Myths and realities of the impact of political Islam on women: female employment in Indonesia and Iran

Bahramitash, Roksana

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“…Our selection of external markers is grounded in literature suggesting that in the context of religious fundamentalism or politicized religion, women’s visibility in the public sphere may be reduced by the combination of physical separation through veiling and the withdrawal of women from public life (including waged work) to the private sphere (Moghadam 1994), although this relationship is not consistent across societies and social classes (Amin 1997; Bahramitash 2004; Gerami and Lehnerer 2001). Our selection of internal markers of gendered behaviors - namely, a focus on household decision making and eating meals together - is based on literature that suggests that women’s power in the household is strongly reflected in their active participation in household decision making and equality in day-to-day household behaviors (Narayan 2006; Presser and Sen 2000).…”

Section: India Human Development (Ihds)mentioning

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Muslim and Hindu Women’s Public and Private Behaviors: Gender, Family, and Communalized Politics in India

Desai

Temsah

2014

Demography

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Prior research on fundamentalist religious movements has focused attention on the complicated relationship between gender, family and religion. Using data from a nationally representative survey of 30,000 Hindu and Muslim women, this study compares the daily public and private behaviors of women in India to examine how gender and family norms are shaped in the context of communalized identity politics. Building on the theoretical framework of “doing gender”, it argues that because communal identities are expressed through externally visible behaviors, greater religious differences are expected in external markers of gendered behaviors and family norms. Results indicate that Muslim women are more likely to engage in veiling and less likely to venture outside the home for recreation and employment. However, religious differences are absent when attention is directed at private behaviors such as household decision making power, gender segregation within households, and discrimination against daughters. Results underscore the multidimensionality of gender.

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Section: India Human Development (Ihds)mentioning

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Muslim and Hindu Women’s Public and Private Behaviors: Gender, Family, and Communalized Politics in India

Desai

Temsah

2014

Demography

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“…the exodus of Iranians from Iran after the revolution, economic exigencies dictated that Khomeini modify his initial edict in light of the extreme shortage of professionals and technicians in the country. As a result of this dire labour shortage, people with skills, including women, were asked to participate in the workforce (Moghadam, 2002; Bahramitash, 2004). To entice women to return to work, many of the privileges they had enjoyed prior to the 1979 revolution were reinstated.…”

Section: Myth and Reality #1: Women Do Not Participate In The Labour mentioning

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Behind the veil: an exploratory study of the myths and realities of women in the Iranian workforce

Ghorbani

Tung

2007

Human Res Mgmt Journal

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“…Unfortunately, as Haeri (2002, p. xii) argues, this has sometimes led to a similarly unidimensional picture based on a dichotomy between Muslim women who are obedient and those who rebel against local gender norms. Several researchers have now started to unpack the notion of the professional Muslim woman (Bahramitash, 2004; Ghorbani and Tung, 2007; Hutchings et al ., 2010; Metcalfe, 2008). Following calls for in‐depth explorations of the complexities, diversities and ambiguities in professional Muslim women's lives in specific socio‐political contexts, this study aims at making visible how Pakistani working women are both subjugated and empowered by diverse relations of power.…”

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Negotiating Gender Relations: Muslim Women and Formal Employment in Pakistan's Rural Development Sector

Grünenfelder¹

2012

Gender Work & Organization

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Drawing on evidence from qualitative field research, this article explores how Pakistani female development practitioners experience their work situations as they are shaped both by local sociocultural norms and globalized development agendas. In this context, policies at global and national levels demand that more female development practitioners work in remote rural places in Pakistan, thus creating new employment opportunities for some Pakistani women. This article argues that, in this work environment, these women are exposed to different expectations about their gender behaviour and that they therefore develop physical strategies on the one hand and discursive strategies on the other in order to negotiate gender relations in a way that allows them to engage in formal employment. This article adds to under‐researched debates on gender and work in Muslim countries as well as to debates in critical development and gender studies.

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Myths and realities of the impact of political Islam on women: female employment in Indonesia and Iran

Cited by 8 publications

References 9 publications

Muslim and Hindu Women’s Public and Private Behaviors: Gender, Family, and Communalized Politics in India

Muslim and Hindu Women’s Public and Private Behaviors: Gender, Family, and Communalized Politics in India

Behind the veil: an exploratory study of the myths and realities of women in the Iranian workforce

Negotiating Gender Relations: Muslim Women and Formal Employment in Pakistan's Rural Development Sector

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