:: Marwa Rakha :: Egyptian Relationships & Dating Writer - Interviews - Bikya Masr: Women judges in Egypt see back and forth game

:: Marwa Rakha :: Egyptian Relationships & Dating Writer - Interviews - Bikya Masr: Women judges in Egypt see back and forth game

Marwa Rakha, a relationships writer, author, and human rights advocate, said “Egypt’s female population is literally half of this society and we are still wondering if they [women] are mentally capable of being rational — what a shame”


Rakha added “If a person – male or female, heterosexual or homosexual, HIV infected or not, dark-skinned or fair-skinned – has passed their exams and assessments for any position in the state then they are fully entitled to assume that position with pride.”


She believes that State Council bars women from the benches because of fear.


“The same people who still discuss – today – if a woman belongs at home or in the office, the same people who were enraged by the law penalizing FGM,” said Rakha, “the same people who think of women as lesser beings, the same people who want to cover her up, lock her up, or shut her up – those people are hurdles in the path of women’s rights. They certainly do not want to see her behind the bench.”

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