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Hello and welcome to your talk page. You can use this message to practice answering, and you should try to contact someone else too!Jagrif02 (talk) 17:33, 6 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you!BlueWaterloo72 (talk) 14:14, 7 September 2017 (UTC)BlueWaterloo72
 * You are Welcome BlueWaterloo72. I didn't see this until I was grading the in-class workshop because you didn't ping me in your message, so I wasn't aware of you trying to message me.Jagrif02 (talk) 21:23, 12 September 2017 (UTC)

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Hey girl, let me know if you see this! CollegeFreshmen (talk) 03:19, 13 September 2017 (UTC)

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Comment on Copy Edit
Your copy edit to Women's rights in Saudi Arabia is arguably less neutral than the original. You modified "The status of women has changed" to read, "The status of women has improved." Improvement is a value statement from a specific point of view. Jagrif02 (talk) 20:28, 26 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I was slightly concerned about this when I originally wrote this. I will change it to read, "The status of women has changed in recent decades." Thank you for the feedback. BlueWaterloo72 (talk) 21:56, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

Plan for Contribution in "Women in the Arab Spring"
Overview:

This article highlights the role of women during the period of the “Arab Spring”, which was a time of revolution and protests in the Middle East, where change was brought about politically in most countries. It also relates the role of religion and governmental policies which helped to bring about the protests in the first place. This article mentions the countries that were revolutionized in part to the women that came from those areas.

Objectives:

Ø Add to the “After the protests” section of “Women in the Arab Spring” Wikipedia article.

Ø This contribution will add onto a section that is need of an update due to current events.

Plan:

v Separate the article section into the different countries that have seen the most significant change.

v Mention the different legislations passed

v Add in information that has been written within the past 4 years or so

v Expound on the previous facts that are already in this section.

v Sources I plan on using include news articles and academic journals, as there aren’t enough academic journals that are current enough for the changes that are happening. I will try to be careful and stay away from biased news reports.

·    Gendering the Arab Spring? Rights and (in)security Tunisian, Egyptian, and Libyan women”

·    “Beyond the Arab Spring”

·    “The Next Arab Spring? Women’s Rights”

v I will be using an assortment of different sources, as I have to find information on four different countries, all of which had different outcomes.

Countries:

Ø Tunisia:

v Women are participating more in government, but still struggle to be heard in a male-dominated field.

v Gained many rights, such as the ability to obtain a divorce, polygamy banned, and gaining custody of their children.

v Much controversy follows the inclusion of gender specific amendments to Tunisia’s new constitution.

v The status of women is still unclear due to the language that was used in this new amendment.

Ø Libya:

v Women fled Libya in order to escape the rape and murder that they were experiencing from their own people and from the rebels who controlled the region.

v Still experiencing political instability.

v Elections are in low attendance due to the violence that occurs at polling places.

v Until an official government is in place, the outlook on women’s rights looks bleak.

Ø Saudi Arabia

v Women received the right to drive

v Women are more educated than men, but still have to have permission to get a job, and men are often picked over them, despite being more educated.

v Child marriages haven’t seen much improvement, as Saudi Arabia is still ranked in the bottom 10 of countries in the Gender Gap Report

Ø Egypt

v Public sexual harassment that started in the Arab Spring hasn’t changed except for the fact that women can now take their attackers to court and win, even against military officials.

v Egypt is still under military control, waiting for an actual government to be voted in.

v Women fear that if the religious parties take control, they will lose the ground they’ve gained.

Wikipedia Standards:

Ø Facts are appropriately sourced.

Ø All facts are relevant to the topic. If the article is not neutral, I plan to announce the author's bias, or work to keep solely the facts that come from these sources.

Ø As this is an article concerning gender issues, the POV for women is represented to a greater extent than the POV for their male counterparts.

Ø The links for the sources work and connect to the appropriate articles.

Ø The information that is currently in this article is not outdated, however, there is no up-to-date information from the past four years, which is due to the article not being updated since 2013.

The substance of my contribution will be updating the current article, in order to make sure that it will be informative on the progress that is still being made in the region of the world. This topic is one that I believe to be of great importance, as the women in the Middle East are still being oppressed, regardless of the work that they put in during the Arab Spring

Sources: 1.	Rivetti, Paola, “Continuity and Change Before and After the Uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and          Morocco: Regime Reconfiguration and Policymaking in North Africa.” British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, vol. 42, no. 1, Jan. 2015, pp. 1-11. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1080/13530194.2015.973181.

2.	Armstrong, Sally. “A Year Later, Still Dreaming of Change.” Maclean’s, vol. 125, no. 7, 2 Feb. 2012, pp. 30-31

3.	Imai, Kunihiko and Aysegul Keskin Zeren. “Democracy in the Middle East: Arab Spring and Its Aftermath.” International Journal on World Peace, vol. 3, no. 2, June 2017, pp. 7-46. EBSCOhost

4.	Brym, Robert and Robert Anderson. “Democracy, Women’s Rights, and Public Opinion in Tunisia.” International Sociology, vol. 31, no. 3, May 2016, pp. 253-267. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1177/0286580916629622

5.	Rooney, Caroline. “Egypt’s Revolution, Our Revolution: Revolutionary Women and the Transnational Avant-Garde.” Journal for Cultural Research, vol. 19, no. 2, June 2015, pp. 139-149. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1080/14797585.2014.982918

6.	Hehir, Aidan and James Pattison. “Introduction: The Responsibility to Protect After the Arab Spring.” Cooperation and Conflict, vol. 51, no. 2, June 2016, pp. 141-147. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1177/0010836715612853

7.	Laipson, Ellen. “Taking the Long View on the Changing Status of Women in the Middle East.” World Politics Review (Selective Content), 11/1/2016, pp. 1-3. EBSCOhost

8.	“UN Disgraces the World with its Appeasement of Saudi Arabia.” Arab American News, vol. 33, no. 1629, 29 Apr. 2017, p. 14. EBSCOhost.

In Tunisia, there has been an increase in women who are participating in government, with women securing 61 of the 217 seats in the Tunisian Constituent Assembly in the 2012 elections. They have also gained many rights, such as the ability to obtain a divorce and gain custody of their children, and polygamy was also outlawed in the area. However, in Tunisia’s new constitution, there is much controversy about the inclusion of gender specific amendments. In relation to the ambiguity of the language, the status of women is still unclear. Women are being publicly harassed for the way they dress. In one case, "...a young woman was raped by police officers and, when she took the officers to trial, was in turn charged by the justice system for public indecency...". The government of Tunisia has yet to make a law for protecting women against this type of violence[23]

As of 2013, Egypt had also seen some increase in the number of women who were in a seat of government, with 12 of the 498 seats in the Egyptian People's Assembly being occupied by women. This Assembly has since been disbanded and replaced with the Constituent Assembly. The new Assembly saw 6 seats out of the 100 go to women, all of whom walked out before the new constitution could be finished, which lead many Egyptian and United Nations legal experts to believe that the Constitution "did not prevent discrimination against women or safeguard the limited women's rights inherent in the PSL (Personal Status Law)".[23] The public sexual harassment epidemic is starting to slow down, as sexual harassment became a crime punishable with jail sentences and fines in 2014. Human rights groups are reporting that more women are reporting the crime and more men are being jailed for harassing.[24]

In 2012, the General National Congress of Libya saw women obtain 33 of the 200 seats. However, there is controversy concerning whether or not women and men can mix in a public setting. Violence against women has also seen an increase, as the number of women who are being intimidated and threatened with sexual harassment, virginity tests, and incarceration is rising. These are usually the women who are trying to be politically active, and who are also struggling to vote, as they are being chased out of polling stations to prevent the intermixing of men and women. So far, the government does not appear to by trying to help stop this violence.[23]

Women in Saudi Arabia now have the right to vote and the right to drive.[21][25] In 2015, the first year women were allowed to vote, the Saudi Arabian government had elected multiple women to different councils, with King Abdullah adding 30 women to the Shura Council, which is a group of advisors.[26] The issue of the male guardianship system is still prevalent, even though Saudi Arabia has told the UN twice that it would abolish the system. One of Saudi Arabia's most senior clerics has said that repealing the system would "pose an existential threat to Saudi society... and is a crime against the religion of Islam". Many activists hope that with the inclusion of more women in the workforce, Saudi society will be more open to this change.[27]