While the world is progressing towards empowering women in unprecedented ways starting from subsidising tampons, paving more ways for women in start-ups and pricing women’s razors as low as men’s, basic rights for Egyptian women remain denied and culturally challenged. Some Egyptian women and girls face stubborn cultural traditions that rusty minds cannot seem to get rid of. 1. A man can marry a woman 20 years his junior. But if a woman marries a man one year younger, it is frowned upon. In most cases, it is regarded as black magic “3amal” 2. Men in their 30s are found most attractive and at the peak of their youth “3ezz shababhom”. But for a 30 year old lady, life’s train has left her behind “El Atr Fatha” 3. A marriage between a divorced man and a woman who has never married is blessed, but a divorced woman is looked down upon and cannot be with a man who has never been married. 4. When a man sexually harasses a woman, it is her fault as the way she dresses is provocative. 5. For guys, pre-martial sex is considered a normal conduct…
