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Author: Rita Stephan
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2023-02-21
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 1477326529
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive study of the gendered economic and social impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Middle East and North Africa.
Author: Suzan Abdel-Rahman
Publisher:
Published: 2022
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe COVID-19 outbreak has caused substantial changes in employment outcomes and income distribution. This study aims to examine the negative impacts of COVID-19 on labour market outcomes, particularly emphasizing the gender gap in five countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The study investigates whether women are more likely to lose their jobs temporarily or permanently, change their main job, and experience reduced working hours or income drops than males during the COVID-19 outbreak. A multivariate probit model is used to estimate the determinants of labour market outcomes simultaneously. The study used the Combined COVID-19 MENA Monitor Household Survey for Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Jordan, and Sudan. The current study provides empirical evidence that women were more likely to change their main activity and be permanently laid off than males. The increased childcare and housework responsibilities significantly shaped women's labour market outcomes during the pandemic. The findings of the current study contribute to a better understanding of the impact of COVID-19 on gender inequality in MENA countries that have not been adequately studied. Mitigation policies should target vulnerable groups, especially women who have suffered disproportionately negative effects of COVID-19.
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Published: 2022-02-14
Total Pages: 106
ISBN-13: 9251354006
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Regional Rapid Gender Analysis (RGA) is conducted with a special focus on Iraq and the Sudan as case studies to provide information about the different needs, capacities and coping strategies of women, men, boys and girls in a crisis. Rapid Gender Analysis is built up progressively: using a range of primary and secondary information to understand gender roles and relations and how they may change during a crisis. It provides practical programming and operational recommendations to meet the different needs of women, men, boys and girls and to ensure we ‘do no harm’.? Rapid gender analysis uses the tools and approaches of gender analysis fameworks and adapts them to the shorter time-frames, rapidly changing contexts, and insecure environments that often?characterise?humanitarian interventions, to ensure that data is available to inform humanitarian response efforts and contributing to recovery and preparedness efforts.
Author: Hussein Solomon
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-12-08
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9811570477
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers readers critical insights into a region in crisis and explores different facets of the crisis from governance to gender to the politics of identity, the challenge of the environment and the enduring impact of demographic variables and technological change. Whilst exploring the nature of the crises, the book also explores how policy-makers have responded to these and what other alternatives there are in overcoming challenges posed. Whilst the focus is on the Middle East North Africa region as a whole, the authors are well aware of the unique characteristics of individual countries. Hence the book examines regional trends whilst also being conscious of the national specificities of each country. In combining the general with the particular, the book approaches its subject matter from both a quantitative and a qualitative perspective allowing one to understand regional trends and country specific peculiarities.
Author: Anis Ben Brik
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2022-09-23
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1000653692
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book critically reflects on the responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) by exploring the impact and possible future outcomes in a region already struggling with the effects of a decade of uprisings, failed or difficult political transitions, state collapses, civil war and international conflict. International scholars offer a comprehensive treatment of today's major societal issues and provide a unique, broadly comparative view on public policy responses in the MENA region. Addressing the implications and public policy responses to the crisis, they bring a critical perspective to the emerging challenges of evidence-based policy making; the locus of authority in transnational issues; the nature of governance; and the role of government and implications for civil society. Tackling the psychology, sociology, education, law, and public policy issues related to the social and economic implications of the COVID 19 pandemic, this book will be of interest to scholars and students alike.
Author: Fatma Muge Gocek
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1995-06-15
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780231513913
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEmploying a broad, interdisciplinary perspective on gender relations, Reconstructing Gender in the Middle East questions long-standing stereotypes about the traditional subordination of women in the region. With essays on gender construction in Iran, Turkey, Israel, Morocco, Egypt, Lebanon, and the Occupied Territories, this collection offers a wide-ranging exploration of tradition, identity, and power in different parts of the Middle East.Seeking to overcome monolithic Western notions of women's life in "the traditional society," the essays in Part I reexamine the assumption that such societies leave little room for female participation.Part II focuses on the reconstruction of identities by women in Iran, Turkey, Israel, and the Occupied Territories. The authors examine the complex variables that contribute to the development of identities—including gender, class, and ethnicity—in various Middle Eastern societies, questioning whether certain identities are more important to women than others. These essays also look at the issue of group identity formation versus the autonomy of the individual.Part III looks at the relationship between gender and power in everyday life in Lebanon, Israel, Egypt, and Morocco, showing how power relations are constantly contested and renegotiated among family members and members of a community, between nations and between men and women.WIth its collection of enlightened and diverse contemporary perspectives on women in the Middle East, Reconstructing Gender in the Middle East is an important work that will have significant impact on the way we look at gender in traditional societies.
Author: Eleanor Abdella Doumato
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9781588261342
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work assesses the impact of globalization on women in Middle Eastern societies. To explore the gendered effects of social change, the authors examine trends within, as well as among, states in the region. Detailed case studies reveal the mixed results of global pressures.
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2022-09-22
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 0755643909
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe impact of the COVID-19 pandemic – at the interlocking levels of politics, economy, and society – have been different across regions, states, and societies. In the case of the Middle East and North Africa, which was already in the throes of intense tumult following the onset of the 2011 Arab Spring, COVID's blows have on the one hand followed the trajectory of some global patterns, while at the same time playing out in regionally specific ways. Based on empirical country-level analysis, this volume brings together an international team of contributors seeking to untangle how COVID-19 unfolds across the MENA. The analyses are framed through a contextual adaptation of Ulrich Beck's famous concept of “risk society” that pinpointed the negative consequences of modernity and its unbridled capitalism. The book traces how this has come home in full force in the COVID-19 pandemic. The editors, Larbi Sadiki and Layla Saleh, use the term "Arab risk society". They highlight short-term and long-term repercussions across the MENA. These include socio-economic inequality, a revitalized state of authoritarianism challenged by relentless democratic struggles. But the analyses are attuned to problem-solving research. The "ethnographies of the pandemic" included in this book investigate transformations and coping mechanisms within each country case study. They provide an ethically-informed research praxis that can respond to the manifold crises crashing down upon MENA polities and societies
Author: Valentine M. Moghadam
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9781588261717
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExtrait de la préface : "The subject of this study is social change in the Middle East, North Africa, and Afghanistan ; its impact on women's legal status and social positions ; and women's varied responses to, and involvment in, change processes. It also deals with constructions of gender during periods of social and political change. Social change is usually described in terms of modernization, revolution, cultural challenges, and social movements. Much of the standard literature on these topics does not examine women or gender, and thus [the author] hopes this study will contribute to an appreciation of the significance of gender in the midst of change. Neither are there many sociological studies on MENA and Afghansitan or studies on women in MENA and Afghanistan from a sociological perspective. Myths and stereotypes abund regarding women, Islam, and the region, and the sevents of September 11 and since have only compounded them. This book is intended in part to "normalize" the Middle East by underscoring the salience of structural determinants other than religion. It focuses on the major social-change processes in the region to show how women's lives are shaped not only by "Islam" and "culture", but also by economic development, the state, class location, and the world system. Why the focus on women? It is [the autor's] contention that middle-class women are consciously and unconsciously major agents of social change in the region, at the vanguard of movements for modernity, democratization and citizenship."
Author: Nikki R. Keddie
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2008-10-01
Total Pages: 543
ISBN-13: 0300157460
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis history of Middle Eastern women is the first to survey gender relations in the Middle East from the earliest Islamic period to the present. Outstanding scholars analyze a rich array of sources ranging from histories, biographical dictionaries, law books, prescriptive treatises, and archival records, to the Traditions (hadith) of the Prophet and imaginative works like the Thousand and One Nights, to modern writings by Middle Eastern women and by Western writers. They show that gender boundaries in the Middle East have been neither fixed nor immutable: changes in family patterns, religious rituals, socio-economic necessity, myth and ideology—and not least, women’s attitudes—have expanded or circumscribed women’s roles and behavior through the ages.
