WATCH: Haredi women demand their rights

What is the state of women's rights in ultra-Orthodox society? • Could women represent haredi parties in the Knesset? • Activist and filmmaker Esty Shushan speaks with editor Steve Ganot about her haredi feminist journey.

Esty Shushan was, by her own description, a typical ultra-Orthodox woman -- daughter of a rabbi, sister to 11 siblings, and graduate of a "prestigious" Bnei Brak seminary where the girls were expected to marry early and support their own large families and full-time Torah-learning husbands.

But in 2012, frustrated by demands for increasingly strict standards of modest dress, attempts to exclude women from the public sphere, and lack of representation for women in the haredi parties, Shushan embarked on a new path. She and a group of friends launched a campaign urging haredi women not to vote for parties that present all-male electoral slates.

Since then, Shushan has become a leader in a growing movement of haredi feminism, as well as a groundbreaking filmmaker.

In this edition of Israel Hayom Insider, Shushan speaks with Israel Hayom Opinion Editor Steve Ganot about her journey.

Anchor: Steve Ganot. Camera: Doron Persaud. Makeup: Omay Shitrit.

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