Eman S. Morsı

Factories in Egypt are now a battle front for the workers' rights movement that began in December 2006. Most of these events were led or initiated by women. They say “We don't want anything of the sort [feminist demands], we just want to have a good salary and a decent life for both of us, women and men.”

If there is one thing that unites young Egyptian women in their twenties today it is that they are generally more articulate in expressing themselves than their mothers' and grandmothers' generation