Tunis — The works of the 2nd session of the conference on "Arab women's representativeness in parliament and its impact in boosting their role in the country's development process" was held on Tuesday in Gammarth, focused on the issue of women and public life, in international conventions and agreements.

Dr. Jaafar Abdesselam, a law professor at the University of El Azhar in Cairo (Egypt), gave a lecture in which he raised the issue of Islam and the legal status of women, highlighting the special place accorded to women in Islamic law ( Fiqh) and the system of rights and freedoms in religion .

For his part, Dr. Adel Abdelaziz Essen, advisor of the Arab Organization for Administrative Development in Egypt, presented a statistical reading of Arab women in the labor sector.

He said in this context that the participation of women in the labor market is active, quantitatively, even if there was no evidence of the evolution of their rights in this sector.

He noted that women often do not benefit from the same opportunities as those offered to men especially when it comes to training in the sector of new technologies.

He also indicated that the achievement of equality between both sexes in the workplace is an important impetus for the development process adding that the access of women to positions of economic and political decisions is likely to help achieve sustainable development.