Women's rights between law and tribal custom A sociological comparison of the Iraqi situation

Abstract

The structure of Iraqi society is characterized as a tribal
structure dominated by social customs and clan traditions, which
impose, with its inherited culture, a masculine authority based on a
view of inferiority. Women are then a secondary entity as a result of
erroneous interpretations of some religious texts that made them
impose distinct and different rights between men and women, and at
the same time made women helpless and marginalized due to the tide.
Tribalism sweeps away the status and role of women in Iraqi society.
In the face of this situation, it was necessary to resort to the law as an
effective tool that seeks justice and equality and sees all men and
women as citizens in one society with integrated rights and duties.