Transitions to Adulthood in the Middle East and North Africa [electronic resource] : Young Women's Rising? /
Gebel, M.author.
Heyne, S.author.
This book identifies chances and barriers women face in their transition to adulthood in Egypt, Iran, Jordan, and Syria. Adopting a life course perspective, it provides a new integrative micro-macro-theoretical framework and innovative analyses of individual life courses based on longitudinal data.
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; Young women's rising?; A life course perspective: The transition to adulthood; Research design: A life course approach; Research questions and aims of the book; Outline of the book; Part I: Women in MENA Countries: Theory and Background; 2 A Micro-Macro Theory of Young Women's Transition to Adulthood; Individual agency; Linked lives; The social embeddedness of individual life courses; The interrelation of life course events
3 The Context of Case Studies: Egypt, Iran, Jordan, and Syria in ComparisonState, development, and economic policy; Religion, ethnicity, and culture; Educational expansion and the education system; Labor market structure and institutions; Family regimes; 4 Data and Methodology; Data sets; Analytical samples; Dependent variables and methods; Independent variables; Part II: Women's Success and Failure in the Education System; 5 Education Failures? The Problem of Limited Access to Education and Early Dropout Among Young Women; Educational attainment and early dropout in a life course perspective
The extent of non-enrollment and early dropoutNon-enrollment in Egypt; The phenomenon of early dropout in Egypt, Iran, Jordan,and Syria; Conclusions; 6 The Determinants of Young Women's Access to Higher Education; Access to higher education in a life course perspective; Transitions to higher levels of education; Determinants of access to higher levels of education; The roles of tutoring and failure in basic education in success in the education system; Reasons for stopping education; Specialization and field of study; Conclusions
Part III: Housework or Wage Work? Young Women's Transitions After Leaving Education7 Back Home: Young Women's Transition from School to Inactivity; Theory: The determinants of labor market inactivity; Overall incidence of and reasons for inactivity; The determinants of female labor market inactivity; Attitudes to women's role in the spheres of workand family; The characteristics of housework; Conclusions; 8 Stiff Competition for Privileged Jobs: Young Women's Transition from School to Work; Theory: The transition from school to work; Research design; Job search duration
Determinants of job search durationHow to find a first job: The role of 'wasta'; Conclusions; 9 A Polarized World of Female Employment? The Quality of First Employment; Theory: The segmented labor market; Description of different kinds of first employment; The quality of first jobs; Education qualifications and job type; Conclusions; Part IV Family Formation; 10 Young Women's Transition to Marriage and Household Formation in Difficult Times; Theory: The determinants of marriage behavior; Finding the right partner; The timing of marriage in the early life course
The determinants of marriage timing
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book identifies chances and barriers women face in their transition to adulthood in Egypt, Iran, Jordan, and Syria. Adopting a life course perspective, it provides a new integrative micro-macro-theoretical framework and innovative analyses of individual life courses based on longitudinal data.
Ethnology-Middle East .
Sociology.
Social policy.
Ethnology-Africa.
Social structure.
Social inequality.
Office management.
Middle Eastern Culture.
Gender Studies.
Social Policy.
African Culture.
Social Structure, Social Inequality.
Office Management.