<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Under the umbrella of democratic transition, a new constitution was written which encourages more for gender equality and provides Tunisian women with further rights, mainly the political ones, to improve more the status of women within the complexity of the Tunisia society. This paper intends to focus on the Gender Gap Index, a methodological approach for the measurement of gender equality published by the World Economic Forum, to examine the regulations on women’s rights in the Tunisian constitution and to connect the statistics with legal achievement in order to try to answer the main research question: to what extent laws about Tunisian women’s rights are translated in practice?</p></abstract>

Under the umbrella of democratic transition, a new constitution was written which encourages more for gender equality and provides Tunisian women with further rights, mainly the political ones, to improve more the status of women within the complexity of the Tunisia society. This paper intends to focus on the Gender Gap Index, a methodological approach for the measurement of gender equality published by the World Economic Forum, to examine the regulations on women’s rights in the Tunisian constitution and to connect the statistics with legal achievement in order to try to answer the main research question: to what extent laws about Tunisian women’s rights are translated in practice?

Women’s status in Tunisia post revolution, legal acquis and real achievements

Research in Social Change

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Under the umbrella of democratic transition, a new constitution was written which encourages more for gender equality and provides Tunisian women with further...

Women’s status in Tunisia post revolution, legal acquis and real achievements

Published Online: Jul 21, 2021

Page range: 83 - 101

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rsc-2020-0005

© 2020 Nawel Ghali, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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Structure of the Global Gender Gap IndexSource: World Economic Forum 2015, 5 (The Global Gender Gap Report 2015)

Evolution of the unemployment rate in Tunisia between 2005 and 2015Source: Author/INS Tunisia (United Nation, Economic Commission for Africa, 2016)