Egyptian women struggle to fight gender-based discrimination

Egyptian women are struggling to fight [redacted] harassment in the street and gender-based discrimination at home, ABC Australia’s Walt Curnow writes. At the core of the issue is the pressure to conform to societal norms, particularly with parents enforcing these unwritten rules, gender equality academic Shereen El Feki says. On the flipside, women’s rights activist Dalia Abdel Hameed tells Al Bawaba that feminism in Egypt is “booming” and that attempts to preserve the status quo — including a campaign that calls on Egyptian men to “man up” by controlling what women wear — are “a reaction from men who don’t want to give up their privileges”.