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Women Who Stopped Working Due to Their Husband’s Opposition in Egypt

Published:2024-04-01 Issue:1 Volume:20 Page:1-43
ISSN:1475-3693
Container-title:Review of Middle East Economics and Finance
language:en
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Author:

Iparraguirre Jose Louis¹,Hadi Zeina Amr Hosny Zaki Mohamed Abdel¹

Affiliation:

1. Ms Faculty of Business Administration , German International University of Applied Sciences , Cairo , Egypt

Abstract

Abstract This paper investigates a neglected reason underlying the low female labor participation rates in Egypt: husbands’ opposition. We find that opposition falls with increasing levels of educational attainment and chronological age of the husband. Age at first marriage, religious affiliation, wealth, and the extent to which a husband upholds traditional views regarding the participation of women in the labor market and gender equality in general were not significant. We also report an inverse relationship between the likelihood of husband’s opposition and the number of children in the household, which suggests that financial considerations may outstrip normative considerations.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Link

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/rmeef-2023-0011/pdf

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