Gender Equality and MENA Women's Empowerment in the Aftermath of the 2011 Uprisings

Pamela Ann Abbott

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2902890

Gender Equality and MENA Women's Empowerment in the Aftermath of the 2011 Uprisings

Pamela Ann Abbott

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This paper examines gender equality and women's empowerment in the MENA following the 2011 Arab Uprisings. The paper reports findings from the ArabTrans survey, a comparative public opinion survey carried out in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia in 2014. Arounf 1,500 respondents were interviewed in each country on a range of questions including a module on gender attitudes. This is supplemented by data from the Arab Barometer II and II and the World Values Survey Round 6. It examines attitude to gender equality in education, in employment, in politics and in the family.

All six countries have conservative gender attitudes and strong support for personal status law. A majority of respondents support but they are less supportive of women being political leaders and strongly support at least some elements of personal status law. education for girls and the rights of married women to work outside the home However, attitudes in Libya and Egypt are significantly more conservative than those in Jordan and Iraq, Morocco and Tunisia have the least conservative values. Attitudes had become less conservative in Iraq and Morocco in the 10 years prior to the survey while those in Tunisia had become more conservative since the Uprisings in 2010. There were no age differences in attitudes to gender equality but men are significantly more conservative than women. there is little relationship between support for democracy and support for gender equality.

Original language	English
Publisher	SSRN
Number of pages	54
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2902890
Publication status	Published - 2017

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Name	Arab Transformations working paper series
No.	10

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The project received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme under grant agreement no #320214.

Acknowledgements
The Arab Transformations Project is coordinated by the University of Aberdeen (UK) and includes further 11 partners: Dublin City University (DCU), Dublin, Ireland; Análisis Sociológicos Económicos y Políticos (ASEP), Madrid, Spain; Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale (ISPI), Milan, Italy; Universität Graz (UNI GRAZ), Graz, Austria; Societatea Pentru Methodologia Sondajelor Concluzia-Prim (Concluzia), Chisinau, Moldova; Centre de Recherche en Économie Appliquée pour le Développement (CREAD), Algiers, Algeria; Egyptian Centre for Public Opinion Research (BASEERA); Cairo, Egypt; Independent Institute for Administration and Civil Society Studies (IIACSS), Amman, Jordan; University of Jordan (JU), Amman, Jordan; MEDA Solutions (MEDAS), Casablanca, Morocco; Association Forum Des Sciences Sociales Appliquées (ASSF); Tunis, Tunisia. The author would also like to acknowledge the World Values Survey, Arab Barometer and Gallup Analytics on whose survey data they draw. We are also grateful to Viola Sanelli and Ilia Xypolia, at the University of Aberdeen, for material they supplied on the history and politics of the region.

The authors alone remain responsible for the content of this report. It cannot be taken to necessarily represent the views of the EU, the Court of the University of Aberdeen or any of the project partners

UN SDGs

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SDG 5 Gender Equality

Keywords

gender
Arab Uprisings
Shari'a
Egypt
Iraq
Jordan
Libya
Morocco
Tunisia

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