In Egypt's New Parliament, Women Will Be Scarce
"It really hurts so much when the same people you were with in that square that day, who are fighting against the regime ... are now turning against you," says Dalia Ziada, an activist who ran for parliament. "It's like betrayal, betrayal from our companions."Like many Egyptian women, she was a victim of female genital mutilation as a child and that's led her to become an advocate of women's rights. But she found that changing attitudes toward women in politics is an uphill battle
"I tried to test how the society is thinking about women after the revolution," she says. "We went to three locations ... and we did a survey that was composed of only one question. Would you accept to see your president as a woman? One hundred percent of them said 'no.' This is what people think, it's okay to have democracy, but women are not in the equation of democracy."
http://www.npr.org/2012/01/19/145468365/in-egypts-new-parliament-women-will-be-scarce
