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There should be a counterpoint video which is just a working class woman not allowed to leave the house.
The majority of Emirati women are working class and can leave the house.
Over 77 per cent of Emirati women enroll in higher education after secondary school and make up 70 per cent of all university graduates in the UAE. Notably, 61 per cent of university graduates in scientific fields are women. Once finished with their university education, women in the UAE have near-limitless employment options ahead of them. Many of them choose to work in Stem fields to contribute to the country’s development in advanced fields such as artificial intelligence, robotics and industrial technology.
When Emirati women look around, they constantly see female representation that encourages them on their path. In fact, 55.5 per cent of the members of the Emirates Scientists Council are women, 34 per cent of the Emirates Mars Mission team was comprised of women, and women made up 70 per cent of the team behind the UAE Astronaut Programme, which produced the UAE’s first astronaut.
https://www.thenationalnews.com/opinion/comment/2022/02/11/how-the-uae-has-empowered-its-women/
Women in the UAE are allowed to drive, vote, work, and own and inherit property. A report from the In the World Economic Forum ranked the UAE second-best in the Middle East and North African (Mena) region for gender equality.
However, context is important.
First, in the WEF’s Global Gender Gap report, the Mena region had the lowest score of all the regions - and apart from Israel, none of its countries were in the top 100. The UAE was ranked 120th in the world out of 153. And while the UAE does have an anti-discrimination law, sex and gender aren’t included in its definition of discrimination.
Then, while women do have rights, under the Personal Status Law some of these are dependent on the formal approval of a male “guardian” - that is a man, often a spouse or other male relative, who grants a woman permission to do certain things. Although the UAE’s guardianship laws aren’t as strict or wide-reaching as neighbouring Saudi Arabia’s, they do impact women’s lives. At other times, where women do have rights, it is hard in practice for women to defend them in a court of law.
