Gender roles in Morocco
Gender roles seem to be very much imposed in Morocco. Moroccan culture is heavily, if not mainly, influenced by Islam. Islamic culture says that men provide everything in exchange for their wives’ total support. This system was not designed to be one of subservience by women, but powerful and/or loud men have bastardized the equal give and take that it was meant to be. For generations women have been put down and silenced and abused. They couldn’t have their own money or land or home or family or identity without a husband or a father, and to the rest of the world that is how they are and have always been. However, on our very first tour in Casablanca, our guide educated us on how far Morocco has come in the fight for women’s autonomy. She said it was thanks to their current king Mohammed VI. He has been reigning since 1999, and is beloved country-wide. King Mohammed VI has made known his stance on wom...