@article{article_1508649, title={One Hundred Years of Palestinian Women’s Struggle (1922-2022)}, journal={Akdeniz Kadın Çalışmaları ve Toplumsal Cinsiyet Dergisi}, volume={8}, pages={332–357}, year={2025}, DOI={10.33708/ktc.1508649}, author={Menawı, Mariam}, keywords={Keywords: Palestinian Woman Struggle, Empowerment, Quota, Feminist Movement}, abstract={The Palestinian women movement has been subjected to many transformations in its components and activities due to the different circumstances the Palestinian society has been undergoing. The research uses the historical method in narrating the activity and struggle of Palestinian women over a hundred years, divided based on the importance of the sequence of events as seen by the writer. Palestinian women role during the British Occupation (1922-1948) was struggles and logistic; it resisted the colonial forces, supported the liberators, established societies for food supplies and held several meetings to exchange views about the then-Palestinian status quo. Some researchers, however, limited the role of the Palestinian women movement to resistance solely, denying their share in the political process. In the 1948 War, the women movement activity immersed in education and finding a job, especially after losing the land for the Israeli occupiers, so the necessity of searching for another living resource became dire. The refugee schools were a subordinate factor to providing education in that period. In the 1960s, the Palestinian women political participation improved after establishing The Palestinian Women Public Union (1965). After the Oslo Agreement (1993), the Palestinian Authority (PA) integrated the women movements in its apparatus. Such a policy negatively affected the women movement roles and activities, because most of the women activities became under the (PA) control. Since the last legislative election (2006) until now, the function of the women movements has been improving, but not as good as, they should be, the number of the women ministers has increased. In general, though, the Palestinian women have held ministerial levels excluding the sovereign ministries as the foreign and interior ones. Six ministers in 2012: the first head of the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics in 2011, first female governor of Ramallah and Al Bireh 2010, and the first member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization in 2009. Even though there is an absentee in equal laws that hinder the development and independence of woman’s lives and society in Palestine. In addition, there is a need to increase her roles more so that the Palestinian woman can be influential player in her society so that she can issue decisions that affect her life, protect her interests, and be given the opportunity to take part in the liberation process along with her male counterpart.}, number={1}, publisher={Nurşen ADAK}