• Women comprise 49.1% (721,700) of the total Arab population in Israel. Among Jews,

women comprise 50.7% of the population. (2.8 million, 2008 figures).

• Scholars agree that Arab women in Israel are doubly marginalized: first, as women in a

predominantly patriarchal Arab society, where men are perceived as the decision-makers

and women as inferior and ideally subservient, and second, as part of an Arab minority in a

Jewish nation state.

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