Talk:Women in Egypt

Numerous mistakes in the article
It is false to say that a man could easily say to his wife "I divorce thee" three times in front of witnesses and simply end the marraige. My brother divorced his wife after a series of complex marital problems. He filed his divorce request in a court, and afterwards was requested to pay above 10 percent of his salary (he is a sales manager for Alcatel in Riyadh), for a period of two or three years (the exact details are not known to me).

If he fails to pay his monthly alimony he will be fined. If he refuses to pay at all, he will be sentenced to jail (once again I don't know how long the sentence is).

Just for the record, in Islam, women are also required to tell their husbands "I divorce thee" three times in front of a witness to anounce their intention of divorce.

As for the prospect of a man marrying more than one woman. A woman can request for a pre-marital agreement that forbids on her husband that he marry another woman. At any rate, men marrying more than one woman are rare in Egypt. If a woman is married to a husband with multiple wives, and she feels she is not equally treated, she can seek legal compensation in court.

Since the status of Women in Egypt is greatly attached to religion, I can contribute to the article from Islamic Law (sharia). Marital law is also mainly based on Islamic Law. However, I am preoccupied with another project currently, so I will not be able to make significant contributions over the next period. Sherif9282 (talk) 15:02, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Veil or Not
It would interesting to know what percentage of Egyptian women are veiled or not. The Turkish article shows a % breakdown. --Mezaco (talk) 17:53, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Coptic women
There should probably be a special section in the article about Coptic women. Egyptian Christian women are known to be quite repressed when compared to women living in majority-Christian countries, and even when compared to Christian women living in other Mideast countries such as Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. For this reason, it probably should be mentioned somewhere in th entry. ADM (talk) 21:36, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

Major Omissions and Errors
The article fails to mention that Cleopatra was Queen of Egypt in the mid-40s BC, well before the truncated reference to her position with Marc Antony in 31 BC. Furthermore, the article fails to discuss the role of women during the period of the Coptic Christian majority prior to the Islamic invasions of the 7th century and totally ignores the effect of Islam on Egyptian women for the next 1500 years. As to the 20th Century, the article does not even mention the major events in the Revolution of 1919, during which, when the leading men in the uprising against the British were killed or imprisoned their wives and daughters took to the streets in political protest, marking the first time in modern history that women played an important political role in Egypt. Finally, it ignores the conservative influences on women's activities from the Islamic Brotherhood and the writings of Sayyid Qutb in the 1950s and 1960s. — Preceding unsigned comment added by FAMiniter (talk • contribs) 03:13, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Article jumps over islamic period
The article describes women in ancient Egypt - and then jumps forward to the late 20th-century. It should at least make some small mention of when the position changed from that of the ancient woman's position to that of the 20th-century, and how the introduction of Islam in the middle ages changed things.--Aciram (talk) 13:01, 26 September 2015 (UTC)

Genital multilation numbers are outdated
The numbers for female genital mutilation are outdated according to the original source (UNICEF), and also, the original numbers do not appear to be sourced.

Here's the more recent numbers for Egypt, in case anyone wants to correct the article:

http://data.unicef.org/corecode/uploads/document6/uploaded_country_profiles/corecode/222/Countries/FGMC_EGY.pdf — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikipedian112151 (talk • contribs) 09:38, 11 August 2016 (UTC)

Confusing Language
"Women were stated lower than men when it came to a higher leader in the Egyptian hierarchy counting his peasants. "

I read this three times and it still makes no sense. Could someone clean this up?

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A very biased article about women in Egypt
Compared to the same wikipedia article in Arabic, this article is on purpose trying to convince the reader that all women in modern Egypt are oppressed just because they’re women. The mainstream western media narrative about any middle eastern country at its finest. You ignored hundreds of thousands of Egyptian well educated and successful women in diverse areas of life like sciences, business and sports. You ignored hundreds of thousands of Egyptian business women and leaders in multinational companies, and I was one of them. You ignored hundreds of thousands of Egyptian women working as University Professors in Egypt and across the western world and their active roles in education and sciences development. You ignored a lot, it’s unprofessional, uninclusive biased article. Do your homework, search and write fairly, rather than following an obvious agenda! Some women in Egypt are oppressed, not only because of misogyny but because Egyptian women and men are under oppressive regime supported by the so called “Western Leaders” who rant about democracy but only for themselves! 23.17.178.49 (talk) 11:21, 21 November 2023 (UTC)