Palestinian neighborhood committees

(Section 10B) Palestinian women on the neighborhood committees go into towns and visit women house by house and hear their personal struggles and figure out ways they might be resolved. After deciding what they need to do so, whether it be to reach a dentist or find a literacy program, food; they cooperate within the organization, collect money and focus on training these women in leadership. Now my question is, could this lead to a significant change in the way femininity and masculinity play out within the Palestinian nation? Curiously, I read up on the committee from this website: http://www.sonomacountyfreepress.com/palestine/women2.html

Most Palestinian women struggle to be nationalistic when their society has a centralized masculine control. It's not simply "culture imperialism" and western values trying to surface it's way to national liberalism, but Palestinian feminists are fully aware of the oppression and backwards patriarchy occurring. They wish to keep spreading the word of the social problems Palestinian women's face.Women in some communities with these committees are determined to press forward to set a solid foundation for women's rights in the future of the state. Here are a few important particular points they have addressed:

"1. a specific right to education for women and girls, especially in villages where there are not enough schools and boys have priority for the few spaces;
2. broader civil rights, for example the right to keep her job after giving birth. Now, she automatically loses her job when she has a baby. If she has children and gets a divorce, she cannot find a job to support herself, let alone children;
3. divorce laws which give women the right to initiate a divorce, and to retain custody of children as well."

I believe a world where everyone has an equal chance to be educated could bring a lot of peace and awareness. These social happenings have come a long way in some nations, and not so much in others like Palestine, but there's no doubt that action will be taken until there is change. After more generations have come accustomed and informed to the actual equality between genders, and can see things from a more humanistic perspective, there will be a slow but surely change in this extremely masculine controlled nation. It's been a bumpy road, but the help  these "underground" committees are currently providing is righteous, and so necessary to a change in the way gender is viewed in this nation, and my hope is that what they are fighting for goes as far as they imagined.