Women in Algeria

Women in Algeria
Algerian women dressed in traditional garbs.
General Statistics
Maternal mortality (per 100,000)112 (2017)
Women in parliament8.11% (2021)
Women over 25 with secondary education79.30% (2021)
Women in labour force19.5% (2021)
Gender Inequality Index[1]
Value0.499 (2021)
Rank126th out of 191
Portrait of a young Algerian woman, painted by Georges Gasté before 1910.

Throughout Algeria's history as an independent state, there has been conflict between women's rights activists and conservatives about the status of women in Algeria.[2] The 1984 Algerian Family Code entrenched certain forms of gender inequality and discrimination against women.[2] Some progressive reforms were implemented in 2005 amendments to the law, but women are still unequal under Algerian law.[2]

  1. ^ "Human Development Report 2021/2022" (PDF). HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORTS. Retrieved 9 December 2022.
  2. ^ a b c Bordat, Stephanie Willman; Kouzzi, Saida (2023), Wing, Adrien K.; Kassim, Hisham A. (eds.), "Postponing Equality in the Algerian Family Code", Family Law and Gender in the Middle East and North Africa: Change and Stasis since the Arab Spring, Cambridge University Press, pp. 78–92, doi:10.1017/9781139151719.005, ISBN 978-1-107-02352-9

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