The women’s role within the modern Egyptian culture has yet to be determined, due to sexist views and beliefs. Gender separation is still being carried out within the schools, work and recreation to control their contact with men. Veils are also worn for the same purposes. Lower class families, particularly in Upper-Egypt, have lent towards withdrawing females from schools, once they reach sexual maturity, to reduce their communications with the opposite gender.

President of Egypt, Gamal Abdel Nasser, was branded as a state feminism, after bringing forth his guiding principle of vociferously promoting women’s rights through welfare state policies. In the year 1956 the Egyptian constitution assured women the right to vote and equal of opportunity, prohibiting gender-based bias. Employment laws were improved to ensure women’s status in the workplace and maternity leave was legally defended as well. During this same period, the state subdued self-governing activist, leaving a shortage of female political representation.

The economic liberalization strategy of the Sadat rule resulted in the failure of this practice and the renaissance of Islamist prompted strategy. While the Nasserist years permitted a wide range of analysis for women, Sadat’s strategies would reduce the opportunities available to women. Unemployment for women altered from 5.8% in the year 1960 to 40.7% in the year 1986. In place of strategies to economically defend women during pregnancy, women were expected to leave work altogether or only work part time.

The Mubarak years were denoted by additional destruction, pertaining to the role of women within the Egyptian culture. A study by the International Organization for Migration found that two-thirds of immigrant households interviewed, were led by a woman in the dearth of her husband or male immigrant. For these households, allowances were an essential source of income, accounting for 4.3% of their total wages. 52% of wives of the male immigrants independently determined how to spend the money which was obtained. In the remaining cases, the head of the household had a reasonable amount of independence as the conclusion on how to use the allowance money was accomplished through mutual consultation, and only 11% of the cases made this same decision alone.

Polls were taken in the year 2010 and 2011 and they indicate that 39% of Egyptians believed gender equality to be very crucial to Egypt’s future post development, and 54% of Egyptians favored gender separation within the workplace. 98% of alien women and 80% of native women, allege that they have been sexually harassed in Egypt, and two-thirds of Egyptian men have openly admitted to having harassed women.

Activists, pursuing equal rights for women, in efforts to convert the political stability, relocating women from the borders of power to stations where they can partake in civilization’s crucial decision-making.