"Women’s rights have yet to become an issue that moves the general public. The number of female candidates elected is of less interest to many women than how they will feed their children, whether they can get them to a clinic, or whether they will be able to send them to school. Those clamouring for change in Egypt and Tunisia today are mostly NGO workers, campaigners, lawyers, academics and politicians. But to their voices have been added those of the women protesters who came out in their tens of thousands and demanded an end to the old way of life."
