Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Shami, Seteney Khalid.
2. Unesco.

Description

1. xix, 217 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

1. Based on the results of a non-governmental research project sponsored by UNESCO, this volume examines the impact of social and economic changes on patterns of women's work and on value systems concerning their social position in Arab societies. Case studies are drawn from Egypt, Jordan and Sudan.

Series statement

1. Berg/Unesco comparative studies

Uniform title

1. Berg/Unesco comparative studies.

Subject

1. Rural women > Employment > Arab countries > Case studies
2. Rural women > Employment > Egypt > Case studies
3. Women in agriculture > Egypt > Case studies
4. Rural women > Employment > Jordan > Case studies
5. Women in agriculture > Jordan > Case studies
6. Rural women > Employment > Sudan > Case studies
7. Women in agriculture > Sudan > Case studies
8. Rural women > Employment
9. Women in agriculture
10. Vrouwen
11. Sociale situatie
12. women
13. women workers
14. rural women
15. economic role
16. social role
17. rural area
18. urban area
19. trend
20. labour force participation
21. employment
22. sex discrimination
23. state intervention
24. agricultural development
25. subsistence farming
26. household production
27. political aspect
28. community participation
29. statistical table
30. femmes
31. travailleuses
32. femmes rurales
33. rôle économique
34. rôle social
35. zone rurale
36. zone urbaine
37. tendance
38. taux d'activité
39. emploi
40. discrimination fondée sur le sexe
41. intervention de l'Etat
42. développement agricole
43. agriculture de subsistance
44. production domestique
45. aspect politique
46. participation de la communauté
47. tableau statistique
48. mujeres
49. trabajadoras
50. mujeres rurales
51. papel económico
52. papel social
53. zona rural
54. zona urbana
55. tendencia
56. tasa de actividad de mano de obra
57. empleo
58. discriminación por razones de sexo
59. intervención estatal
60. desarrollo agrícola
61. agricultura de subsistencia
62. producción doméstica
63. aspecto político
64. participación comunitaria
65. cuadros estadísticos
66. Arab countries
67. Egypt
68. Jordan
69. Sudan
70. Egypt
71. Jordan
72. Sudan
73. Egypte
74. Jordanie
75. Soudan
76. Egipto
77. Jordania
78. Sudán

Genre/Form

1. Case studies
2. case study.
3. UNESCO pub.
4. bibliography.
5. Case studies.
6. Études de cas.
7. étude de cas.
8. pub UNESCO.
9. bibliographie.
10. estudio de casos.
11. bibliografía.

Contents

1. Women's participation in the Jordanian labour force : a comparison of rural and urban patterns / Seteney Shami and Lucine Taminian -- Rural women, work and gender ideology : a study in Egyptian political economic transformation / Soheir A. Morsy -- Women's participation in economic, social and political life in Sudanese urban and rural communities : the case of Saganna in Khartoum and Wad al-'Asha Village in the Gezira area / Zeinab B. El Bakri and El-Wathig M. Kameir -- Appendix: Report of the Unesco Regional Working Group on Women's Participation in Public Life in the Arab States Region, organized in co-operation with the Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Yarmouk (Irbid, Jordan, 13 to 16 December 1986).

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.