Despite being at the forefront of sweeping changes taking place in the country, the lives of the majority of Yemeni women are restricted to early marriage, motherhood and serving husbands, according to a new study by Women Without Borders (WWB), a Vienna based public relations and advocacy platform for women’s voices around the world. The survey reveals that women are largely restricted to the private sphere and discouraged from participating in public life.
The result of questionnares by WWB, distributed amongst 600 students at Yemen’s Sana’a University on the eve of the February this year stated that over half of the male respondents feel that allowing women to work undermines their religious practices. However, a majority of both men and women see changing gender roles as an opportunity to fare better in a fast globalising world
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Despite being at the forefront of sweeping changes taking place in the country, the lives of the majority of Yemeni women are restricted to early marriage, motherhood and serving husbands, according to a new study by Women Without Borders (WWB), a Vienna based public relations and advocacy platform for women’s voices around the world. The survey reveals that women are largely restricted to the private sphere and discouraged from participating in public life.
The result of questionnares by WWB, distributed amongst 600 students at Yemen’s Sana’a University on the eve of the February this year stated that over half of the male respondents feel that allowing women to work undermines their religious practices. However, a majority of both men and women see changing gender roles as an opportunity to fare better in a fast globalising world
For more information, please visit: IPS