Third World Paper
Women in the Middle East
Content
1.Introduction
2.Status of girl in Middle East world
3.Education
4.Circumcision and honor killing
5.Marriage
6.Veiling
7.conclucion
Women in the Middle East
There are over half a billion women in the Muslim World in Middle East. They are in
Much of the world lack support of the fundamental functions of a human life. Their social
Status is low and they receive lack respect by the men. Women in the Middle East also
are less nourished than men, less healthy, less opportunity but more vulnerable to
physical violence and sexual abuse. Women in Middle East are discriminated by men,
religion or even law. They are much less likely than men to be literate or to have a
professional or technical education. The only function of women in Middle East is
producing children. But the situation has some improvement in nowadays.
Some of the
women in the Middle- East are standing up and try to fright for their rights. But actually,
most of the women in the Middle-East, especially those who live in conservative
countries, are still accept their status and the role that they play in the society. (Mahnaz
Afkhami, 1996)
Women need to play a 'proper role' in the society especially in the conservative society
or countries. For example like in Saudi Arabia. The 'proper role' means to be a good
children, good wife and good women. In the Middle East societies, most of the people are
welcome to have a boy rather than girl. There are several reasons make people prefer to
have a boy. First of all, most of the middle-East countries still are the agriculture base
community. Therefore, have a boy is more prefer than have a girl. It is because sons...
Good paper!
a few grammatical errors but over all it's a good paper.
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