Constitutional culture, citizenship, and the political participation of Algerian women

Abstract

Since independence, Algeria has striven to achieve equality between men and women in terms of rights and duties, and the efforts of the State have been manifested politically throughout the whole international agreements signed and all the national laws brought within the framework of the completion of the right of the woman to take part in the political life as positive actor of the society. However, despite Algeria's progress in enacting and adopting laws to achieve this goal - in which Algeria has excelled and pioneered unlike many Arab countries - the reality of Algerian women's participation is still lagging behind. This delay, which has many interpretations, but it has been unanimously recognized that this problem in the search for the role played by women is due to the absence of the elements of citizenship (positive citizenship) based on knowledge and understanding of rights and duties with a degree of awareness that pushes all components of society to participate in the political process at its various levels. On the other hand, the nature of Algerian society, dominated by a negative and conscious vision of its irresponsibility in the face of knowledge of the constitution and the judicial system, and of acquiring a constitutional and political culture allowing it to build its positions and its opinions and to define its orientations and its behavior in political life.