Higher Education and Occupational Status of Women in Egypt

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" Higher Education and Occupational Status of Women in Egypt "
G. Arabsheibani

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1071029
Doc. No	:	LA114658
Call No	:	‭10.1163/156852190X00067‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	G. Arabsheibani
Title & Author	:	Higher Education and Occupational Status of Women in Egypt [Article]\ G. Arabsheibani
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Journal of Asian and African Studies
Date	:	1990
Volume/ Issue Number	:	25/3-4
Page No	:	213–218
Abstract	:	"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."
Descriptor	:	African Studies
Descriptor	:	General
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/156852190X00067‬