Arab women have rights and challenges, by Elham Ghanem Issa

Women are half human and their role is essential and central to building society in the year 2020 and we are still searching and working to empower women and achieve equality between men and women. To achieve equality between men and women, and this applies to all countries from east to west

Also, there is a big problem in the Arab region that limits and hinders the achievement of equality between men and women, despite the significant and remarkable progress that we have seen in building women's capacities in health and education, where women have enjoyed in the past decades in raising the level of academic achievement, where statistics indicate

At the level of the Arab region, the percentage of women studying in universities is higher than women by more than half, and this indicates a progress in capabilities, but in terms of opportunities, there are still many obstacles, as the percentage of participation of Arab women in the labor market appears to be lower compared to other regions of the world, where it reaches a rate of 20/100 only, while the participation of men reaches 63/100 in the labor market

There are great potentials for women, as women have entered into new industries and fields such as technology companies, where Arab women lead about a third of these companies, which are the new emerging companies that have managed to lead them, which is the highest percentage of many developed countries

In the year 2020, we still aspire to abolish or reduce the phenomenon of violence against women, as it is considered one of the most widespread forms of violence worldwide and also forms of violence.

Against women, as it is considered one of the most prevalent forms of violence prevalent in the world and also one of the forms of violence most prone to concealing a phenomenon that is not clearly visible and is the phenomenon of circumcision against females in which an improvement has been seen, but it has not reached the level of ambition or aspiration as well. In the Arab region, they are still subjected to violence during their lifetime, which is higher than the international rate of around 33/100

Also, underage marriage, one-fifth of females in the Arab region are married and underage

According to the new International Labor Organization report, females suffer more from unemployment than males

The issue of achieving equality between men and women is the responsibility of everyone, and it falls on everyone. There is a lot of progress in terms of legislation and laws towards women and their participation.

In political and economic life, economic empowerment is necessary for women and is the basis for providing a decent life for her and her gateway to achieve independence and decision-making ability.