A decade of conflict is evolving traditional values towards gender roles as death, injury, emigration and disappearance into President Bashar al-Assad’s notorious jails have deprived tens of thousands of families of their male earners.
Women are being thrust into the role of the provider in a way few had experienced previously.
The AlJazeera article cites a report by CARE, which found that while only 4 percent of Syrian families were headed by women before 2011, that figure has now risen to 22 percent.