Yemeni women

             Impact of the unification on Yemeni Women
             Current Yemen is the unification of two countries witch had different and conflicting attitudes towards women. It is beyond the scope of this paper to draw any descriptive conclusions about the effect of unification on women in Yemen. However this paper will make conclusions based on a general overview of the impact of unification on women in Yemen.
             Before making any suggestions, implications or judgements about any aspect of a developing country the history of that developing country must be uncovered. Discovering the history also gives invaluable insight on why the situation is as it stands and as a result what can be realistically done to improve the situation.
             In the late 1960s, the British withdrew from the south of Yemen and the country's economy was on the verge of ruin. The new People's Republic of South Yemen, which came into being on 30 November 1967, relied heavily on economic support from Communist countries. In 1970 the republic's name was changed to the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen. Mutual distrust between the two Yemeni countries led to a series of short border wars in 1972, 1978 and 1979. Under Ali Abdullah Salah in the late seventies/early eighties, the stability of the Yemen Arab Republic steadily improved. A constitution had been drafted by the end of 1981 in order to implement a merger between the two states. On May 22 1990 that the merger was made official. The new country was named the Republic of Yemen.
             The Republic of Yemen is located at the bottom of the Arabian Peninsula(see map). Up until 1990 Yemen was split into two countries with different political ideologies. The socialist People's Democratic Republic of Yemen(PDRY) and the traditional Yemen Arab Republic(YAR). A basic stress exists between the legacies of the two countries(n1). The socialist parties wanted to continue to increase the legal rights for women, but the Islamist parties w...

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