Al-Zahraa Network for the Development of Women and the Family will submit their demands to the new prime minister to improve women’s working conditions in Morocco.

Morocco- Morocco is one of the countries having the lowest rates of female labor force participation in the world. Moroccan women roll up their sleeves to change this. Al-Zahraa Network for the Development of Women and the Family, a group of women's associations independent of each other, held a forum on October 9. After holding the forum, the network called on the new government to improve women’s working conditions in the county.

They will submit their demands to the prime minister

During the forum, the women highlighted that women should have the right to breastfeeding during working hours and that they should have a lactation room at the workplace. After holding the forum, the women prepared a document including their demands and they will submit this document to Aziz Akhannouch, who became the new prime minister of Morocco on October 7.

The women have demanded in the document that women should have maternity leave for 18 weeks after giving birth and that they should receive their normal wages. The women have also demanded that working women should be allowed to continue breastfeeding for at least two years.