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In Kuwait women are not treated as equally and fairly as the men. They go through all sorts of discrimination throughout the country. They are discriminated on their employment and other basic laws that American women have.

Below are some of the things that women are discriminated against in Kuwait


 * Laws that stop them from moving on in their career
 * Women can work if the husbands agree with it
 * Men can take their wife's salary
 * No women can work after 8pm
 * Women can't choose who they can marry
 * They have little political and civil rights
 * They can't pass their nationality on to their kids and partner
 * They cannot travel without their husband's permission

Laws are also different based on if you are classified as a Sunni or a Shia.

The majority of the country follows the Sunni family law while the Shia follow their own family law. The Sunni and the Shia both believe in the same things but one is more strict than the other and promote harder rules to follow.


 * Kuwait women marry at the age of 15
 * Women don't have custody of their children when married
 * No rights protecting women from physical violence
 * Must have permission from husband to get passport

Throughout the years the Kuwait government has been working hard to slim down on women discrimination. Kuwait women say that it is getting better and they have more freedom. Some things that they can do are they have more freedom in the workplace and the government.


 * They can now get there passports without the consent of their husbands
 * They are granted some political rights
 * Trying to eliminate it from the work place

Discrimination of women