This article discusses the challenge women face to access to leadership position and full political participation, after the Arab Spring 2011. It emphasizes the reforms effort needed to enhance this participation, such as: 1) mending election laws; 2) increasing high-level employment opportunities and 3) using public education to highlight the role of women and counter perceptions of traditional gender roles.
This platform is part of the Axis 1 "Strengthening the capacities of equality actors" of the Priority Solidarity Fund "Women for the future in the Mediterranean" funded by the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs and led by the European Institute of the Mediterranean, in the framework of the project “Developing Women's Empowerment” labelled by the Union for the Mediterranean.
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