Its family code, known as the Moudawana, was revised in 2004 to give far greater rights to women (including equal status in the household, the power to initiate divorces and the right to inherit equally).
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So could men and women ever enjoy equal status in the workforce?
The commission stresses that all members of the House of Commons, whether elected from constituencies or as top-up members, should have equal status in Westminster.
Welsh and English formally have equal status in the new Assembly, and some members, particularly those belonging to Plaid Cymru, the nationalist party, insist on speaking it.
Four young Europeans, selected through an open EU competition, were in the delegation with equal status alongside the politicians.
The amendment would give mental illness equal status with physical illness in the government's promotion of a comprehensive health service.
It may also offer India the carrot of equal status as a partner in the programme, alongside the four European nations.
Swiss Re's Mr Singh notes that insurers have a respect for risk that is reflected in the status of the chief risk officer, who is treated as an equal partner in senior management.
Norms and values in most societies are still far from being gender neutral and the status of women in general is not yet equal to that of men.
As they did with other issues, the Meiji modernizers studied European institutions - in which both male and female descendants are usually of equal royal status.
Councils signed the "single status agreement" in 1997, committing local authorities to delivering equal pay for women workers where their wages had fallen behind the men.
"We want to ensure that farmers and growers in the region have access to a fair share of water resources and enjoy equal status with other users, given their vital role as producers, " he said.
In the last century of so, the social and economic status of women has changed, they have come to achieve a more equal situation with men in most modern societies.
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