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"I wrote a book about feminist concepts and issues, and one chapter was about women and their problems at work. Me personally, as a doctor, of course I have also had problems in my work, but not like other women who are in other positions.
I am a feminist since 30 years. I wrote a lot of studies and have two books on it. One of them is about Islam and women, and the other is about feminist issues concerning Syrian women, Arabic women in general—like discrimination laws in the Syrian and Arabic worlds, also violence against women in the Arabic world (in Syria especially) and I wrote this book before the war. Also, I also discuss women at work, women in health, and women and culture.
You know, as a woman, you always have to work harder than men to prove that you are as good as men. And other things, of course, there is always harassment from your boss, and when you are strong enough to say no, he will be aggressive with you about that and always try to find the mistakes that you make. It was always like this—working hard, and the men that work with you are always aggressive because you are better, or because you are not available…there is always this kind of problem, but as a doctor I think I am a little bit protected with my position, or, my kind of job.
It is always like this in the work atmosphere.
But I can see that we as women doctors had less problems than women who are workers or nurses—nurses face many, many problems with doctors, because they try, always, always, to try have relations—yeah, they have more problems. But we as doctors, we are mostly respected by people—because the people need us, we are a little bit more protected than other women.