Egypt to have at least 64 women MPs after election (Wei Sheng)

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Being a male dominated society, Egypt is beginning to be more open-minded and see the fact that the country's prosperity is far more important than which gender is doing the work from. Beginning from Egypt establishing its first women's quota system in 1979 of 30 seats, to now - 31 years later, the seats are twice or even more as much available for the women.

However, there are some of the people who felt that this implemented idea is not successful. This can be seen from the source that a lady, Osmane who is a long-practising accountant claimed that she has been a party member all her life commented that 'the party is already very strong and full of important and brilliant men. It does not need women to strengthen its position.' I find it quite perplexing as someone of the same gender who would claim these kinds of saying, however she probably has an idea that probably the males could do it better as of now.

However, there are also people such as Gamila Ismail, an independent who has refused to join the list reserved for women, felt that the regime actually cheats women and uses them to boost its image abroad. She also said that women will participate fully in the political aspect when men do too, however they are unable to to participate in this regime as there is an electoral process that is not transparent.