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Egypt: Women
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While Egypt's criminal and penal codes do not explicitly discriminate against women, women may face unequal treatment from the police, society, and their families when accused of crimes of adultery or culturally inappropriate behavior. Promiscuity is considered unacceptable behavior for both genders within Egyptian culture. However, while men or boys may be reprimanded, women or girls may be severely punished, or in extreme cases, killed for "dishonorable" acts. While "honor crimes," or the killing of women in the name of family "honor," are not prevalent in Egypt and are not specifically addressed within the law, these crimes do occur. Article 17 of the Penal Law gives the judge the right to mitigate a penalty of death to a life-sentence. Unfortunately, this article is sometimes unequally applied in favor of men and is used to discriminate against women, especially in cases involving "honor crimes."
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Egypt signed the CEDAW in 1980 and ratified it in 1981. One of the reservations submitted by Egypt relates to Article 9(2) on gender equality in nationality rights. "It is clear that the child’s acquisition of his father’s nationality is the procedure most suitable for the child and that this does not infringe upon the principle of equality between men and women, since it is customary for a woman to agree, upon marrying an alien, that her children shall be of the father’s nationality." The next reservation is to Article 16 relating to gender equality in family relations. The reservation relates to the status of the shari’a; Article 16 is accepted insofar as it does not prejudice shar’i provisions whereby women are granted rights "equivalent" to men’s rights in order to "ensure a just balance between them." The reservation is made "out of respect for the sacrosanct nature of the firm religious beliefs which govern marital relations in Egypt and which may not be called in question and in view of the fact that one of the most important bases of these relations is an equivalency of rights and duties so as to ensure complementarity which guarantees true equality between the spouses." The reservation to Article 2 states that, although "Egypt is willing to comply with the content of this article," it is with the proviso that "such compliance does not run counter to the Islamic shari’a".
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The Queens of Egypt - The many queens of Egypt have long been regarded as the most beautiful, seductive women ever to grace a throne. While they obviously knew how to make the most of their appearances, there was ... much more to the personalities and lives of these royal ladies than mere looks alone.
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During the period 1995 to 2000, 35 percent of women in the workforce were employed in agriculture, 9 percent in industry, and 56 percent in services. Working women in Egypt come from different economic and social backgrounds. Women in the higher economic classes are active as modern professionals, including doctors, lawyers, engineers, architects, scientists, and university teachers. Women open businesses, invest money, manage shops, work in retail, and own housing. A few women manage successful international consultancies, clothing manufacturing, and textile workshops. Particularly active in the informal market, many women are penny-capitalists investing small outlays of funds. Most women in this class have their own private transportation, such as a personal car.
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