Despite the many efforts toward achieving gender equality, the MENA region continues to rank the lowest worldwide in women’s economic participation and opportunity. This article discusses the several obstacles on the sociocultural, structural, institutional and legal levels that must be con...
This report aims to contribute to policy debates on Early Childhood Care and Preschool Education (ECCPE) expansion in Turkey, an issue that has been an emerging policy issue. It has been discussed mostly from the perspective of reducing constraints on female labour supply (and hence addressing th...
This study points out the challenges that women in poverty pockets in Al-Mafraq (Jordan) face on the economic level. It highlights the participation of women in small enterprises and discusses the ways in which the socio-economic status of these women could be improved. Indeed, it focuses on spec...
This study questions the impact of the absence of young women from the workplace in the MENA region, at all the working levels. It emphasizes the potential and the economic benefits of increasing women´s employment in the region. The study furthermore seeks to understand the expectations of...
The report provides an overview of current available data of women’s economic role in the MENA region. It summarises the main themes from recent policy-oriented literature on the factors that constrain or promote women’s economic empowerment. It examines the legal framework and the ba...
Even with the progress achieved in closing the gender gap, especially in education, a huge gender gap in the economic activity still persists in the MENA region.The book gives an overview of approaches and measures in eighteen of the Middle East and Northern Africa´s economies to promote, s...
Part time work isone important challenge to Gender equality in the labour market—a key topic in the Nordic cooperation on gender equality 2011-2014. It is more common among women than men and affects their economic opportunities at the individual level and the gender equality in the labour ...
The rate of women´s participation in the Jordanian labour market is still one of the lowest in the world, according to the Global Gender Gap Report 2014.This study examines the reality of working women in Jordan in three fields namely: Secretarial, beauty salons and supportive health servic...
Despite the progress made in women’s education in Jordan and the decrease of the gender gap in education, women´s labour force participation rate is still very low. Indeed, a big gender gap in labour force still persists and women´s skills and qualifications are not utilised to ...
This report provides an overview of the transposition of EU gender equality law in the 28 Member States, in addition to Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Turkey. It is composed of reports from experts, of Member States, EEA Countries, Croatia, Former Yu...
This platform is part of the Axis 1 "Strengthening the capacities of equality actors" of the Priority Solidarity Fund "Women for the future in the Mediterranean" funded by the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs and led by the European Institute of the Mediterranean, in the framework of the project “Developing Women's Empowerment” labelled by the Union for the Mediterranean.
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