Women in Tunisia

A summary of the Tunis

Tunisia is located in the north African continent. From the north and east of the country washed by the Mediterranean Sea, which forms a very mild and temperate climate throughout the country.

According to statistical data, the population of Tunisia is 10 million man.

The state language is Arabic in Tunisia. Arab Tunisian dialect very specific. Tunisian dialect heavily saturated with words borrowed from the French

Since the French protectorate, which ended in 1956, the second in Tunis is the prevalence of the French language, which is so deeply infiltrated into all sectors of national life that its dominance in the 50 - s even forcing the first President of independent Tunisia, Habib Bourguiba, to adopt a law on the protection of the Arabic language.

A woman and her role in the republic of Tunisia

Tunisia - this is probably the only country in the Arab world, where women enjoy equality with men.

In Tunisia, a woman is considered to be free compared to other mussulman women, and it does not insist, that the Tunisian woman does not respect Isslama. The truth is that the Tunisian laws do not give women the right to wear the veil. But at the end of 2007, these laws are no longer valid.

Compared with other musulman women, the Tunisian woman found a place in society.

Unlike most maghrebian and Arab countries, Tunisia is a country urbanized (60% of the residents are citizens).

So, the city created more jobs than the village and conducive to the device to work for her. Together with the policy of improving the cultural and living standards of women, this provision has created relatively high proportion of Tunisian participation of women in active life, as evidenced by these statistics:

In 1996 some 100 workers are women 30.2 Tunisian woman works in almost all sectors of public life:

– In Parliament, women constitute 4.16% elected (as against 18% in Europe).
– In the municipalities - 14%.
– In public administration - 27.6%.
– In education - 45.4% in primary schools, 38.4% secondary education (colleges, lyceums and others) and 39.6% in Universities and Higher Education.
– The medical sector they represent 33% of doctors and pharmacists 63%

Tunisia, of course, made huge achievements like the emancipation of women, especially if we compare the achievement of Tunisian women with other Arab women. But all the efforts now are aimed at implementing equal rights between men and women.

Tunisian women:
equal partnership effective

presidential action on August 13, 1992 are a real legislative revolution that has contributed to women's rights and consolidated a place that it occupies in the national development.

In this regard, the following figures are eloquent testimony to the wide horizons opened by President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to raise women to partner with the rank of full rights, along with the man in the construction of modern Tunisia.

Success in terms of self

Promotion and monitoring mechanisms for women

1 - The creation of the Ministry of Women, Family and Children.
2 - The creation of the National Council for Women and Family Affairs, strengthened through the creation of three technical committees responsible for compiling annual reports:
• and equal opportunity;
• The image of women in the media;
• The objectives of national and international women and the family.
3 - Creating a center for research, research, documentation and information on Women (CREDIF).
4 - establishment of a national commission "Women and Development".
5 - establishment of a national commission for the promotion of women in rural areas.

In human resource development

• ensuring equal opportunities for all levels of education..
• Over 99% of girls aged 6 years studying.
• In basic education and secondary education, the proportion of girls reached 52.4%.
• At the third level, girls represent 56.4% of the total number of students.
• improve women's health:
* Strengthening of medical examinations during the prenatal period, the percentage of 92%.
* Regression of death among pregnant women, reduced to 45 deaths per 100,000 live births.
* Increased life expectancy at birth for women, about 75 years.

Links

some sites on behalf of the individual:
1.The social dimension of the right to development
www.tunisieinfo.com

2.The Commission on the Status of Women
www.un.org

3.Address by President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali 12nd Congress at the opening of the National Union Tunisian Women (UNFT) (El Menzah, March 19 2005)
www.infotunisie.com

4.certificate of the country
tour.yandis.ru

5.Tunisia and the West
tunisia-info.ru

6.Address by Mrs. Neziha Zarrouk, Minister of Women Affairs and Family
www.un.org/womenwatch

7.Address by President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali on the occasion of 50 anniversary of the Code of Personal Status
www.carthage.tn

8.Citation Mrs. Leila Ben Ali
www.unft.org.tn

9.The participation of Tunisian women in development: the state places on their integration into the labour market
www.afkaronline.org

10.Women living under Muslim Law
www.wluml.org

11.Tunisian women, since the change
www.tunisie21.tn