{"id":26483,"date":"2013-07-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/26483\/why-lebanons-award-for-outstanding-women-completely-misses-the-point"},"modified":"2023-08-30T07:23:34","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T07:23:34","slug":"why-lebanons-award-for-outstanding-women-completely-misses-the-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/26483\/why-lebanons-award-for-outstanding-women-completely-misses-the-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Lebanon&#8217;s Award for &#8216;Outstanding Women&#8217; Completely Misses the Point"},"content":{"rendered":"  <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"490\" height=\"380\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0GjcfBJgyMI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>  <br \/>  <br \/>  This 45-second video to promote the upcoming awards ceremony to honor Lebanon&#8217;s &#8216;Outstanding Women&#8217; would seem like a slap in the face to anyone who knows anything about the real status of  the female gender in this country.<br \/>  <br \/>  When will the women who&#8217;ve made real, tangible achievements in Lebanon be recognized for their work? Moreover, it seems provocative (and almost patronizing) to &#8220;applaud&#8221; women in the first place when they remain, for the most part, second-class citizens in their own country.<br \/>  <br \/>  Here are just a few examples of what I&#8217;m talking about:<br \/>  &#8211;In Lebanon, it is perfectly legal for a man to rape his own wife. <br \/>  &#8211;Furthermore, a rapist can have his sentence reduced if he agrees to marry his victim.<br \/>  &#8211;Abortions remain illegal.<br \/>  &#8211;A woman cannot pass on Lebanese citizenship to her children.<br \/>  &#8211;Lebanon recognizes 18 official sects, each with its own courts, laws and traditions. This translates into 18 different stances on issues such as marriage, divorce and inheritance. <br \/>  &#8211;The punishment for committing an honor killing can be as little as three months behind bars.<br \/>  &#8211;Child custody rules are biased towards the husband in cases of divorce.<br \/>  <br \/>  And with all these examples taken into consideration, there are currently only four women in the 128-member parliament: Nayla Tueini, Gilberte Zouein, Bahiya Hariri and Strida -Geagea. Four.<br \/>  <br \/>  It comes off as a sort of disgusting disregard for the real treatment of women in this country when we point to a figure like Fatme Sahmarani as a role model for our gender. I&#8217;m sick of hearing about people making \u201cachievements\u201d when we all know that in Lebanon, if you&#8217;re in a position that even remotely involves some kind of power, it&#8217;s because you know someone, who knows someone, who put you there &#8212; especially if you&#8217;re a woman. In Sahmarani&#8217;s case, it was her dad who helped her become the mayor of Sor.<br \/>  <br \/>  I\u2019d give away my entire fortune (which is roughly $400) to award, honor and respect someone in this country who has actually made it on his\/her own without any <i>wasta<\/i> involved. [Sigh.]<br \/>  <br \/>  All this talk about special privileges reminds me of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/1343734\/My-marriage-of-misery-to-a-billionaire.html\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Mona Ayoub<\/a>, the Lebanese woman who married a Saudi millionaire, got divorced and made a fortune selling his belongings and writing a book about her &#8220;achievements&#8221; in 2000 called, <i>The Truth<\/i>.<br \/>  <br \/>  Kill me now. Thank you.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This 45-second video to promote the upcoming awards ceremony to honor Lebanon&#8217;s &#8216;Outstanding Women&#8217; would seem like a slap in the face to anyone who knows anything about the real status of  the female gender in this country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":450167,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","_preview_accessed":0,"_lftp_listicle_injection":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[338],"media-embed-type":[210],"class_list":["post-26483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wtf","tag-wtf","media-embed-type-video"],"authorship":[170],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.5 (Yoast SEO v28.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why Lebanon&#039;s Award for &#039;Outstanding Women&#039; 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