Omani women future

    • Omani women future

      At the beginning I want to greet every Omani active woman who tries to prove that she and many others like her are capable of sharing the man the national duty of building a modern country.
      I was hesitant about bringing up the topic but the questions that pop up in my mind whenever I give a thought about Omani women compelled me to write it down and discuss it with other so that I might be close to an answer that will help me to know better Omani women; her hopes, dreams, and ambitions.
      I remember once in my class a lady said "WE WANT OUR RIGHTS." Actually, I couldn’t make out these rights but I was sure that there is something in her heart made her reveal that statement. Then the teacher tried to make her say more about that but she said only that women here in Oman don’t work and are entirely dependent on man that she can't make her own decisions. So I thought again and at home I asked myself various questions here are some of them:

      What type of work that would fit our women? Teachers, nurses…. Maybe there is more.
      Why do we find that women here prefer to be teachers as if there is no other work where she can prove her potentials? (I am sure that the reason is not always the family choice).
      Why female students are are more brilliant at school, colleges and the university and then we rarely hear about the feminine brilliance at work?
      Is there really in Oman a movement to correct the Omani women condition?
      How do our women view co-work and co-education? Are they discouraging for their hope and dreams?
      Does the Omani woman herself share the blame? In the last alshura council election, few women voted. Why? Although not all Omani men prevented their women from voting.
      Considering Islam that pays all respect to women what rights the women don’t find here within Islamic morals?
      To tell the truth I have no idea about the answer for I can't see a clear feminine movement in Oman that ask for rights and produce books and magazines that elucidate women needs in Oman.
      Thanks, and I mean no offence.



    • Thank you الطائر المقهور
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      Well, I will go straight to your questions and say that your questions or some of them have different answers as time passes. I guess I would have given a complete different answers should you presented those questions ten years ago, and a different answer should you put them in ten years to come

      I guess our women would fit every where, and to find them hurrying to teaching is they or their families want them to be in a feminine atmosphere in a try to avid mixing with men. Teaching too, though is a very hard job, some think it is easy and fun
      Girls by nature can do better than boys at schools, academically that is and it could be too to them spending more time at home and not much to do but study hard. As I said and as time passes I am sure we are going to see women in every job just like men

      Women affairs I believe are tackled and discussed at different levels and at different aspects
      I do not think any woman like to be not accounted for, and Omani woman is no exception, and for women to vote is building up and I am sure more women would go for it soon, and do not forget, elections and voting is not a one day process and I guess we are going ok, and I believe women got so many rights that fall within Islam and beyond that. Rights are evolving demand and I do not mind seeing a progress done day by day and year by year

      10derness

    • Words can not express my great gratefulness for sharing us this topic which reminds me by my sleepy dreams. You may wonder why I called my dreams by sleepy. That is because I have many plans in my mind waiting the light to let it wake up and remove dust from it.
      I am going to concentrate in one point because Tenderness already said what I want to say why women prefer teaching.
      So, I am going to focus mostly in the case that women are not creative in producing magazines or books here in Oman. Of course there is a slight number of Omani women who are creative in their writing and they could be counted.
      First, the family and house keep the Omani women busy all the time and she scarcely finds a time to produce some creative work. I am sure married men will understand my point because their wives work very hard and return home to fond some other job to do which is taking care of their family and cleaning the house and so on. You could hardly find a man here in Oman help his wife.

      Secondly, there is no encouragement at all maybe because our society is not a creative one. We seldom find people read for the passion of reading. There is a statistic show that Omani people don't read at all. So, if there are no readers how do you think that we are going to have writers for there is no motivation push us to write. Yet, there are some great women who are creative but nobody know anything about them for they don't publish their creative works. This point leads us to the third and the final point:
      There is no a movement in Oman cares about these creative women and I really wish if there is one to encourage women to publish their fabulous works in public. I personally, know some girls who write great and marvelous poems and stories. If you just have the chance to read their works, you will really say 7ram that there works are not published in public. I have to say that some girls feel shy to publish their works because they consider their works something personal. But I am sue if there is a movement for Omani women it will be great for you will surly read some creative words.

      Sorry, for being long in my reply and I am sure that you are bored now for writing this long reply. But, words are not enough to express what I want to say in this topic.

      But, I wish if I could have the chance to achieve my dreams that are waiting me to work over them.

    • Thank you Scream, and I really wish you could achieve all you have in mind

      I will not comment on your words but rather leave it for the topic writer first to do so but I have a question in mind and is directed to you, Scream

      What do you really mean by "Movement for Omani Women", how do you imagine its presence and tasks?l


      Thank you again
      10denress

    • I call it by a movement because it remind me by Women writers movement in Europe and America..So, there was a movement and now we know many great and famous European and American writers because this movement support them and provide them their rights as writers and women..
      So, I hope if we also start a movement that can support Omani women writers and encourage them to publish their writers. There should be great motivation by this movement ..

      Maybe after some years we will find this movement as one of the important organizations here in Oman.. We hope and hope is always our link to future

    • Thanks الطائر المقهور
      for bringing up this subject, it does give some hope of a better future… given it is thought through by an Omani Male :) i

      I wish it was as simple as you put it, and as simple as each side blaming the other for its negligence, in as infinite circle, that’s why we’re not getting anywhere

      Putting it bluntly: if any Omani woman wants to be something, or do something, she could!! What could possibly stop her? She can be an engineer, a geologist, or a scientist. Universities will not reject her just because she is a woman!!i
      And if writing is her passion, publishers will not come to her door and beg her to be a professional writer; she has to dig her way out and struggle to succeed.
      Yes, no creativity, no bravery, no realization of self-worth. An (Omani) woman has to first believe in her strength, abilities and has to be strong and brave enough to face the criticism (a very harsh one, I am sure) in order to make her way to the top
      Omani women prefer being a teacher (as you’ve all mentioned), because it’s the most convenient job. Most have set their first priority as being their home and family, not their job, future or even intellect. How ambitious is a woman is when all her life and interests are what her kids ate today and how the maid is a pain in the neck??s

      Where is it possible to start an Omani-woman “movement” , when they have to intention of moving anywhere??. The initiative has to be from the bottom of the heart of every woman, who has to know that to raise the status of the Omani woman, sacrifices has to be made and a struggle has to be gone through


      A college acquaintance of mine, a very bright and active Omani female, I lost contact with her for a couple of years, and when I ran into her recently.. she was life-less. Married with two kids, and no trace of all her ambitions she once told me about. To give away her ambitions for the sake of her husband and kids, is merely sad.. she didnt HAVE to do that
      That’s the graveyard she dug herself for the brighter She that once was alive

      *sigh*

      I’ll be back

    • thanks to all who partipate and i am sorry for being late to replying. actually what i have read from your replies that most of u think women can be teacher because thet fit this job while i do belive that women can be in other jobs and can make an outstanding success.
      about puplishing, i would thank mrs. unfaithful for her reply and i share her her opinion that women at the end have the sole key to open the door for their stories and poems to be puplished. we have newspapers and magazines but where are feminene writers? ~!@q

      so where are women?

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      thanks to all who partipate and i am sorry for being late to replying. actually what i have read from your replies that most of u think women can be teacher because thet fit this job while i do belive that women can be in other jobs and can make an outstanding success.
      about puplishing, i would thank mrs. unfaithful for her reply and i share her her opinion that women at the end have the sole key to open the door for their stories and poems to be puplished. we have newspapers and magazines but where are feminene writers? ~!@q

      so where are women?

      What do you want women for? :) , anyway, I see you closing your topic
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      by confining yourself to one point or a single dimension meanwhile you had a good start shedding light on what seemed to be a good topic. I was really waiting for you to come and discuss but it looks you forgot your main topic and main issue

      Sorry I am saying that but this is me, and this is how I behave with my dear brothers and sisters

      Kind Regards
      10derness

    • الطائر المقهور
      I am not sure why you narrowed your argument down to "publishing the writings " of Omani women?????s
      I am sure Scream mentioned it as an example (a rather very simple non-critical one though)i


      There are Tons of female writers.. great ones too.. But to write a poem and have it published in a magazine or a newspaper is only the First baby-step toward achieving something bigger and stronger.

    • thank you again. mr tenderness it's all right with me. i like everyone to be clear with me and there is no need to be sorry. i just was in a hurry in responding for i am busy little bit after the begginning of my college and i dont want to narrow the topic in publishing but i was responding to one of the particpants.
      i guess our women would fit every where, and to find them hurrying to teaching is they or their families want them to be in a feminine atmosphere in a try to avid mixing with men
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      well, that means that our woman are not capable of taking their choice and their families impose their will upon them. so my quesion is : are the women her want to be teachers because of their families and the reason for not ocuppying other jobs is a social obstacle. i think we have jobs that relate to women themselves which are not occupied . we have unions of women in every region and they are active only in summer. what i know that in these unions women are taught sawing and cooking , but what about their rights and their capabilties? are they just for home affairs.

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      Girls by nature can do better than boys at schools, academically that is and it could be
      too to them spending more time at home and not much to do but study hard

      i agree totally with mr tenderness in this point and that was the essence of one of my quesions. what about jobs are they less capable than men naturally? what about mrs unfaithful's story ? doesnt this story tell us about tens like this teacher who instead of being more creative became without ambition. is marrige means the end of the road for women? tell me

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      A college acquaintance of mine, a very bright and active Omani female, I lost contact with her for a couple of years, and when I ran into her recently.. she was life-less. Married with two kids, and no trace of all her ambitions she once told me about

      mrs unfaithful, thanks for the story it refreshes my memory and reminds me of othe female teacher like your friend. it really bambozle me why such teacher became like this

      I personally, know some girls who write great and marvelous poems and stories. If you just have the chance to read their works, you will really say 7ram that there works are not published in public.


      mrs scream i have already say 7ram for the waste of women capabilties; yet women have to struggle. an expert in literature said once that if shakispear had a sister with the same brilliance at that time she would be cut off just because she is a woman. and now women enjoy good condition in the west. i think here we have a problem in trusting women which make them less confident.i am not asking our women to be westernized but to take the ambition of western women as an example.
      what i can get from what i have read that society and our idology are standing in the face of our women. i dont know maybe someone can give more ideas and enlighten us . soryy foe the misunderstanding.



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    • Well, we want to see the women who can express her rights by the massage of mind and thought not by the body logic. Answering ur question, what type of work are suitable to our women, what ever respect her humanity and femininity .In fact, the women right is not (BORTOCALA) song .it is mental view of the female where she can participate positively on the society march.