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Mounia Meslem Quotes

born 1961

Mounia Meslem (born in Tébessa on 24 June 1961) is an Algerian politician. Her position was Minister of National Solidarity, the Family and Women Affairs.

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Women who are married do not need a monthly wage to live, of course, as they live off their husband's salaries.

These kinds of proposals are normally put forward by fundamentalists. The idea that women should stay at home, because if she works she is doing a job that could have gone to a man.

It is easy for us to give up not only a part of our salaries but our monthly income entirely - and with pleasure.

Married women can work without receiving any kind of compensation. It's essentially being a volunteer for the state.

We women could help our country, which gave us an education and an opportunity to have a career by transferring our full pay to the treasury- it is the least we could do.

Does a minister that's supposed to look after women's affairs have nothing else to suggest? It's both shocking and worrying, because it show that no one's thinking seriously about how to solve the financial crisis.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Mounia Meslem (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.