Exercise #2

Emirati women and workforce in a clash of culture

What is the conflict?

The "Islamic" religion has a dynamic, flexible and keep pace system every time in every era. Every problem that face human being "Islam" found  the solution to solve it. women's for example, in the "pre-Islamic" Arabia before Islam; had no rights. When a female baby was born it was considered as a disgrace to the family and "female infanticide" was a common response. Nowadays some people are doing the same but in another way, they want to deprive women from working in order not to work in a mixed environment.

What is the cultural view behind the conflict ? 

The main idea that has gradually caused this phenomenon is that some emirati families are afraid of breaking the Islamic rules and the traditional habits at the same time,  so in case to avoid that they started to deprive women's  from working in order not to mix with men. If she wants to continue her journey she must face her family and convince them to let her work in the field that she wants to work in.  

Who is involved ?

The ones who will be judging the women choice are of course her family specially men's. It could be her father, or her brother, or her husband who will be deciding  whether she will work in this place or not.In the passage that I had read recently, Sara Humaid friend and Mariam, changed their study major just because their relatives disagree to let them work in a mixed environment. 

What is the best solution to solve this phenomenon ?

In my opinion I think that the best solution to solve this kind of problems is that we have to apply our original Islamic prospective in order to gain some good results, Advising is a good conductor too, it can affect the listener directly. I disagree depriving women's from working. we should cooperates with them otherwise our country will not develop. If she is educated enough and has all the requirement that qualify her to change her country why not !. Nowadays There are several facts that says some women's equals 10 men, and the simplest example for this are the women's who works on the military field, and in my point of view I think that no one can deny that.

My worldview :

Our worldview concentrate on three main things, Power/fear, Guilt/innocent, honor/shame. In my point of view I think that the most influenced thing in my world view is honor/shame, because as I mentioned before that some families  are afraid of making any small defect on their tradition aspects. The second point is Guilt/innocent, some families feels guilty about their choices that they made for their daughter in whether they want her to work or not. The last point is power/fear, It depends on whether this person wants to make a difference on his life or not.