What Egypt women want

BY SAHAR AZIZ Cairo: Whether before or after the revolution, Egyptian women’s primary concern has been  the lack of economic and social development. A poll by the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies found that religion is not the most pressing concern for Arab women after the “Arab Spring.”  Rather the recent findings on Arabs’ attitudes towards women’s rights, religion, and other social issues in Muslim majority countries corroborate the notion that economic challenges take precedence over all other issues notwithstanding the historic revolutions. Nonetheless, Egyptian women’s representation in governance is starkly absent. Despite accounting for nearly a third of Egypt’s…