Cairo: Suicide and the Single Educated Girl…………..
“CAIRO- A university professor committed suicide last month in 6th October City on the outskirts of Cairo because she reached 40 without being married, local media reported. Her death came at the same time the movie Two Girls From Egypt, about the problems of being “aness”, or a spinster, was released……. This month, Egypt’s National Centre for Toxins issued a report saying that about 2,700 Egyptian females tried to commit suicide last year because of spinsterhood. Azza Korayem, a professor at the National Center for Sociological and Criminological Research, said there was a growing trend among Egyptian women to achieve financial independence, which means that work becomes a priority and sometimes results in their missing out on marriaige. Traditionally men looking for a wife prefer women under 30 who are not so independent, she said..…..”
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