Male-Female Earnings Differentials Among the Highly Educated Egyptians

Reza (Gholamreza) Arabsheibani ()

Education Economics, 2000, vol. 8, issue 2, 129-138

Abstract: The position of women in Arab/Islamic societies has been the subject of numerous studies by sociologists, economists, historians, feminists and political scientists. With a remarkable consistency, almost all these studies claim that Arab/Muslim women suffer gross inequalities in many aspects of their lives, including pay. This paper estimates male-female earnings differentials for a sample of university graduates in Egypt, and finds that just over one-quarter of the gross earnings differential between men and women remains 'unexplained'. This, which is usually taken to be the result of discrimination, is not large compared with the results obtained from other countries. Thus, at least in the case of graduates, Egyptian females do not suffer grossly from discrimination in pay.

Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.1080/096452900410703

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