Facing Barriers: Palestinian Women in a Jewish-Dominated Labor Market

ISBN-13: 9781316649978 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 301 str.

Vered Kraus; Yuval P. Yonay

Opis

Analyzes the labor experience of Israeli Palestinian women, arguing that state policies and widespread discrimination hinder their labor force participation and success.

Spis treści

1. Why Arab and Muslim women participate less in the labor market than other women?; 2. The subordinated citizens: Palestinian Israelis in historical, social, and economic contexts; 3. Changing demography: trends of educational attainment, marriage patterns, and fertility; 4. Slowly but steadily: Muslim women enter the labor market; 5. Limited success: Muslim women's standing in the labor market; 6. Far and isolated: Bedouin women in the Naqab; 7. Residents but not citizens: the annexed women of Jerusalem; 8. The 'favorite minority'? Druze women in the labor market; 9. The half-full glass: Christian women in the labor market; 10. Conclusion: the politics of employment in an ethnocracy.