The Women’s Empowerment Unit at the College of Nursing, University of Baghdad, in cooperation with the Basic Sciences Branch, organized an in-person scientific awareness symposium entitled (Administrative violence against women and its impact on their job performance) in the museum hall in the presence of a number of college teachers and employees on Wednesday, 3/27/2024 AD.
Dr. (Bushra Ali Kadhim) and Dr. (Salwa Ghazi Turki ) lectured at the symposium. The symposium aimed to introduce the concept of violence against women and its various forms and manifestations, with a focus on administrative violence and its impact on women’s job performance.
The symposium included several topics: an introduction to violence against women and the most important global statistics on women’s exposure to this violence, while the second topic included the most important forms and types of violence to which women are exposed, while the third topic included administrative violence to which women are exposed in various institutions and its multiple aspects, forms, and causes. Leading to this type of violence, while the last topic of the symposium included the most important treatments and correct solutions to limit the spread of this type of violence against women.
The lecturers at the symposium recommended the necessity of feminist awareness, which has a fundamental role in confronting administrative violence, as women must know their human and national rights and how to defend them, and not tolerate, tolerate, or remain silent about the deprivation of these rights. The symposium also emphasized the role of conscious religious, intellectual, and political elites in creating a life based on On the values of tolerance, security and peace, and highlighting the status of women in Islam and what Islam has recommended towards women, The symposium emphasized the role of the media in creating an advanced culture towards women as an existence, a message, and a humanitarian and national role. Accordingly, there is a double responsibility to create a culture of kindness and compassion in private and public human relations. It also requires staying away from media programs whose contents deal with solving human problems and family disputes with violence, cruelty, and force. …and focusing on resolving controversial issues within the humanitarian and family environment with understanding, logic, a high scientific and ethical method, and cultural awareness of the role of women in the development process, a role in which the media, elites, and civil society institutions participate, and the necessity of holding seminars and workshops to shed light on the most impo