Future
man will have learned things about women that will make him apologize.
Tackling women’s issues and
expressing
them objectively is a
complicated process requiring rereading the social address to ensure
appropriate discussion of such issues without the influence of
subjectivity.In this context, women’s efforts in embodying
their rights to defend their existence by
expressing their real
concerns and problems isn’t an easy task, considering the faked values
posing a great barrier to women, even while expressing their biological
issues. The prevailing social culture helps boost dangerous concepts
concerned with edging out women’s role in running daily affairs.Some
approaches advocate women returning to the home while others criticize
women’s engagement and participation in political activities.
Additionally, fatwas and jurisprudence provide differing views
regarding a woman’s niqab (veil), her being a ruler and leaving her
home without her man (mahram).From time to time, societies
provoke honor crimes against women while those perpetrators who commit
violence against women escape punishment due to the prevailing culture
of fear. Women tend to adopt clearer attitudes when explaining their
sensitive issues, thus highlighting natural morals and the ambiguous
psychological barriers posed to
progress in discussing their daily
issues.With its conservative views, society upholds the theory
of hypocrisy as a means to avoid the philosophy of stigma. Such a fact
supposes absence of the mind and negligence of logic in any scope of
freedom granted to women to express their issues without engaging in
clashes with cultural heritage.In order for lifestyle to be
unaffected and principles adhered to, women must be granted all of
their legal rights; otherwise, they’ll be intimidated by the whip of
horror and numerous obstacles due to be posed to their progress and
qualification.Educated women always adhere to several
principles in their intellectual talks, while women writers are
governed by behavioral regulations reflecting their personality as
novelists and poets.Women politicians always are pushed by an
organizational fellowship and specific partisan progress, while career
women usually exhaust their energy and sell the power of their work
twice: first for money and secondly for spiritual support. Housewives
automatically prefer the safe way leading to the shade.In this
way, with all its barriers and obstacles, Yemeni society restricts
women’s freedom of expression and prevents them from publicizing their
rights. Society places red lines that are impossible for women to
cross, thus likening them to turtles, which are subjected to harm by
the outside world if they go beyond their internal world (the sea).Women’s
real problem isn’t conflict with men; rather, they are struggling
against social backwardness and an environment of injustice and
oppression. The way women deal with their issues today must be
reconsidered in order to rectify the work strategy in such a way
suiting the demands of the time and interpreting the requirements of
social privacy.Huda Alawi is assistant professor of criminal law at Aden University’s Faculty of Law.