Literature on women›s economic empowerment confirm the importance of labour as one of the main pillars of women›s economic independence and participation in public life, a way to promote their social status and allow them to take part in decision making, whether on the pol...
This report focuses on the environment within the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region for women’s entrepreneurship. Beyond existing structural barriers related to access to finance and a lack of knowledge regarding entrepreneurship and business start-up, the report finds th...
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...
This report summarizes the findings and proceedings of the Expert Group Meeting, which was held in May 2013, organized by ILO Regional Office for Arab States, with the participation of a group of regional and international experts to address women’s economic empowerment in the Arab transiti...
This publication forms part of a regional initiative "Gender Equality and Workers’ Rights in the Informal Economies of Arab States". It is a compendium of official statistics, laws and policies that do not reflect well the current process termed as "informalization" of employment, which lim...
This report summarizes the seminar “Gender and Women’s Economic Integration in Maghreb Countries”, held in Tunis from 5 to 7 October 2009. This seminar brought together 60 men and women experts in economy, development and gender equality to discuss several subjects, such as trad...
The report addresses the consequences of gender inequality on economic development in the EU Mediterranean Partners countries. It then proposes a list of recommendations on how to improve women’s access to an economic life. Thus, the study focuses on the social, cultural, anthropological or...
This research describes the different adaptation strategies used by women in Gaza to compensate the collapse of household pay under the combined effects of the Israeli occupation, internal political struggles, military destruction and the current economic blockage. The survey focuses on the econo...
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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