"The revolution had proved one point: women are just equal to men," said  Ayman Oqeil, a lawyer by profession and the chairman of the Maat Centre, an NGO specialised in human rights. "Egypt’s women deserve larger space on the political stage," he added during a seminar on the empowerment of women in southern Cairo.

"The former regime did not care about women at all," said Iman Beibars, a civil society activist. "Women have played an important role in the revolution and this is why they should be rewarded appropriately after it," she added.