Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain ... The Arab spring as the main pillar has been women. They have not been content to join the demonstrations, but have been an active part of them, organizing and leading the protests. Beyond the topic in the West have of Arab women, mothers and daughters have been together in the key events that have toppled regimes in Tunisia and Ben Ali Mubarak in Egypt.
In Yemen, a woman, Tawakul Karman, emerged as a spokesman for the disinherited. In Bahrain, the women wrapped in their black robes staged demonstrations and challenging the moral laws of the conservative emirate sleeping rough and praying outdoors. Fatima Mernissi crumbled in his book 'The Harem in the West' the myths of these veiled women here confine into submission and silence.
Beyond the image of a shy woman and subject Decorating Arab harems, women really have taken to the streets to demonstrate that they also require deep changes in their societies. Arabic symbols of feminism, whose birthplace is just as Nawal Saadawi Egypt have cast their grievances with representatives of a new generation that demands equality with their male counterparts.
In Egypt, only 25% of women work outside the home and 42% are illiterate. In a country where sexual harassment is a serious problem in the streets, women led the protests in an exemplary manner. They also expect that the wave of the changes remove the background. In Tunisia, women lawyers and human rights activists were at the forefront of the protests.
Blogs made by young people as "A Tunisian girl" (http://atunisiangirl. Blogspot. Com /) were the vanguard of change. As the scheme was built by Ben Ali was falling apart, gradually more women were veiled in the streets. Out to claim that they too were entitled to dress as they wished. Soumaya, a girl of 20 years, came to demonstrate to the Place de la Casbah to ask that women be allowed to wear headscarves to work as servants, teach in schools or become police officers.
"That would be true equality," said a ELMUNDO. is in late January. 
In Yemen, a woman, Tawakul Karman, emerged as a spokesman for the disinherited. In Bahrain, the women wrapped in their black robes staged demonstrations and challenging the moral laws of the conservative emirate sleeping rough and praying outdoors. Fatima Mernissi crumbled in his book 'The Harem in the West' the myths of these veiled women here confine into submission and silence.
Beyond the image of a shy woman and subject Decorating Arab harems, women really have taken to the streets to demonstrate that they also require deep changes in their societies. Arabic symbols of feminism, whose birthplace is just as Nawal Saadawi Egypt have cast their grievances with representatives of a new generation that demands equality with their male counterparts.
In Egypt, only 25% of women work outside the home and 42% are illiterate. In a country where sexual harassment is a serious problem in the streets, women led the protests in an exemplary manner. They also expect that the wave of the changes remove the background. In Tunisia, women lawyers and human rights activists were at the forefront of the protests.
Blogs made by young people as "A Tunisian girl" (http://atunisiangirl. Blogspot. Com /) were the vanguard of change. As the scheme was built by Ben Ali was falling apart, gradually more women were veiled in the streets. Out to claim that they too were entitled to dress as they wished. Soumaya, a girl of 20 years, came to demonstrate to the Place de la Casbah to ask that women be allowed to wear headscarves to work as servants, teach in schools or become police officers.
"That would be true equality," said a ELMUNDO. is in late January.
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