ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses changes in social gender relations in Morocco in a context marked by tension between a logic of social and political democratisation of the status of Moroccan women and a logic of reproduction of the traditional division of gender roles. This contradictory evolution is embodied in two still unfinished processes: the political opening up that Morocco has experienced since the 1990s and the social progress made in health and women’s access to education. The authors wish to highlight that the current reforms are inseparable from religious considerations, the king’s action being primarily established as “Commander of the Faithful”.
