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Reasons for the Lack of Women’s Participation in Pakistan’s Workforce
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (3): 99–102.
Published: 01 November 2007
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in Pakistan’s Workforce
Fahd Ali Raza
Iqra University, Karachi
INTRODUCTION
Pakistan has come a long way since 1947. The progress made in terms
of industrialization and electronics has only been outdone by military
research. However...
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Gender and Nation Building in Qatar: Qatari Women Negotiate Modernity
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 344–366.
Published: 01 November 2019
... for participation in the workforce and higher education. The study, derived from fifteen qualitative interviews with Qatari women aged twenty-six to fifty-six, unearths certain trends in participant views on gender roles, modern development, and tradition. The participants express satisfaction with and a desire...
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Militant Women of a Fragile Nation by Malek Abisaab
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (2): 108–110.
Published: 01 July 2012
... enterprises and Abisaab’s
interest is mainly in its female employees, who consistently comprised
over 40 percent of the workforce and were the most proactively “radical”
in their resistance to corporate policies and their demands for change
(xix). He examines the ways in which these women...
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Where are the Men? Here are the Men and the Women!: Surveillance, Gender, and Strikes in Egyptian Textile Factories
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (3): 28–53.
Published: 01 November 2013
... force, they only employ 5 percent
of Egypt’s female workforce, compared to 20 percent in the education
sector, for instance. However, from 1998 to 2006, female labor in the
industrial sector increased by 5.1 percent even though recruitment was
declining in this field. This figure...
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From Café Culture to Tweets: The Development of Saudi Arabia’s Public Sphere and Women’s Empowerment
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (2): 320–328.
Published: 01 July 2022
... these topics (Almansour and Kempner 2016 ). Although Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 has implemented a number of measures to encourage women to join the workforce, and although Najia Saquib, Priyanka Aggarwal, and Saima Rashid (2016) stressed the importance of measures such as flexible working hours...
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In the Shadows of Family Life: Toward a History of Domestic Service in Lebanon
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (3): 74–101.
Published: 01 November 2009
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education and workforce participation of women, but because of an in-
creasing reluctance of Lebanese women to undertake such menial work
in households other than their own, as well as a greater ideological (or
perhaps emotional) comfort for employers to draw on non-Arab foreign-
ers who were...
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Orientalism without Power?: Chinese Female Ob-Gyns in Rural Algeria and Morocco in the Post-Mao Era
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 105–133.
Published: 01 March 2022
... practice of modern biomedicine with respect to pregnancy and childbirth, which they considered a result of the indifference of the governments to population control and an institutional failure to provide a sufficient health workforce and reproductive-health facilities. Chinese doctors have been...
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Women, Museums, and the Public Sphere
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (2): 115–136.
Published: 01 July 2006
... personnel taking advantage of
the many opportunities available? If so, how successful are they? If not,
how can they be encouraged to do so?
118 JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES
MUSEUMS AND THE WORKFORCE
According to a 2004 report by l’Organization Arabe du Travail...
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Educated, Professional Women in Morocco and Women of Moroccan Origin in France: Asserting a New Public and Private Identity
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (3): 48–70.
Published: 01 November 2006
... understanding of
women’s private roles and, by extension, public roles (1982:xi).
With more and more women entering the formal, documented
workforce and playing a substantial role as wage earners in the family, a
fundamental shift in the division of labor is already taking place...
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Made in Egypt: Gendered Identity and Aspiration on the Globalized Shop Floor
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (2): 226–228.
Published: 01 July 2019
... Studies 2019 This book is an ethnographic study of the economic activities of women workers at an export-oriented garment manufacturing firm located within Port Said’s Export Processing Zone. With its workforce of about 450 employees, almost half of them female, this firm is a good case to discuss...
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Al-ʿUcha : A Women Farmworkers’ Strategy for Gendering Workers’ Rights in Southern Morocco
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (1): 112–121.
Published: 01 March 2023
..., making labor increasingly “uncertain, unpredictable and risky from the point of view of the worker” (Kalleberg 2009 : 2). Moreover, this ongoing restructuring of the agrifood sector through the flexibilization of labor and the creation of a temporary, seasonal, and informal workforce that can...
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Palestinian Working Women in Israel: National Oppression and Social Restraints
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (2): 78–101.
Published: 01 July 2012
... on the economic participation of
Palestinian women in the region? How do state policies limit employ-
ment participation? How does women’s participation in the workforce
influence social and political activities and the division of labor inside
the home? And finally, what are the possible scenarios...
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Industrial Sexuality: Gender, Urbanization, and Social Transformation in Egypt
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (2): 221–223.
Published: 01 July 2018
... illegalized prostitution. The government and the MSWC advocated chastity as a means of promoting a healthy workforce, evading responsibility for unsafe factory work conditions that caused high rates of worker injuries and substandard housing that caused a tuberculosis epidemic. Hammad’s book illuminates...
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Economic Citizenship: Neoliberal Paradoxes of Empowerment
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (1): 66–68.
Published: 01 March 2020
... of recipients. Indeed, one limitation of the book is the exclusion of Israel’s migrant workers, refugees, and commuters from the Palestine Authority in the Israeli economy. Although they are acknowledged as central to the polarization of the Israeli workforce, Saʾar posits that they are not the regular target...
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Revolutionary Womanhood: Feminisms, Modernity, and the State in Nasser’s Egypt by Laura Bier
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2014) 10 (2): 152–155.
Published: 01 July 2014
... in the form of male authority figures could
and often did trump the patriarchal state through controlling women’s
work and broader movements.
Bier astutely observes that debate about women and work during
the Nasser period arose not because of women’s exclusion from the
workforce but because...
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Umm Kulthūm: Artistic Agency and the Shaping of an Arab Legend, 1967–2007 by Laura Lohman
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (2): 110–112.
Published: 01 July 2012
... of Middle East women’s studies 8:2
that coincided with its further gendering as displaced, mostly female,
Shi‘a villagers replaced a declining Maronite workforce.
Chapter 5 lays bare the state’s own gender bias regarding women’s
“suitability for mechanized labor” (117...
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Women in Civil Society: The State, Islamism, and Networks in the UAE by Wanda Krause
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (1): 131–134.
Published: 01 March 2010
...% of the
workforce. As a result, women’s literacy has skyrocketed in the last two
decades, and women are increasingly visible in government and other
jobs. However, government rhetoric also emphasizes women’s gendered
responsibilities to the family, and women are still marginalized in many
ways...
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Gendering the History of Libya: Transnational and Feminist Approaches
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 98–103.
Published: 01 March 2015
... the formation of a skilled, educated workforce (as noted by Yeaw and Palmieri). Focusing on labor and scrutinizing Esso’s petroleum town Marsa el-Brega, Bini reveals how the semiclosed space allowed the oil giant to divide employees according to nationality, race, and education, creating hierarchies among...
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The Centrality of Gender to Understanding Turkish Politics
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (3): 325–330.
Published: 01 November 2015
... in the workforce has negatively affected the patriarchal nature of the family in Turkey and that global capitalism has deepened women’s exploitation. The chapter addresses the invisibility of domestic labor, women’s low-paid insecure employment, and inequalities in the labor market. Violence is used as a broad...
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Pieces of Us: The Intimate as Imperial Archive
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (3): 268–291.
Published: 01 November 2018
... Basrawi. “Arab Camp” actually housed a multinational workforce and had entrance signs in Arabic, Swahili, Urdu, and Italian. Sabbagh explained to Fahmi that the Italians who lived with them were “remnants of the Italian army, 2,000 of them, who were stranded in the shambles of Mussolini’s retreat...
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