The Lebanese legislation makes no difference between male and female worker.
>>Article 26 of the labor law specify that It is prohibited for the employer to discriminate on account of sex between working men and women concerning the type of work, the amount of salary, employment, promotion, upgrading .
>>Article 8 of preliminary previsions of the same law notifies: The provisions of the present law apply to all employers and salaried persons whether of commercial or of industrial character, of Lebanese or foreign nationality, public or private .
>>Yet the Lebanese constitution in her seventh article claims equality between all Lebanese before the law, and gives in further articles the rights to all Lebanese as equal, in education, politic and civil rights.
However, the legislation is not very clear concerning the regulation and application when it comes to women rights and facts are very different.
Due to the perseverance of some active associations promoting for womens rights, a lot has been done in the late years in many fields.In 1953, decree n37 establishes the political rights of women. Thus, Women got the right to elect and be elected.
>>In 1994, the terrestrial trade law has amended to put women and men on an equal footing regarding the establishment and running of their own business.
>>Married women are no longer required to obtain the consent of their husbands to be able to start their own business, or to be involved in a trading business.
>>The legislative decree n304 abrogated the ancient code of commerce concerning trading and changes the medieval status of married woman , and so far, she has full legal capacity to exercise trades and perform trade acts, to be a partner in a joint liability partnership or an active partner in a limited partnership.
>>Women are no longer required to have the permission of their husbands in order to be able to conclude insurance contracts since the amendment of the Law n483 in 1995.
>>A legislative decree, amended in 2001, regulates conditions of employment of persons in the public sector. The Decree does not discriminate against women in the right to work and to employment opportunities. It acknowledges and guarantees the right to equal remuneration for work of equal value for female and male workers and enable female employees to obtain equal benefits and privileges as their male colleagues.
Still the partaking of women in high posts very feeble and equality concerning salaries and promoting needs to be reviewed.
