- 2024 -10 -10
- The Princess Basma Centre for Jordanian Women's Studies at the University of Yarmouk carried out an exploratory study on the challenges facing Jordanian women in political and party life, prepared by the Deputy Director of the Centre, Dr. Tariq Nasser, and the Head of Research and Studies at the Centre, Dr. Mounir Karadsha. The study included a sample of 712 women in Irbid governorate. The results showed that the vast majority of respondents did not participate in political life, at 75.0%, while the proportion actually participated in political life (25.0%). The findings also revealed that the vast majority of female respondents in the study had never been involved in party life, accounting for about 87.4%, while only 12.6% had previously participated in party life. The results of the study also revealed that approximately 41.6% of the participants in the study stated that they did not contribute to the introduction of political party programmes in their society, while 13.2% contributed, showing that Jordanian women contributed less to the introduction of political party programmes. The survey also showed that the proportion of women who felt that their society did not support their right to political decision-making accounted for 11.8 per cent of the total sample of the study, while a quarter of women who participated in the study and 24.7 per cent indicated that their society supported their right to political decision-making and to a large extent. At a related level, the study revealed that approximately 21.9 per cent of women participate in political life; But with great fears, while the proportion of those who participate in political life without any fears (11.0%), and with 17.7% of respondents, they stated that their society never supports their affiliation with political parties, while their community supports their affiliation with parties (17.1%). The study confirmed that 17.7% of respondents saw a real change in the perception of the Irbid governorate community about their party and parliamentary participation to a large and clear degree, while 10.7% of respondents showed that there was no change about their party and parliamentary participation ratios
