(1755)THE UAE PUBLIC OPINION TOWARDS WOMEN POLITICALENABLING: AN ANALYTICAL STUDY OF THE EXPERIENCE OFWOMEN’S MEMBERSHIP IN THE FEDERAL NATIONAL COUNCILOF UAE

摘要

Women's studies found that females’ percent at the highest levels of national and internationaldecision-making has not really changed significantly for long time. Inequality between women andmen in almost all positions of decision- making still persists. U.A.E women recently had the right to bea member of U.A.E parliament. This study aims to investigate the United Arab Emirates' publicopinion towards women political participation in general and how U.A.E women themselves look to thewomen representation in parliament. Do U.A.E women think that women parliamentarians will impacteffectively on women issues at U.A.E society. The study also aims to investigate the role of U.A.E.women parliamentarians and the difficulties that these women face in the parliament. It also aims toinvestigate the role of UAE media in introducing parliamentarian women to the UAE society as mediaconsidered an important medium to convey opinions and express society issues in general.This study has main questions as following:1- What was the opinion of UAE elite people towards UAE women political participation?2- How public opinion evaluate UAE women political participation?3- What was the role of the Mass Media in creating public opinion toward UAE women politicalparticipation?This study is important because of: first, that women political participation is new phenomenon at UAEsociety. Second, this study will investigate the UAE public opinion towards UAE women politicalparticipation in order to analyze and evaluate it.This is a descriptive study using social survey method in order to understand the phenomenon. It alsobelongs to public opinion survey which concerns the social issues. Three different questionnaireshave been designed to help researchers conduct the study as following: Public's survey, femaleparliamentarians’ interviews and elites' survey (educated people such as UAE university faculty).