The economics of women and work in the Middle East and North Africa Introduction E. Mine Cinar Is all work the same A comparison of the determinants of female participation and hours of work in various employment states in Egypt Ragui Assaad Fatma El Hamidi Closing the gender gap in the Middle East and North Africa Nemat Shafik Mens work womens work : employment wages and occupational segregation in Bethlehem Jennifer Olmsted Gender segmention in the West Bank and Gaza strip : explaining the absence of Palestinian women from the formal labor force Rema Hammami Why women earn less Gender based factors affecting the earnings of self employed women in Turkey Simel Esim Factors affecting female managers careers in Turkey Isik Urla Zeytinoglu Omur Timurcanday Ozmen Alev Ergen(c)ʿcKatrinli Hayat Kabasakal Yasemin Arbak Gender based occupational segregation in the Turkish banking sector Glay Gnlk Senesen Semsa zar Post Fordist work political Islam and women in urban Turkey Aysenur Okten Working women and power within two income Turkish households E. Mine Cinar Nejat Anbarci Fertility education and household resources in Iran 1987 1992 Djavad Salehi Isfahani Female endangerment : the case of the Middle East and North Africa Djehane Hosni Adriana Chanmala Irans new Islamic home economics : an exploratory attempt to conceptualize womens work in the Islamic Republic Fatemeh Etemad Moghadam Female labor force participation and economic adjustment in the MENA region Massoud Karshenas Valentine M. Moghadam Analysis of sex based inequality : use of axiomatic approach in measurement and statistical inference via bootstrapping Sourushe Zandvakili Women work and economic restructuring : a regional overview Valentine M. Moghadam Dedication E. Mine Cinar