What blocks Arab women from being integrated into political action?

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The Palestinian women in Israel, between the hammer of institutionalized discrimination and exclusion and the anvil of patriarchy in Arab society.

Meysam will start with the historical review! From 1948 until today and the transformations that have taken place in the status of Arab women.

She will refer especially to the last two decades in which the percentage of women's education increases and also their involvement in the employment market and how this affects their status and at the same time is not reflected in the political field.

She will list the reasons for avoiding political involvement at the Israeli national level and at the local level and as an example she will tell us about the initiatives of women, mothers for life.

About the speaker:

Meysam is a resident of Tira, married and the mother of three children.

She has a bachelor's degree in criminology and sociology and a master's degree in educational leadership.

She is a social, feminist and political activist.

For many years she has been working and leading struggles in a variety of fields: workers' rights, women's rights, the struggle against occupation and the struggle for a common and equal society.

 Today she serves as the CEO of the Tsofen organization, which promotes involvment in the high-tech industry in the Arab community.

* In the past, she served as Naamat chairperson in the Southern Triangle region and as co-chairwoman of the "Sikuy Ofik" association, the association for the promotion of equality and partnership.

She was a member of the House of Representatives of the Histadrut.

Board member of the "Itach Ma'aki" association - female lawyers for social justice and a member of the leadership of the "Standing Together" movement, an Arab-Jewish movement for equality, social justice and peace. For the past two years, she has been leading the Mothers for Life Forum together with Arab bereaved mothers.