RURAL WOMEN IN EGYPT: OPPORTUNITIES AND VULNERABILITIES

Caitlyn Keo (), Caroline Kraff () and Luca Fedi ()
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Caitlyn Keo: Caroline Kraff
Caroline Kraff: St. Catherine University
Luca Fedi: International Labour Organization
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Caroline Krafft

No 1359, Working Papers from Economic Research Forum

Abstract: This paper investigates the lives and livelihoods of rural women in Egypt. Rural women have lower economic participation, by standard measures, than urban women or men. This paper introduced additional measures of economic participation and found that standard measures vastly underestimated the economic engagement of rural women. These additional measures also allowed us to better delineate the nature of women’s contributions to the economy and society. Rural women were frequently engaged in tending livestock, in household non-farm enterprises, and domestic work. Rural women had distinct patterns of family formation, with higher rates of early marriage than urban women and higher fertility rates. Although gender role attitudes were equitable in some respects, such as gender equality in education, other aspects, such as attitudes towards work and domestic violence, showed rural women were particularly vulnerable.

Pages: 39
Date: 2019-10-20, Revised 2019-10-20
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