Are women in the Middle East oppressed? Are they really limited in their rights? Do they even have rights? Well, it's questions like these that I love to answer only because I love to spread the positive image of the women in the Middle East. First off, let's discuss the things that they are limited in. I really can't think of anything except maybe in Saudi Arabia where they are not allowed to drive. Ok, I agree that is not good. Nonetheless people tend to look to very trivial aspects and make assumptions that this certain feature is proportional to the equal different topic of something else.
I want to make it clear that women in the Middle East are appreciated very much. It wouldn't be right for me to say that they run the nations. Nonetheless they are more dignified than what they may be presented as. Just because they have to wear a scarf and whatnot around their head doesn't entail that they are oppressed. It just happens that they are Muslim and all they are doing is following their religion. In fact, if you look around the world and find Muslim women all around the world you will find that they too wear the scarf anywhere they go as well. So how come that when they wear in the Middle East they are considered oppressed and if they are in Europe or something they are only portraying the "expanded rights" offered to people there.
Women in the Middle East have had special roles. For the longest time they have been able to vote and they have been considered equal in the work force. And if it happens that a woman chooses not to work then the closest male to her in the family (whether it is a sibling or her father or whatever) is supposed to take care of her. This is to ensure her stability and freedom without forcing her to work.
Women when they get married are not responsible to take charge of the financial aspect of their life and their husband's life after marriage. It is the husbands duty. If they choose to work then it is out of her own decision. Nonetheless people might say that putting the duty on the man only justifies that the male is destined to be the one making most of the decisions and so on. This is incorrect only because the male is supposed to ensure the women's freedom and they (the men) are supposed to go out of their way to make a comfortable life for the women. Women in the Middle East are not oppressed.
I want to make it clear that women in the Middle East are appreciated very much. It wouldn't be right for me to say that they run the nations. Nonetheless they are more dignified than what they may be presented as. Just because they have to wear a scarf and whatnot around their head doesn't entail that they are oppressed. It just happens that they are Muslim and all they are doing is following their religion. In fact, if you look around the world and find Muslim women all around the world you will find that they too wear the scarf anywhere they go as well. So how come that when they wear in the Middle East they are considered oppressed and if they are in Europe or something they are only portraying the "expanded rights" offered to people there.
Women in the Middle East have had special roles. For the longest time they have been able to vote and they have been considered equal in the work force. And if it happens that a woman chooses not to work then the closest male to her in the family (whether it is a sibling or her father or whatever) is supposed to take care of her. This is to ensure her stability and freedom without forcing her to work.
Women when they get married are not responsible to take charge of the financial aspect of their life and their husband's life after marriage. It is the husbands duty. If they choose to work then it is out of her own decision. Nonetheless people might say that putting the duty on the man only justifies that the male is destined to be the one making most of the decisions and so on. This is incorrect only because the male is supposed to ensure the women's freedom and they (the men) are supposed to go out of their way to make a comfortable life for the women. Women in the Middle East are not oppressed.
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