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.
Supporting Women’s Livelihoods in Egypt: Opportunities and Challenges

Authors

Caroline Krafft

Associate Professor of Economics, St. Catherine University

Supporting Women’s Livelihoods in Egypt: Opportunities and Challenges

Authors

Emma Kettle

St. Catherine University, Department of Economics and...