Leading the front lines in the face of "Corona"
Emirati women have supported the homeland in its 50 steps
Amid exceptional circumstances, Emirati Women's Day comes to add new pages of heroism and achievements for the daughter of the Emirates. Emirates today
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Amid exceptional circumstances, Emirati Women's Day, which falls on August 28th, this year, comes to add new pages of heroism and achievements for the daughter of the Emirates, after she was able to stand in the front rows to deal with her brother, the man, of the Corona pandemic, and she works hard and diligently in various fields to preserve The homeland and its people, including citizens and residents, confirming their ability to assume responsibility, and their entitlement due to the pride, appreciation, and support they received from the state and its leadership.
The celebration of Emirati Women’s Day in 2020 carries the slogan “Planning for the Fifty ... Women as Support for the Homeland”, according to what was announced by Her Highness Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak, President of the General Women's Union, Supreme Chair of the Family Development Foundation and President of the Supreme Council for Motherhood and Childhood (Mother of the Emirates), confirming that during Preparing for the next 50 years, the daughter of the Emirates must be a strategic and pivotal partner in the process of foreseeing the future, and to contribute to it, along with her brother, the man, in drawing common features of the priorities that would contribute to building on the achievements and gains that the founding fathers of the state laid their foundations on, and whose path continues. His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the UAE, with his brothers, Their Highnesses, Rulers of the Emirates. Her Highness stressed that planning for the 50th is an opportunity to review the policies, legislation and initiatives issued by the various institutions to ensure that they take into account the emerging needs of women, and promote them to ensure the quality of life for future generations, on the one hand, and prepare a generation qualified with capabilities and capabilities that would complete the march, and carry the banner to push the country to more Achievements and progress in all regional and international forums on the other hand.
On the front lines
Her Highness Sheikha Fatima (Mother of the Emirates) affirmation of the need for women to actively participate in planning for the next 50 years, expresses her pride in what the daughters of the Emirates have provided since history until now, and the great efforts made by women in the Emirates during the new Corona pandemic, in order to protect Society from the spread of the "Covid-19" virus, and the implementation of precautionary measures, while continuing to live and work as much as possible. The women working on the front lines made achievements worthy of documentation and appreciation, especially the medical and nursing staff, whose workers set the finest examples of loyalty to the homeland and belonging to it, and the ability to sacrifice time and effort, and sometimes self, in order to perform their duty towards the homeland, so many of the crew members lived The medical staff kept months away from their families and loved ones, so that they would not be a cause of transmitting the infection to them, and most of them continued day and night in continuous work for days on end to confront a disease unknown to the whole world. The role of women during the pandemic was not limited to medical personnel only, as there were many fields of work and giving. In education, female teachers contributed to the work to continue the educational process remotely, on the other hand, mothers bore a large part of the responsibility for their children to complete their studies remotely, follow them up and encourage them to abide in exceptional circumstances. . The woman also bore the responsibility of preserving the health of the family, and ensuring that everyone adhered to all measures to prevent infection with the virus, in addition to following up on her work remotely in various fields.
Achievements by the numbers
The celebration of Emirati Women's Day goes back to the announcement of Her Highness Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak, in 2015, to allocate the 28th of August of every year to Emirati women, which is the same day on which the General Women's Union was established, in recognition of the achievements of women in the UAE, reflecting the extent of her keenness On uniting women's efforts by adopting several policies and strategies.
Since the establishment of the state, Emirati women, with the support of the state’s leaders, have achieved successive successes, revealed by figures and statistics. The World Bank showed in its report on “Women, Business and Law 2020”, issued last January, that the UAE is among the best countries in Improvements in the area of women's economic empowerment at the global level. The country has made remarkable progress in five main axes: starting work, getting money, marriage, children, and pension. Women in the country gained the right to vote and run in the Federal National Council since 2006, the year of the start of the electoral experiment, and the effectiveness of women's political participation increased with the issuance of His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the State, a decision allocating 50% of the seats for women in the National Council Federal.
Her Highness Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak: In preparing for the next 50 years, the daughter of the Emirates must be a pivotal partner in shaping the future.
The World Bank: The UAE is among the best countries for improvements in women's economic empowerment at the global level.
"The Hope Probe"
The year 2020 witnessed an unprecedented achievement, represented in the sending of the first Arab probe to Mars, which is the "Hope Probe". Emirati women were not absent from this achievement and the space field in general. We find that 34% of the members of the "Hope Probe" are women. And 50% of the leadership team in the probe, 55.5% in the Council of Young Scholars, and 37.5% in the Emirates Scholars Council.
Women ministers and diplomats
In the new ministerial formation, which was announced in June 2020, women maintained nine ministerial portfolios, the same number that they held in the previous formation, with a government participation rate of 27%, which puts them first in the percentage of Arab women’s participation in bodies making Decision and leadership positions.
In the diplomatic field, and until the year 2019, the number of Emirati women in the diplomatic and consular corps at the headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation reached 234 members, in addition to 42 women working in the diplomatic corps in the UAE's foreign missions. There are seven female ambassadors in the diplomatic corps at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.
Women occupy 66% of public sector jobs in the UAE, and this percentage rises to 75% in the education and health sectors. The labor law also stresses that the employer is not allowed to terminate a woman’s service or warn her because of her pregnancy, as well as the issuance of the 2018 decision on equal wages between the sexes, which led the country to occupy first place in the Arab world in the Equal Wage Index issued by the World Economic Forum 2018 .
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