Description
| Product ID: | 9781316510476 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Facing Barriers |
| Subtitle: | Palestinian Women in a Jewish-Dominated Labor Market |
| Authors: | Author: Vered Kraus, Yuval P. Yonay |
| Page Count: | 298 |
| Subjects: | Social discrimination and social justice, Social discrimination & inequality, Gender studies: women and girls, Sociology: work and labour, Constitution: government and the state, Gender studies: women, Sociology: work & labour, Constitution: government & the state, Israel, Palestine |
| Description: | This book analyses the labor experience of Israeli Palestinian women, arguing that state policies and widespread discrimination hinder their low labor force participation and success. It is for researchers in a variety of disciplines, including Middle East studies, politics, sociology, anthropology, law, race and ethnic studies, and gender studies. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2018-03-22 |
