Educated Elites and their Vision of the 2022 Constitutional Amendments among Youth and Women in Jordanian Society: A Field Study

Abstract

The aim of the study is to examine the vision of the educated elites in Jordanian society for the constitutional amendments that were made in 2022 to the Constitution of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the extent of the repercussions of these amendments on both youth and women in Jordanian society, to meet and achieve the ambitions and aspirations of the Jordanian people with all its components in the field of empowering these target groups from the amendments, and the methods were from the respondents' point of view. The results were the presence of statistically significant differences at the significance level (a = 0.05) attributed to the effect of the party participation variable, as the value of (f) reached (3.127) and statistical significance (.048), and there were no statistically significant differences at the significance level (a = 0.05) attributed to the effect of: gender, age, educational level, monthly income, place of residence. As for the extent to which the constitutional amendments constitute a starting point for social and economic reform for youth and women, the study showed the existence of statistically significant differences (a=0.05) attributed to the effect of the party participation variable, where the value reached (3.287) with statistical significance (.041). The study concluded that these constitutional amendments formed a basis for social and economic reform for youth and women in Jordanian society and achieved some of the people's ambitions and aspirations in this regard, and the Jordanian people look forward to more reforms that lead to achieving the desired ambitions.