Women, Work, and Economic Reform in the Middle East and North Africa

✍ Scribed by Valentine M. Moghadam

• Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 272
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Globalization and changing political economies in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are affecting women's labor-force participation, educational attainment, and access to economic resources. But are these changes in fact resulting in economic gains for women? And will this produce an intensification or a subversion of the patriarchal gender contract that has thus far characterized the region? Addressing these questions, this book examines the connections between gender relations and economic reform. Moghadam begins with an overview of the political economy of women’s employment and education, followed by case studies from Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Jordan, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia, and Turkey. In the final chapters of the book, she draws together data to explore future possibilities for gender relations in the MENA states.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Tables and Figures
Preface
PART ONE Introduction and Overview
1 The Political Economy of Women's Employment
2 Educating Women for a Globalizing Economy
PART TWO Case Studies of Economic Reforms and Working Women
3 Morocco and Tunisia: Export-Led Growth and Working Women
4 Turkey: From Housewife to Worker?
5 Egypt: "Yes, It Can Get Worse Than This"— Economic Reform and Women's Employment
6 Jordan and Syria: Gender Ideology and Political Economy
7 The Islamic Republic of Iran: The End of Ideology? Women's Employment Issues
8 Algeria: Economic Liberalization, Political Crisis, and Working Women
PART THREE Responses and Strategies
9 Structural Change and Women's Mobilization
10 Conclusions: Toward a New Gender Contract?
Acronyms and Abbreviations
References
Index
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