Gender and sexual health post the Egyptian revolution

This article sheds light on Egypt as a country that is full of wonders and yet many contradictions. Women are expected to marry at a young age and yet all efforts to secure a suitable match are frowned upon. It is a mystery as to how women find suitable men to marry if all efforts are restricted by family, culture and religion. One may say that the revolution seemed to many a game-changer for Egyptian women who marched in the streets alongside men. Several female protesters were injured and many reported incidents of being groped and sexually assaulted in the attack. Nevertheless, the protest marked a day where women voiced their feelings towards a tyrant regime. It was the first large-scale protest in the history of Egypt since the 1970s. President Hosni Mubarak had ruled the country for 30 years. People took to the streets to protest poverty, negligence, unemployment, corruption and autocratic governance.