"Rothna Begum, a senior researcher in the Women's Rights Division, conducted the research and drafted this report. Nisha Varia, advocacy director in the Women's Rights division edited the report."--Acknowledgments. "March 2021"--Table of contents page. Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:
"[This report details] official male guardianship guardianship rules and practices, through analysis of 73 interviews including 50 in-depth interviews with women, and a detailed review of relevant laws, policies, and practices. The report finds that women must obtain permission from their male guardians--who may be their father, brothers, uncles, grandfathers, and, when married, their husband--to exercise many of their basic rights, including to travel abroad until certain ages, marry, obtain a government scholarship to pursue higher education, work in many government jobs, and obtain some reproductive health care.... The findings show that, combined with other discriminatory laws and practices, male guardianship limits the ability of women in Qatar to live full, productive, and independent lives"--Page 4 of cover.
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