Shaping the future is a daunting challenge for girls and women in the Middle East and North Africa. While the global average for women in parliament is 25%, across the Arab world women have only 7% of parliamentary seats. WHERE CHANGE IS HAPPENINGLooking at the annual list of the “world’s 100 most powerful Arab women,” it should come as no surprise that only 5% of those named are in government. Although women slightly outnumber men in higher education across the MENA, their participation even in the educational sector still lags. In Morocco, the OPUS prize was awarded to Aicha Ech Chenna for her work with single mothers and girls’ education.

Source: The North Africa Journal October 04, 2016 15:11 UTC