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Gender equality

المساواة الجندرية

Position on women's rights, gender roles in public life, family law (personal status, divorce, custody, inheritance), and political representation. Distinct from the broader modernization axis: a party can be tech-modernizing and gender-conservative.

Scoring rubric

How positions are calibrated on this axis. The conventions guide the scorer; anchored examples show how known MENA actors land at -10, -5, 0, +5, +10.

Score the explicit gender-policy position: women's political participation, personal-status law reform, dress-code policy, employment equality. Religious framings score on the gender-outcome they advocate, not on the framing itself. If the text does not engage gender, return null with reason.

  • -10
    Total restriction on women in public life; rejection of any role beyond household.
  • -5
    Public participation restricted; family law strongly tilted to male prerogative.
  • +0
    Mixed signals; status quo with selective reforms.
  • +5
    Active equality push in public life, personal-status reform in progress.
  • +10
    Full legal equality; quotas; affirmative-action language explicit in platform.
Parties scored
22
Mean
-2.95
Median
-6.25
Std dev
5.97
Range
-9.0 → 8.0

Ranking

All parties scored on this axis, sorted from most Gender equality to most Patriarchal traditionalism.

Patriarchal traditionalism ← → Gender equality

-10-5+0+5+10
  1. 1 The Democrats IL
    +8.0
  2. 2 Hadash IL
    +8.0
  3. 3 Israeli Labor Party IL
    +7.5
  4. 4 New Hope IL
    +5.0
  5. 5 Fatah PS
    +2.0
  6. 6 Likud IL
    +2.0
  7. 7 Lebanese Forces LB
    +1.5
  8. 8 Free Patriotic Movement LB
    +1.0
  9. 9 Ennahda TN
    -2.0
  10. 10 Justice and Development Party MA
    -6.0
  11. 11 Otzma Yehudit IL
    -6.0
  12. 12 Freedom and Justice Party EG
    -6.5
  13. 13 Hezbollah LB
    -6.5
  14. 14 Religious Zionism Party IL
    -7.0
  15. 15 Shas IL
    -7.5
  16. 16 Hayat Tahrir al-Sham SY
    -7.5
  17. 17 Noam IL
    -8.0
  18. 18 Hamas PS
    -8.0
  19. 19 Ansar Allah (Houthis) YE
    -8.5
  20. 20 Nour Party EG
    -8.5
  21. 21 Islamic Salvation Front DZ
    -9.0
  22. 22 United Torah Judaism IL
    -9.0

Score distribution

Histogram of scores across all 22 parties. Mean -2.95, median -6.25, σ 5.97. Multi-modal distributions point to genuine cleavages on this axis; unimodal narrow ones to consensus.

-9: 2 parties 2 -8: 4 parties 4 -7: 3 parties 3 -6: 4 parties 4 -2: 1 party +1: 1 party +2: 3 parties 3 +5: 1 party +8: 3 parties 3 −10 0 +10

Patriarchal traditionalism Gender equality

By country

Mean score per country.

  • Israel 10 parties
    -0.70
  • Lebanon 3 parties
    -1.33
  • Tunisia 1 party
    -2.00
  • Palestine 2 parties
    -3.00
  • Morocco 1 party
    -6.00
  • Syria 1 party
    -7.50
  • Egypt 2 parties
    -7.50
  • Yemen 1 party
    -8.50
  • Algeria 1 party
    -9.00

Cross-axis correlations

How parties' scores on this axis covary with their scores on each other axis. Pearson r runs from −1 (perfect inverse) to +1 (perfect identity); 0 means independent. Computed across all parties scored on both axes (n shown per row). Strong correlations expose which axes are really measuring the same cleavage in the data; near-zero values are the ones with the most additional explanatory power.

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