All of this comes at a time of greater political openness and democratization: the first ever socialist government in 1998, a younger and more open King – described by democrats of both sexes of Morocco’s “first feminist” – who took the throne in 1999, and a quota system that brought 35 women into the Parliament in 2002. This Parliament enacted a new Family Law in 2004 that mandates full equality between men and women as “head of household,” full authority for state courts in matters of divorce, creation of special family courts, and the possibility of maternal custody in the event of divorce.
这一切都发生于一个政治开放度更高和更加民主化的时代。1998年第一次组建的社会党政府、一个更加年轻和开放的国王（这是摩洛哥“第一代女权主义者”中男女民主党人对他的描述）于1999年登基、一种定额分配制度使得35名妇女在2002年进入议会。2004年该届议会颁布新的家庭法规定男女完全平等，都是“一家之主”；国家法院全权处理离婚案件；成立一个专门的家庭法院；允许在离婚时由母亲监护孩子。