Source: Friedrich Naumann Foundation Author(s): Hend Shaheen Original Link: https://mena.fnst.org/content/five-limits-womens-freedom-arab-world The status of women’s freedom across the Arab region has always undergone heaps of critiques. Nevertheless, ratios and forms of gender-inequality vary from country to country according to social and cultural customs as well as legal provisions. While...
Learn MoreSource: Economic Research Forum Author(s): Ahmed Rashad, Mesbah Sharaf Original Link: http://erf.org.eg/publications/does-maternal-employment-affect-child-nutrition-status-new-evidence-from-egypt/ Abstract: Despite that maternal employment can increase family income, several studies have suggested that it has adverse health consequences on children. The literature on the effects of maternal...
Learn MoreSource: International Peace Institute Author(s): José Vericat Original Link: https://www.ipinst.org/2017/10/Womens-struggle-for-citizenship-after-the-arab-uprisings Executive Summary The Arab uprisings were, more than anything else, citizen revolts. They sprang from an irrepressible urge to transform relations between an authoritarian ruler and his subjects into a partnership between the...
Learn MoreSource: Middle East Institute Author(s): Amal Kandeel Original Link: http://www.mei.edu/content/article/millions-rural-working-women-egypt-risk-climate-change The impacts of climate change on Egypt’s agriculture are likely to be substantial, and will affect the millions of Egyptian women reliant on this economic activity for their livelihoods. The agricultural sector employs a large percentage...
Learn MoreSource: Economic Research Forum Author(s): Maia Sieverding, Rania Roushdy, May Gadallah Original Link: http://erf.org.eg/publications/the-effect-of-mothers-employment-on-youth-gender-role-attitudes-evidence-from-egypt/ Abstract: Cross-nationally, having a working mother during childhood is associated with more egalitarian attitudes among both adult men and women. However, no previous studies...
Learn MoreSource: Economic Research Forum Author(s): Lobna AbdelLatif, Mohamed Ramadan, Sarah Elbakry Original Link: http://erf.org.eg/publications/how-gender-biased-are-female-headed-household-transfers-in-egypt/ Abstract: In this paper, we claim that the policy of targeting female-headed households’ (FHHs) may generate bias against women in male-headed households (MHHs) who may be more...
Learn MoreSource: Economic Research Forum Author(s): May Gadallah, Rania Roushdy, Maia Sieverding Original Link: http://erf.org.eg/publications/young-peoples-gender-role-attitudes-over-the-transition-to-adulthood-in-egypt/ Abstract: Change in gender role attitudes is a neglected dimension of research on the transition to adulthood in the Middle East and North Africa that has broad implications for young...
Learn MoreSource: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Unknown Original Link: https://timep.org/special-reports/a-fragile-egypt-in-a-changing-world-six-years-after-the-revolution/ Amid turmoil in the Middle East and changes in world leadership, much has been made of Egypt’s stability, but already in 2017 we have seen how much of this is illusory, with terrorism, sectarianism, and...
Learn MoreSource: Cairo Institute For Human Rights Studies Author(s): Unknown Original Link: http://www.cihrs.org/?p=19885&lang=en The mob-sexual assault of a university student in the early hours of Friday 31 March 2017 in the Qawmia area of the city of Zagazig, Sharkia governorate, tragically corroborates the persistence and prevalence of sexual violence against women in the Egyptian public...
Learn MoreSource: Barcelona Centre For International Affairs Author(s): Ghada Barsoum Original Link: https://www.cidob.org/en/publications/publication_series/sahwa_papers/scientific_paper/educated_young_Women_s_employment_decisions_in_egypt_a_qualitative_account/(language)/eng-US Overview: Despite decades of increased access to education, women’s conspicuous absence from the labour market in Egypt, and...
Learn MoreSource: Madamasr Author(s): Mona Ezzat Original Link: https://www.madamasr.com/en/2017/03/10/feature/society/on-workingWomen-feminist-testimonies-from-egypt/ I decided to focus on issues related to working women, because I believe they show the extent to which a society believes in the principles of social justice, citizenship and the affordance of equal opportunities. It also reflects whether...
Learn MoreSource: Economic Research Forum Author(s): Lobna AbdelLatif, Mohamed Ramadan, Mohamed Zaky Original Link: http://erf.org.eg/publications/public-value-perspective-for-gender-budgeting-evidence-from-egypt/ Abstract: This paper proposes a conceptual framework that relates failure of progressing in gender equality to weakness of budgetary and political institutions. Whereas, the former drift...
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