The Integrated Role of Women: Towards a Balanced and Prosperous Society (Iraqi Testimony from the Heart of Reality)

The Iraqi woman is not just a partner in life, but its pillar. If she collapses, everything collapses.
She is the one who stood in wars, raised in absence, and taught from the rubble.
Who was distributing bread at dawn in the alleys of Baghdad?
Who taught generations in the schools of the South despite the siege?
Who has persevered through the disasters of war, displacement, and betrayal, and emerged stronger than before? We are not talking about a "complementary" role, but rather an essential, foundational role that cannot be ignored.

In every Iraqi home, there is a patient mother who raised a successful man.
And a partner wife who kept the family together through all the storms,
And an educated daughter, leading an entire family's dream toward a new future. Do we remember what Iraqi women were like in the sixties and seventies?
Academics, engineers, doctors, judges.
They were not only present, but influential.

Balqis Sharaara in architecture, Naziha Al-Dulaimi in politics,
Even in the struggle, names are unforgettable. But where are we today?
What made women's representation a mere political decoration?
Why has competence become an overlooked slogan amid the simmering power quotas? Iraqi women are still there. They work, they dream, they persevere, they struggle.
But society still fails her over and over again:
When her voice is excluded from decision-making positions,
When the family's honor is tied to its body, not its mind,
When her ambition is besieged by "shame" and "unacceptable," are you ready for a truly prosperous society?
Start empowering Iraqi women as they deserve, not as they are allowed.
Provide her with security, education, opportunity, and confidence.
Ask yourselves: How many nations are built on one leg? Iraq will not rise until Iraqi women fully regain their role.
Not by anyone's favor, but purely by merit.

Walid Al-Janabi