women continue to suffer from unequal treatment and condescending attitudes women politicians do not yet enjoy the decisionmaking power of their male counterparts in iraq for example no women took part in negotiations to reach a compromise government after the parliamentary elections of and the ministry of women s affairs is only a state s cabinet with no allocated budget the judgement was followed on june that year by three similar rulings for the benefit of other students the judgements prevented the university from refusing to accept women students to certain departments based solely on the universitys admission policy