Facing Barriers: Palestinian Women in a Jewish-Dominated Labor Market
Cambridge University Press, 3/22/2018
EAN 9781316510476, ISBN10: 1316510476
Hardcover, 298 pages, 23.4 x 16.4 x 1.8 cm
Language: English
Palestinian women have slowly become active in the formal labor market in Israel. In this book, Vered Kraus and Yuval Yonay describe and analyse the labor experience of these Palestinian women, and explain why Palestinian and Jewish women have different rates and outcomes in the labor market. Challenging popular views that ascribe these differences to Arab culture and Islam, they instead find that it is state policies and widespread discrimination that hinder Palestinian women's participation and success. By including the various Palestinian sub-groups - Muslims, Bedouins, Druze, Christians, non-citizen residents of Jerusalem - this book shows how the specific life circumstances of the women from these subgroups affect their employment and achievements. The book thus enriches the acute discussion on the labour market experiences of Muslim and Arab women in the Middle East and North Africa and in advanced industrialized societies.
1. Why Arab and Muslim women participate less in the labor market than other women?
2. The subordinated citizens
Palestinian Israelis in historical, social, and economic contexts
3. Changing demography
trends of educational attainment, marriage patterns, and fertility
4. Slowly but steadily
Muslim women enter the labor market
5. Limited success
Muslim women's standing in the labor market
6. Far and isolated
Bedouin women in the Naqab
7. Residents but not citizens
the annexed women of Jerusalem
8. The 'favorite minority'? Druze women in the labor market
9. The half-full glass
Christian women in the labor market
10. Conclusion
the politics of employment in an ethnocracy.