Iraqi women: 'Things were so much better before'

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The tragic decline in Iraqi women's status is the result of 30 years of war and occupation.

The nation produced the first female judge, ambassador, and government minister in the Arab world. Iraqi women benefited from state subsidised childcare and education; they once formed about half the public sector workforce and 50 percent of the country's doctors.

Sadly, as the 12th anniversary of a disastrous invasion and occupation looms, there is another rather grim "first" to ponder.

Iraqi women are arguably the first to see their status go from one of the highest in the region to one of the lowest, in less than two decades.
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While most news reports on the new mayor of Baghdad were quick to point out last year's UN report that documented the illiteracy rate of a quarter of Iraqi women over age 12, and the fact that only 14 percent of women are part of the workforce, they lacked any real context.

The tragic decline in women's status did not happen in a vacuum. It was the result of 30 years of war and occupation.
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Not only did sanctions wipe out the middle class and cripple what had been one of the region's best public health and education systems, they also forced Iraq's women into impossible situations.

With a 3,000 percent devaluation of the dinar, mothers, many of whom like today were war widow heads of households, were forced to sell off their living room furniture to pay for basics like food and medicine. Girls were pulled out of school for early marriages or to work to help support their families. And many women, even those with PhDs, were forced into prostitution.
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http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2015/03/iraqi-women-150308055143624.html


Give ppl freedom brehs :mjcry:
 
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Melbournelad said:
Neocons :scust: repulsive and vile people
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For some reason i realise melbournites tend to be leftist when it comes to politics. There isnt much of a hyper conservative base in Victoria. While neocons are a respected members of every other anglo nation. Even our centre politics would be considered by most Americans as liberal. Im suprised we havent had a successful socialist party in parliament:leon:
 
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Girls were pulled out of school for early marriages or to work to help support their families. And many women, even those with PhDs, were forced into prostitution
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Damn :wow:
 
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thekingsmen said:
Republicans are vile people and so are the Demos who helped vote for sanctions and war against the Iraqi people. Do you get it now.
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:leostare:I listed an ideology , not a party. It would have applied to all of the Republicans and some of the right wing Democrats. Do you get it now?
 
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