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The role of women in Egypt has changed ... the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women reported that 99.3% of Egyptian women had ...
The National Strategy for the Empowerment of Egyptian Women 2030 was adopted by the President of Egypt in 2017. Directive to the Government of Egypt to adopt all its contents and consider it as a guide and a roadmap for all the work concerning the empowerment of women. The Strategy has 34 SDG's indicators and comprises four main pillars: [7]
Egyptian press and periodicals, including women's press grew during a period of nationalist movements in Egypt, it was a key way to debate political issues. Women's press was less censored than the mainstream patriarcal press, as British occupying forces saw it as less of a threat to power. [ 9 ]
Since 2011, the EFU reformed as a non-profit, non-governmental organization under the original name but with a different goal and team. [14] [15] This was sparked largely due to the 2011 Egyptian Revolution during which many feminist activism groups formed alliances and played a large role in a number of demonstrations and sit-ins against Hosni Mubarak and the Egyptian government.
A January 2011 survey of youth stated the 13.5% of women felt that sexual harassment was the most serious risk they face on Egypt's streets on a day-to-day basis. 15.9% felt it was the greatest risk when using bus transportation and 23% felt it was the greatest risk they face when taking the train. [20]
Women on Walls (Arabic: ست الحيطة Sitt el-Heita) is a public art project in Egypt aimed at empowering women through the use of street art, by encouraging the portrayal of strong Egyptian female figures in street art and empowering female street artists themselves to participate in the political space of graffiti.
In 2019, Morsy was member of the Egyptian Delegation discussing Egypt's universal periodic report by the UN human rights council. [11] During her time , The National Council for Women together with the World bank Group in Egypt launched the Women's Economic Empowerment Report [12] in 2019.
UN Women, the United Nations agency dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women, has a Regional Office for the Arab States (ROAS) in Cairo, Egypt, as well as several country offices covering 17 countries across the Arab States region. [37]