Carmen Geha
Dr. Carmen Geha is a public policy scholar and feminist governance advisor specializing in political reform, civic engagement, and inclusive leadership in the Arab region. She is the founder of Sultara Consulting, based in Barcelona, and formerly served as Associate Professor of Public Administration at the American University of Beirut. She holds a PhD from the University of Sussex and advises global institutions on gender and institutional transformation.
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More of this nonsense. Women have no more rights in this corrupt to the core parliament than any other “male” newcomer or counterpart does.
And other countries do not have more women in parliaments because of less or no patriarchy, they have more women in parliaments because they are far less corrupt as a working system. And even then women don’t make up half the seats for very legit valid reasons.
You speak of “women’s rights” in a country where basic rights for any living mammal does not exist.
And what does sectarianism have to do with women not getting elected? Under sectarianism all suffer the consequences not just women!
But I agree that women do suffer in marital rights and this has more to do with religious issues deeply rooted in the system than anything else, and particularly one religion more so than the other. Good luck changing that hard coded structure in a country where law and religion are one and the same.
But women do Earn Equally as much as men do in the country IF they are equally hard working, can equally hard negotiate and are equally competent just as IF men are!
Countless women run large businesses and are very successful and if those women can do it so can others nothing in the law states otherwise, so please don’t mix things up. Life is hard for every hard working citizen regardless of gender no more no less, so be fair with your arguments and do less bias reporting based on far left ideologies. After all. are you earning less than an equally competent male writer at Executive while at the same time working as a professor of public administration at AUB!? Did the law prevent your position from happening?
Lebanese women are strong and independent enough to handle themselves at work and in politics if they choose to, anything else is an insult to every woman in this country minus the marital issues I mentioned above.
If you want to really deal with women’s rights? Why not start with certain religious affiliated subject matters that saw the death of 7 women last year. But I understand that’s a red line, a no go zone.
So then perhaps it’s best to keep one’s pen silent than be in the realm of hypocrisy.
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