BY MAZEN AL KHANSA ENG201 teacher ISSAM HATOUM 7 January 2009 I picked this topic because it enkindle and stimulated me to believe that we argon instanter accepting Lebanese Women to be equally adversarial with men and to attain their rights for better living. The audiences shown are all Lebanese Women to be talk for that arrive given up their social, scotch, and political being to degradation, failure, and fugitivity. OUTLINEThesis Lebanese women nowadays enjoy equal elegant, social, and economical rights and attend institutions of higher education in large numbers, thanks to Arab societies/Islamic faith that provided for her. I. Rights for Lebanese Women A. Economic Rights and equal hazard B. Political Rights and Civic Voice C. societal and Cultural Rights II. Recommendations for preserving womens rights and continuity in Lebanese civilization III. Other Rights for Women Worldwide(Particularly USA) The famil y in Lebanon, as elsewhere in the region, assigns dissimilar components to family members on the basis of gender.The superior consideration of men in society and indoors the narrow confines of the nuclear family transcends the barriers of cabal or ethnicity. Lebanese family structure is patriarchal. The centrality of the founding father figure stems from the role of the family as an economic unit, in which the father is the property owner and producer on whom the rest of the family depend. This fantasy prevails even in rural regions of Lebanon where women enrol in peasant work. Although the inferior post of women is undoubtedly legitimized by various unearthly texts, the oppression of women in Arab society preceded the orgasm of Islam.The roles of women sacrifice tralatitiously been restricted to those of arrive and homemaker. However, since the 1970s Arab societies have allowed women to play a more active role socially and in the work force, basically as a result of the manpower paucity 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 sacred 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 strong-minded roles because of the absence 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 student body at the American University of Beirut in 1983). Although women have their own organizations, most exist as subordinate branches of the political parties.