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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020...al-sadr-call-segregation-200214085945369.html
challenging the norms, demanding the return of their stolen rights
challenging the norms, demanding the return of their stolen rights
A new, confident generation
One result of women taking on leading roles, protesters say, is that Iraq's often conservative gender dynamics have started to shift as more women carve out a place for themselves in the country's public sphere.
"Society inside the square has changed," said one of the march organisers, 23-year-old Fatama Ramadan. "You can see there's a difference [in how women are perceived] between inside and outside [of Tahrir Square]."
In Iraq, where gender segregation is often the norm, protesters have challenged the country's conservative communities by sharing the same living quarters and ensuring the equal participation of both sexes.
"Taking into consideration that the challenges of violence [are] so great against them, but they have broken down all these tribal norms, the religious fatwa, the hegemony of male mentality against them. This is a new era we are living in," said 74-year-old Hanaa Edwar, an Iraqi civil rights activist.
"They are very much different from the old generation in this respect," said Edwar, who has been active in women's rights movements for more than 50 years.