CAPMAS denies that there 13 mln spinsters in Egypt.CAIRO: Abu Bakr Abu Bakr (ä`b  bäk`ər), 573–634, 1st caliph, friend, father-in-law, and successor of Muhammad. El-Guindy, head of the Central Agency for Public
Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS CAPMAS Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (Egypt) ), denied news reports claiming there
are 13 million "spinsters" in Egypt.
He explained that this figure, which was credited to a recent study by CAPMAS about marriage and divorce in Egypt, includes the total number of males, above 18, and females, above 16, who were never married, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the 2006 study. "Spinster SPINSTER. An addition given, in legal writings, to a woman who never was married. Lovel. on Wills, 269. is a relative term which doesn't have any scientific definition [C*] the marriage age for a female varies from one society [to another] and across social, educational and economic classes," El-Guindy told the Middle East News Agency (MENA MENA Middle East & North Africa MENA Middle East News Agency (Arabic Wikalat Al-Anbaa' Al-Sharq Al-'awsat) MENA Medium-Energy Neutral Atom MENA Mammalian Enabled MENA Mission Element Need Analysis ). According to the CAPMAS study, the number of single females in the age bracket of 30--35 is 156,000, and reaches 78,000 in the 35--40 age bracket. The total number of single females above the age of 30 is 317,000, which constitutes 8.2 percent of the total number of females in this age group. The issue of spinsterhood Spinsterhood Forsyte, June jilted by her fiance, becomes an old maid. [Br. Lit.: The Forsyte Saga] Grundy, Miss prim and proper schoolteacher, continually vexed by her students’ antics. has been in the spotlight lately, with women calling for social change in the attitude towards unmarried women. An online group on Facebook, "Old Maids for Change," attracted wide media attention for bringing into the limelight limelight: see calcium oxide. limelight Early form of theatrical lighting. The incandescent calcium light invented by Thomas Drummond in 1816 was first employed in a theatre in 1837 and was widely used by the 1860s. the stigma of being an unmarried woman in a patriarchal society. The group was created by Yomna Mokhtar, a 27-year-old journalist who was inspired by the suffering of her unwed friends and colleagues. The group identifies itself as "a social movement that seeks to reverse the negative attitude towards every unmarried girl who eventually found herself forced to either get married to any man so she could get rid of the title 'old maid,' or hold onto her position, insisting to wait until she finds the right guy," the group's mission statement reads. "We are not calling for girls to boycott marriage but we refuse the idea of girls getting married under pressure from their families or the society or just to get rid of the stigma of 'old maid'," the statement continues. Another group, "Diaries of a Spinster," was created by Abeer Soliman and attracted more than 1,500 members. Daily NewsEgypt 2009 Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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