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Gender mainstreaming and women’s role in decision making processes
23-10-2017
The Minister of Education and Higher Education (MEHE) and the National Commission for Lebanese Women (NCLW), in partnership with the German Agency for International Development, launched on Friday the ‘Gender mainstreaming in educational decision making mechanisms and policies’. The experimental scheme seeks to develop the mainstreaming of women’s rights and gender equality in the MEHE policies which could reflect positively on the overall national educational policy. On the occasion, the minister of education, Marwan Hamadeh, underlined the aim of the project in “expanding the notions of gender and searching the roots of discrimination in our school and social education,” as he said. It seeks to establish behaviors that observe true equality in rights and responsibilities between the sexes to the effect of sustaining rights and equality in the administrative, educational and public life, in light of a true gender equality and a complete acceptance and adoption by the educated segment of society, Hamadeh explained. In a related vein, Nadwatul Ibdaa on Friday opened its cultural season for 2017/2018 with a talk entitled, ‘The impact of women on decision-making’ at Toufic Tabbara Center in Sanayeh, Beirut. Salwa Khalil, director of Nadwatul Ibaa, pointed out that the systematic marginalization of the role of women in political life is contrary to the established conception on the equality between men and women as a facet of human reality, and is contrary to the Lebanese Constitution stating that people are the ultimate source of authority, including men and women equally. She appealed to women to overcome all obstacles that obstruct their access to decision making positions and to boldly endorse their presence in the upcoming electoral lists. (Al Diyar, Al Mustaqbal, October 21, 2017)
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