Women in Civil Society

Krause, Wanda

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“…Studies in the Arab Middle Eastern context focus on various social and cultural factors to explain the low participation of women in the labor force and their inferior conditions of employment. Such factors include the patriarchal and male-dominated culture, the conservative nature of Islam, strict codes of gender segregation, strength of family ties and social definition of women's role as that of wife and mother, and cultural restrictions on women's mobility (Moghadam, 1998;Miles, 2002;Krause, 2008;Shallal and Abdalla, 2012).…”

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Gender-based differences in employment conditions of local and expatriate workers in the GCC context

Al‐Waqfi

Alfaki

2015

International Journal of Manpower

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Purpose -The labor force participation rates of females have been increasing steadily over the past few decades in the UAE and other Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries and are expected to continue to increase due to increasing levels of education and social change. While, there is a substantive amount of literature on the issues of gender gap in wages and employment conditions in Western developed economies, the evidence from developing economies -especially in the Middle East -remains very scant. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to contribute to bridging this gap by examining gender-based differences in employment conditions for local and expatriate workers in the context of the GCC region. Design/methodology/approach -The authors utilize a data set from the 2007 cross-section Dubai Labor Market Survey which covers a stratified random sample of employees in the UAE labor market. In addition to descriptive statistics and cross-tabulations of the data by workers' gender, nationality, and various characteristics of their employment conditions, two empirical models intended to investigate factors that influence access to employment and wage determination of male and female workers in the UAE labor market were estimated. Findings -The findings of the study reveal that there are gender-based differences and inequity in employment in the UAE labor market. The authors highlight specific impacts of contextual factors on the employment conditions of women compared to men. The gender gap in the UAE context is compounded by nationality effects; whereby gender-based differences become less apparent in the case of foreign workers compared to UAE nationals. Originality/value -This paper is one of very few studies that addressed the gender gap in employment conditions in the Arab Middle Eastern or GCC context. The paper uses quantitative data from a large random sample of workers in the UAE.

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Section: Ijm 363mentioning

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Gender-based differences in employment conditions of local and expatriate workers in the GCC context

Al‐Waqfi

Alfaki

2015

International Journal of Manpower

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“…91 For instance, "internal activities include those related to Ramadan fasts, such as sponsoring and holding iftars (dinners to break the fast), as well as courses in members' houses for their halaqas." 92 In addition, Islah used its magazine, al-Islah (Reform), to advocate for a variety of social reforms, particularly the development of Islamic education, censorship of Western media, and encroachment of foreign businesses and culture in Emirati society. 93 Examination of issues of al-Islah magazine from the 1970s and 1980s demonstrates that the organization's aims were primarily social and local.…”

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Rentier Islamism in the Absence of Elections: The Political Role of Muslim Brotherhood Affiliates in Qatar and the United Arab Emirates

Freer¹

2017

Int. J. Middle East Stud.

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Drawing on contemporary history and empirical research, this article revises traditional rentier state theory, which fails to account for the existence of Islamist movements in states accruing substantial outside wealth. Rentier state theory expects that citizens of such states will form opposition blocs only when their stake in rent income is threatened. Examining the development of Muslim Brotherhood affiliates in two archetypal rentier states, or super-rentiers, in the Gulf—Qatar and the United Arab Emirates—this article shows that ideology rather than rent motivated the formation of independent Islamist movements. This research helps to break the causal link established by rentier state theory between oil rents and lack of politically relevant Islamist organizations. We find that the presence of oil rents, instead of rendering Islamist complaint politically irrelevant, shapes the ways in which Islamist movements seek to influence government policies.

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Cultivating “Omani ambitions”: Entrepreneurship, distributive labor, and the temporalities of diversification in the Arab Gulf

Steiner

2019

Economic Anthropology

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Despite substantial investments in the diversification and development of their economies, Oman and other Arab Gulf states have yet to experience structural changes that meaningfully reduce their dependence on oil. Pointing out that the “problem” of oil dependence has never existed independent of a development apparatus attempting to solve it, this article explores how developmental discourses and institutions in Oman produce unintended (but nevertheless salient) distributive effects. With scholarship on the region dominated by work on the rentier state that dismisses the importance of developmental institutions and the labor of citizens in systems of rent distribution, this article proposes a new framework that investigates how rentier development operates as a discourse in ways that shape the allocation of resources and the behavior of citizen‐subjects. Through the lens of an Omani entrepreneur named Mohammed and the organizations and individuals who encouraged and supported him, this article draws on insights from the anthropology of development to describe how efforts to transform mind‐sets and instill entrepreneurial dispositions generate not a structural change in Oman's economy but distributive arrangements that enable citizens to earn livelihoods and support through the enactment of virtues that resonate with the state's development narratives.

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Women in Civil Society

Cited by 24 publications

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Gender-based differences in employment conditions of local and expatriate workers in the GCC context

Gender-based differences in employment conditions of local and expatriate workers in the GCC context

Rentier Islamism in the Absence of Elections: The Political Role of Muslim Brotherhood Affiliates in Qatar and the United Arab Emirates

Cultivating “Omani ambitions”: Entrepreneurship, distributive labor, and the temporalities of diversification in the Arab Gulf

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