Case Study: Egypt
The categories below comprise this study's look at the educational situation for Egyptian women. Click on the boxes to find more information on the obstacles that face women's access to education in the Middle East. You can also check out where Egypt stands in comparison to the rest of the Middle East here.
First, this research considers Egypt. Egypt is the largest country in North Africa, and its population in 2013 was over 86.9 million people, with 56 percent considered rural (UIS). The breakdown of this population is roughly 32.1 percent under age fifteen, 17.8 percent between fifteen and twenty-five years, 38.4 percent between twenty-five and fifty-four years, and ... Read more
In Egypt, societal expectations are one of the major cultural obstacles to women’s equal access to quality education, especially in rural areas. However, these social roles do not necessarily prevent women from going to school in Egypt: they prevent them from truly entering the labor force. Schooling for women in Egypt seems to be more about the social value of schooling rather than its use or intellectual value... Read more
The second category of obstacles facing women’s access to quality education in Egypt is resources. Egyptian schools lack the necessary resources from the Egyptian government to become high quality. Though Egypt has focused on, and for the most part achieved, a high quantity of Egyptian children in attendance of pre-primary and primary school, the quality... Read more
Egypt’s educational structure allows the teacher to be “the sole provider of knowledge with the ultimate power in the classroom [which] sets the students at a disadvantage, making them vulnerable” (Ghazal 113). Independent learning is discouraged through curricular emphasis on rote learning and memorization. Whether or not students may continue... Read More