The reality of the political participation of Jordanian women since 1989

Abstract

Jordanian society has witnessed in the past decades, political transformations and social and economic was the most prominent of increasing women's participation in political life, but the participation of Jordanian women were minimal compared with the participation of men, shows the weakness of women's representation in political life through the weakness of their representation in parliaments, political parties and others, despite encourage the Constitution and the law on the exercise of women's political rights, but many challenges what is political, and some of the other on social and cultural prevailing conditions in the Jordanian society, in addition to the economic and psychological obstacles that impede the participation of the The birth of women in political life.