Talk:Women in Sudan

Why this article should be more generally titled Women in Sudan

Hi everyone, I also think that an article about gender inequality in Sudan is useful, but there should also be a more general article on Women in Sudan, as there is for other countries, like neighbouring Egypt.

Writing about women as part of the historical and present societies should include more than just gender inequalities. For example, women's roles and specific contributions to culture like music, the visual arts or literature, to education, politics and governance, the Sudanese revolution and forms of feminism could be under this more general pagename, with gender inequality as a separate, focussed article. Munfarid1 (talk) 10:15, 31 May 2021 (UTC)

Since there was no discussion about this name change during more than two years, I have just renamed this article "Women in Sudan", which also corresponds to articles about women in other countries. Munfarid1 (talk) 08:55, 28 August 2023 (UTC)

Some source material on contemporary Sudan before the revolution

The following section from the The Oxford Encyclopedia Women in World History could serve as source to paraphrase: (If you register with Wikipedia library, you can get free access to this:

"The story of women in contemporary Sudan is a complicated one of increased public and political participation, including activism in the nationalist movement toward 1956 independence and involvement in party politics and guerrilla movements—such as the Muslim Brotherhood/National Islamic Front, the Republicans, the Communist Party, and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement—in the war efforts, and in the obtaining of various rights, such as the vote (1965). Furthermore, despite various government dictates during the late-twentieth-century conservative regimes, poor women in the urban north have also been more visible as part of loose urban networks—for instance, illicit distribution systems, illicit services, and non-Islamic ritual practices. Simultaneously, southern and western women have been involved in developing survival mechanisms and community networks and have participated in the war effort as combatants and supporters.

Sudan has a postcolonial record of partially gender-integrated democratic institutions and grassroots populism, even when the military was in control—a twentieth-century story of strong and independent trade unions and professional associations. Before the Islamists came to power in 1989, Sudan had one of the largest and most revered Communist parties in Africa or the Middle East, as well as a powerful women's union. Prominent liberal and leftist women played leadership roles within these organizations during the nationalist movement and in contemporary struggles. Suad Ibrahim Ahmed, Fatima Babikar Mahmoud, Fatima Ahmed Ibrahim, Khadiga Safwat, Nafisa Ahmed el-Amin, Khalda Zahir, and many others were active. However, with the combination of the rise of the Islamists and the increased violence in the south and west, many fled into exile.

In the early twenty-first century, with the power of the Islamist state somewhat eroded, some Sudanese returned. A number of women had been organizing from various exile sites, including Egypt, England, Eritrea, and Kenya, and returned to join those women's groups—both organizations that worked underground and non-governmental organizations—that never left, for the promise of a new Sudan and a more active role for women within it. This has brought a younger generation of women to the forefront and has set the stage for more ethnically diverse women's leadership strata."

Of course, we need also up to date information on the present stage of transition... Munfarid1 (talk) 10:26, 31 May 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia Ambassador Program course assignment

This article was the subject of an educational assignment at University of Utah supported by the Wikipedia Ambassador Program during the 2013 Spring term. Further details are available on the course page.

The above message was substituted from {{WAP assignment}} by PrimeBOT (talk) on 17:18, 2 January 2023 (UTC)