FSRN Lebanese Feminists Seek New Strategies to Advance Gender Equality
Channel: Reddebrek
Date: 2012-03-13

Today, we continue our series commemorating International Women's Day and Women's History Month, by hearing about the women's movement in rural Morocco and from women artists in New Orleans.  But first, we go to Lebanon. The country has one of the most advanced education systems in the Middle East, and women received the right to vote six decades ago.  Yet there are no women in the cabinet and only four women MPs among a parliament of 128. Frustrated by the low representation of women in mainstream politics some activists are pushing for a new strategy. FSRN'S Zak Brophy reports.

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