Talk:The Harem Years

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These unsourced comments may perhaps lead to article improvements so I've moved them here -- John of Reading (talk) 07:22, 20 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Important Note: The word" Harem" in the title was used metaphorically. It did not refer to a real Harem, a phenomenon Egypt had never witnessed throughout its history. The metaphorical reference was to draw attention to the practices of inequality against women at workplace and the widespread opinion in the 1920s and 1930s that men could do jobs better than women. Many women at the time faced bitter ridicule, like Lotfia El Nadi, the first female Egyptian pilot in 1933. The EGyptian Cinema at that time also rediculed female lawyers , and the public opinion was that women are not fit to work as judges or attorney generals because they lacked "emotional stability". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.111.147.22 (talk) 05:31, 11 February 2016

Important note: this is untrue and does not deserve to be on Wikipedia. Scholars like Beth Baron, Leila Ahmed, Marilyn Booth and Lisa Pollard have all explained the significance of Harem; it has nothing to do with anachronistic "workplace" and there most certainly was a Harem system in Egypt! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.76.8.32 (talk) 17:42, 15 May 2016