Her Highness Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak, Chairwoman of the General Women's Union, President of the Supreme Council for Motherhood and Childhood, Supreme Chairwoman of the Family Development Foundation, "Mother of the Nation", is considered the pioneer of the women's movement in the UAE and is credited with establishing the General Women's Union. Her approach in the field of women's work is characterized by balance. Between the pursuit of openness to the spirit of the times and the preservation of Arab originality and Islamic traditions, in the belief of Her Highness that preserving cultural privacy is the only way to achieve the desired progress.
women's work in the Emirates began on February 8, 1973, that is, less than two years after the establishment of the federation, when the Abu Dhabi Women's Development Association was established to be the first women's gathering in the Emirates. All women's associations in the country.
The vision of the wise leadership supporting Emirati women and their belief in the importance of their role as a major partner in development and shaping the future resulted in the UAE achieving a prominent position in international reports and global competitiveness indicators concerned with women’s empowerment and gender balance, as it ranked first in the Arab world, and eleventh globally, in the “Balance Index”. Gender 2022”, issued by the United Nations Development Programme, and the countries of the Middle East and North Africa region topped for the third year in a row, in the “Women, Business and the Law 2023 Report”, issued by the World Bank, which monitors the efforts of governments around the world with regard to the development of laws And legislation aimed at protecting and empowering women economically, and the UAE also topped the Arab countries in the "Gender Gap Report 2022", issued by the World Economic Forum.
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