Q&A: The Da’tal and Their Attitude Toward Women
The Da’tal 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 people sometimes waste time on irrelevant questions. I, like you, think we should stay very relevant.
Therefore, I would be glad if we focused on the issue of the religious public’s attitude toward women and your suggestion that it is problematic.
So the question is:
Do you have data showing this?
For example, is it known that the divorce rate in the religious sector is significantly higher than among the secular or traditional public?
Or is it known that the religious community has more complaints about 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?
Answering these questions would count, in my opinion, 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 group of a few individual rabbis.
Please provide clear data and statistics to establish that women are not treated well by the Religious Zionist community.
For reference, here is the earlier discussion 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/