1 option
Facing barriers : Palestinian women in a Jewish-dominated labor market / Vered Kraus and Yuval P. Yonay.
Lippincott Library HD6182.2 .K69 2018
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kraus, Vered, author.
- Yonay, Yuval P., 1958- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women, Arab--Employment--Israel.
- Women, Arab.
- Muslim women--Employment--Israel.
- Muslim women.
- Muslim women--Employment.
- Israel.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 285 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- Why are Muslim and Arab women less likely to be part of the modern labor force? A popular answer claims that it is the unique cultural and religious heritage of these women that leads them to choose or to follow options other than participating in the labor force. In many Muslim countries legislation is explicitly based on the Shari'a (Islamic law), and "family laws and practices treat women as inferior to men" (Hajjar 2004). Many Muslim countries also deliberately avoid labor laws that ban gender discrimination, do not provide maternity leaves, do not legislate affordable child care, and formally resist the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW; Sonbol 2010; cf. Afkhami and Friedl 1997; Anwar 2009; Sadiqi and Annaji 2011).
- Contents:
- Why Arab and Muslim women participate less in the labor market than other women?
- The subordinated citizens : Palestinian Israelis in historical, social, and economic contexts
- Changing demography : trends of educational attainment, marriage patterns, and rertility
- Slowly but steadily : Muslim women enter the labor market
- Limited success : Muslim women's standing in the labor market
- Far and isolated : Bedouin women in the Naqab
- Residents but not citizens : the annexed women of Jerusalem
- The "favorite minority"? Druze women in the labor market
- The half-full glass : Christian women in the labor market
- Conclusion : the politics of employment in an ethnocracy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781316510476
- 1316510476
- OCLC:
- 994296378
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.