Moroccan feminists endeavour to promote women's empowerment through education, awareness, and knowledge of new legal rights; they also disseminate information about the new family code and the new labour code through their NGOs and community-based groups. Women's activism has significantly contributed to democracy in Moroccan society due to its greater social involvement in social and political affairs and due to the proliferation of women's associations, and to their access to the media. Women's activism is essential to modernisation and democracy, for it is the women's movement that has opened space for civil society and for democratic culture. Women's movement has also raised the awareness of the authorities that women can play a significant role in all walks of life, including in the religious domain. The phenomenon of the Murshidat is a pioneering step taken by the government to promote a moderate Islam and to fight Islamist extremism.
Female Preachers; Murshidat; Morocco; Islam