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The Queen of Jordan, Rania, is supporting education for all children in Jordan with her foundation 'The Queen Rania Foundation for Education and Development' which was established in 2013. The foundation aids in research and development in Jordanian education and has recently found that in Jordan it is the girls that hold the largest percentage in education compared to boys which created a reverse gender gap. In 2009, Jordan as the sole country in the region adopted migrant domestic workers under their national labor law.

The Kafala system, however, still isn't specifically mentioned in these laws which means it did not solve issues of inequality for domestic migrant workers. Another important female figure in formal networking in Jordan is again Queen Rania. Together with her foundation she organizes many initiatives in the fields of education, women's rights and the rights for children. Queen Rania shows that she is committed to her people and invested in improving the lives of her subjects by trying to open Jordan up to modern influences with her entrepreneurship. As a woman of high status in Jordan, Queen Rania has proven herself to not just being a First Lady, a wife to the king, and a mother; but to also be a woman that is embedded in and contributes to her society.

Divorce
Jordanian women who want to file for divorce have to do so through the religious courts, also known as the Shari'a court system. Variations in interpretation and application of divorce law, however, do exist among Islamic courts across the Middle East. Divorces in Jordan, in particular, often ignore women's rights and leave women with nothing if they are not supported by their families. Jordanian women often are reluctant to file for divorce as there exists a large cultural stigma on Jordanian women that get divorced since these women get blamed for letting the marriage fall apart and for betraying the family.

In recent years, from the year 2010, the government has worked to fix the problem in the court system by altering the judicial system and offering more rights to women. For example, "a new law has been drafted to force men to pay alimony for three years instead of six months, which was previously the case.” Because men are free to divorce and stop supporting their wives if they are "disobedient," another law created an obligatory fund for divorced women, guaranteeing them a settlement from their ex-husband.