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| Algeria's quiet revolution: Gains by women | |
| 2007-05-27 | |
Women make up 70 percent of Algeria's lawyers and 60 percent of its judges. Women dominate medicine. Increasingly, women contribute more to household income than men. Sixty percent of university students are women, university researchers say. In a region where women have a decidedly low public profile, Algerian women are visible everywhere. They are starting to drive buses and taxicabs. They pump gas and wait on tables. Although men still hold all of the formal levers of power and women still make up only 20 percent of the work force, that is more than twice their share a generation ago, and they seem to be taking over the machinery of state as well. | |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #1 Yikes! No wonder those Salafist barbarians are so desperately lopping off heads and setting off bombs. NOW and other American feminist organizations will undoubtedly launch a massive campaign of solidarity with their besieged Algerian sisters any day now. Feminist minded college students and their professional handlers will no doubt march by the million to condemn the Salafist/AQ atrocities. Human rights organizations will mobilize all their resources against the terrorists and leading Hollywood liberals will certainly organize glittering fund-raisers for the anti-fanatic forces. Just kidding. |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2007-05-27 06:42 |