![]() ![]() ![]() Recent history as an important factor of social change Her debut graphic novel, Shubeik Lubeik, won the Grand Prize at the Cairo Comix Festival and is currently published in Arabic by Dar el-Mahrousa. She started making comics at 18 with her webcomic Qahera, about a female visibly Muslim superhero that addresses social issues. They have not come to a complete stop yet, as the struggle between the forces of light and darkness will continue until education for women, social empowerment and financial independence prevail. However, putting the brakes on anti-women’s rights movements was a stepping stone on the road to reverse their influence.ĭeena Mohamed is an Egyptian illustrator and designer. It is no surprise that these women are a threat to the voices trying to hinder women achievements. As a result, women have not only lost their role models, but also some of their rights, and their status has reached a point of stagnation.įortunately, multiple factors have helped in slowing down the growth and momentum of anti-women’s rights movements. Also, the contemporary women advocates have been vilified, while discrediting their causes and mental state. Plans had been brewing up in the society few decades before their rise to power aiming to strip the meager rights women had fought hard to achieve, not only glorified the roles of stay home wives and moms, but intentionally dropped out of history books the female role models and the stories of the pioneer women of the Egyptian suffragette who fought hard to advance the rights of women. The future of Egyptian women became even bleaker when the Muslim Brotherhood issued a statement in March 2013 denouncing the UN Women Declaration to End Violence against Women, on the basis that this declaration would destroy the family and lead to a complete disintegration of the society. Moreover, dropping the age of marriage to 16 was also on the agenda of the issues discussed in their parliament. The Islamist Parliament formed in January 2012 had already started taking action to repeal both the kuli’ law that allowed women to divorce and the law that criminalized female genital mutilation. The regression was caused by the increasing influence of Islamists in the society, which had reached its apex after the rise of Muslim Brotherhood to power. While we are elated over success women stories like Mansour’s, let’s not ignore the fact that over the last few decades there has been a noticeable regression in women status in Egypt. It is important to put all that in perspective to understand that in spite of all that, women have strived hard to excel and have succeeded and proved themselves as equals. They don’t consider them peers, but adversaries who are after their jobs. Men look down on them and doubt their capacities. They are fought, criticized, ridiculed and stigmatized. Women who are venturing into male dominated jobs are breaking social taboos. Stories similar to Mansour’s are great accomplishments for women on all fronts. The image of female engineers in overalls and safety hats working on oil rigs is a sight that people are slowly growing used to. The number of Egyptian women entering this field and other male dominate fields continues to grow. Women in Egypt have come a long way since then. The rejection letter clearly stated that the company would rather offer their jobs to male engineers. In 2007, she had received a scholarship by the Egyptian Ministry of Petroleum and PETRONAS to study at PETRONAS University of Technology UTP in from which she received her Bachelor's Degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering with honors. Exactly three decades earlier, I was denied a job as a site engineer in an oil company, because of my gender. She is among many young female engineers who are moving into this male dominated industry. Mansour, who works at the Egyptian Natural Gas Company Gasco, received the award at the Women in Energy Awards and Conference during Egypt Petroleum Show 2019. Women in Egypt have come a long way since then.Įarlier this year, Instrumentation and Control Engineer Sara Mansour won the “Nex-Gen Female of the Year,” an award that recognizes contributions of young female professionals with the potential to be future business and industry leaders. I was denied a job as a site engineer in an oil company, because of my gender. ![]()
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