عنوان

Higher Education and Occupational Status of Women in Egypt

Number

LA114658

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

Higher Education and Occupational Status of Women in Egypt

General Material Designation

[Article]

First Statement of Responsibility

G. Arabsheibani

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Leiden

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Brill

Text of Note

"It has been argued that a combination of favourable legislation, free education and increase in demand for professional manpower has helped women in Egypt in finding their rightful place in the labour force. This paper presents an empirical study of the status of highly educated women in Egypt. By developing a model to decompose average monthly earnings of the two sexes it will be shown that highly educated Egyptian women have indeed been able to establish themselves in most of the professional occupations. However, in certain fields, for example, managerial, there still seems to be some sort of opposition to females holding positions of responsibility. The decomposition analysis shows that only 11 % of the earnings differential between men and women is attributable to different occupational distributions. Managerial, law, economics and physical sciences seem to be the "closed" occupations."

Date of Publication

1990

Physical description

213-218

Title

Journal of Asian and African Studies

Volume Number

25/3-4

International Standard Serial Number

1568-5217

Subject Term

African Studies

Subject Term

General

G. Arabsheibani

Call Number

10.1163/156852190X00067

Electronic name

p

[Article]

275578

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Y