Policy Briefs
Supporting Women’s Livelihoods in Egypt: Opportunities and Challenges
No.
46
Publisher
Economic Research Forum
Date
October, 2019
Topic
J. Labor and Demographic Economics
In a nutshell:
- Egyptian women, especially rural women, have low economic participation by standard measures.
- Standard measures under-estimate the economic engagement of rural women.
- Married women work a “second shift” of domestic responsibilities.
- Gender role attitudes are equitable for education, but not work.
- One area where women, particularly rural women, are more en- gaged than men is in tending livestock and poultry.
- “Graduation” programs, providing livestock as assets, and ad- dressing the multitude of other constraints facing women, are a promising strategy for supporting Egyptian women.
Authors
Caroline Krafft
Associate Professor, Humphrey School of Public Affairs,...
Authors
Emma Kettle
St. Catherine University, Department of Economics and...