Q&A: The Dati-Leumi and Their Attitude Toward Women
The Dati-Leumi and Their Attitude Toward Women
Question
Following another discussion in which you implied that there is a problematic attitude toward women in the Religious Zionist community (link below) — I very much agreed with your complaint that sometimes time is wasted on irrelevant questions. Like you, I think we should focus on what is truly relevant.
Therefore, I would be glad if we could focus on the issue of the religious public’s attitude toward women, and on your suggestion that there is something problematic there.
So my question is this:
Do you have data showing this?
For example, is it known that the divorce rate in the religious sector is significantly higher than in the secular or traditional public?
Or is it known that in the religious community there are more complaints involving battered women, or, God forbid, do you know of more women being murdered in that community?
Do you know of any clear data showing that in the religious community there are necessarily more women who suffer sexual assault?
Any other relevant data?
In my opinion, answering these questions would count as a substantive discussion, rather than general (and meaningless) statements like “they treat women badly.”
What is that based on?
And please, no isolated incidents that prove nothing, like the letter sent 15 years ago by a small group of individual rabbis.
Please provide clear data and statistics to establish that women are not treated well by the Religious Zionist public.
For reference, for those interested:
https://mikyab.net/%D7%A9%D7%95%D7%AA/%d7%94%d7%93%d7%aa%d7%99%d7%99%d7%9d-%d7%95%d7%94%d7%97%d7%a8%d7%93%d7%99%d7%9d-%d7%91%d7%98%d7%95%D7%A4-%D7%A9%D7%9C-%D7%94%D7%94%D7%AA%D7%A0%D7%93%D7%91%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%95%D7%94%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%A1/