A Battle Against Stereotypes: Role of Arab Women in the GCC countries

It is believed that Arab women are pitiful creatures who follow their husbands like a dark shadow, is forced to remain silent and obey their husbands at all times, and is granted a body only to deliver more children, perhaps more in competition with her husband's other wives. The typical Arab wife, as perceived by the mass media, has no real say in the running of the household and that it is the men who …

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