ABSTRACT
For the burgeoning Tunisian women's rights movement, education would become an important cause in its quest for greater gender balance. In 1978, a group of young women representing a cross-section of social classes, including recent university graduates and students, met at Club Tahar Haddad in the center of the Tunis medina and decided to react and defend their "threatened freedoms". By the 1980s, the sociopolitical landscape in Tunisia came under fire, and certain political groups appeared to challenge the Code of Personal Status (CSP) and the State's modernization plan, thereby putting at risk any women's legal gains and achievements. Through the 1980s, a growing tension between the State and autonomous women's organizations and their supporters became palpable. Tunisian feminists and feminist organizations soon discovered that gender inequality with regard to inheritance law was perhaps the most difficult hurdle to resolve. The Qur'an prescribes that a daughter's share of inheritance is only half that of her brother's.
