High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Women in Iraq at the beginning of the 21st century are immersed in social upheaval. Their social status is affected by many factors: wars (most recently the Iraq War), sectarian religious conflict, debates concerning Islamic law and Iraq`s Constitution, cultural traditions, and modern secularism. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi women are widowed as a result of a series of wars and internal conflicts. Women`s rights organizations struggle against harassment and intimidation while they work to promote improvements to women`s status in the law, in education, the workplace, and many other spheres of Iraqi life.