{"id":47,"date":"2022-09-24T21:27:10","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T21:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hoffritj\/?p=47"},"modified":"2022-09-24T21:36:07","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T21:36:07","slug":"divorce-over-text-message-a-look-at-marital-gender-roles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hoffritj\/2022\/09\/24\/divorce-over-text-message-a-look-at-marital-gender-roles\/","title":{"rendered":"Divorce Over Text Message &#8211; A Look at Marital Gender Roles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few years, a new trend has emerged in Saudi Arabia &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/now\/saudi-notify-women-divorce-text-message-153724171.html\">men divorcing their wives over text message<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The legality of divorce in such a detached manner makes marriage feel more like a contract than a declaration of love and partnership. Just like one would check their email for news alerts, married women in Saudi Arabia may simply check their phone and find an alert for a change in marital status.<\/p>\n<p>To some, marriage is now seen only as paperwork &#8211; without connection to their significant others, viewing wives as things that can simply be taken and pushed away by signing on the dotted line. This puts husbands in legally enforced marital power over their wives, and sets a precedent of dependence upon the family patriarch.<\/p>\n<p>It is painfully clear that women (in this case, particularly in Saudi Arabia) have no control over marriage. Husbands can simply divorce wives without their consent or mutual agreement. Sudden divorces leaves many women without income or homes, and entirely stranded in a society in which they have limited rights.<\/p>\n<p>From this, it can be deduced that the power imbalances between men and women is not just situational &#8211; it is legally engrained in everyday life. Children may live in situations in which their mothers can be removed from their family at any time, and wives may be under constant stress to keep their husbands from leaving whenever they would like, not to mention the worries of supporting oneself when the right for women to drive was only approved a few years ago.<\/p>\n<p>This highlights the fact that while women press for more independence and rights, they are still heavily reliant upon those that they are fighting against. Many women would like to be more empowered, but can only do so with resources from men.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few years, a new trend has emerged in Saudi Arabia &#8211; men divorcing their wives over text message. The legality of divorce in such a detached manner makes marriage feel more like a contract than a declaration of love and partnership. Just like one would check their email for news alerts, married [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4949,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hoffritj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hoffritj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hoffritj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hoffritj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4949"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hoffritj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hoffritj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hoffritj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hoffritj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hoffritj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}