Reasons for depriving woman of her inheritance from the perspective of faculty members and assistant lecturers at Al-Azhar University and the role of educational institutions in overcoming them

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1 Department of Fundamentals of Education - Faculty of Education - Al-Azhar University in Cairo.

2 Sociology Department, Faculty of Humanities, Al-Azhar University, Tafna Al-Ashraf.

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The study aimed to identify the reasons for depriving woman of her inheritance from the perspective of faculty members and the assistant lecturers at Al-Azhar University, as well as a sample of women who were deprived of their inheritance, and to determine the differences of these reasons according to the variables and set a proposal for roles of educational institutions to overcome these reasons. The study used the descriptive approach through applying two tools: the questionnaire on a sample of (438) faculty members and assistant lecturers at Al-AzharUniversity, and the interview on a sample of (20) women who were deprived of their inheritance. The study indicated that: The sample members reported that the reasons mentioned in the questionnaire have a high effect the deprivation of woman's inheritance. The study also indicated that there were statistically significant differences -on the questionnaire and its axes- between the study sample members according to the gender variable, in favor of (male), and according to the place of residence variable -on the reasons that belong to woman- in favor of the Upper Egypt. The results of the interviews with deprived cases of their inheritance added reasons: customs and traditions in the Egyptian countryside, families' preference for males, woman’s demand for their inheritance is a shame. The study also recommended that educational institutions should play a set of roles to overcome these reasons.
 

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