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Egyptian gender discrimination
Traditional gender roles in Egypt are prevalent and clearly defined. These roles are largely associated with traditional Islamic family structures, wherein women's roles are closely tied to the domestic sphere and men's roles tied to the public sphere -
marriage and legal status
Official age of consent for marriage is 13 for girls and 24 for boys, though child marriages of females still continues in certain areas without legal intervention. -
eductaional rights
Egypt has very low literacy rate. girls were not allowed to study or to get educated so if they get educated they woukd be better than boys -
politics participation
As a group, women have been proportionally underrepresented in parliament and other civic offices. During the final years of Hosni Mubarak's leadership, women held 12 percent of parliamentary seats. While such a figure may be proportionally low, it is the highest level of female inclusion ever reached in Egyp -
Gender inequality solved
For more than 50years, UNFPA has advocated for women and girls, promoting legal and policy reforms and gender-sensitive data collection, and supporting initiatives that improve women's health and expand their choices in life. - See more at: http://www.unfpa.org/gender-equality#sthash.JH0Ndvea.dpuf
