Reforming the Moroccan Personal Status Code: A Revolution for Whom?

摘要

This article addresses the reform of the Moroccan Personal Status Code and its shortcomings. It argues that despite the success of the reform campaign, a number of problems prevent the new Family Code from having a proper and lasting effect on Moroccan society. The article explores these issues, which are of a legal as well as a social nature, and contends that in order for the reformed Code to be fully implemented and gender equality to be instituted in all spheres of public and private life, an all-encompassing economic and educational reform has to go hand in hand with social changes.