Women in the Informal Sector and Poverty Reduction in Morocco: The City of Fez as a Case Study

ISBN-13: 9781789971583 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 318 str.

Souad Belhorma

Opis

This book focuses on investigating the contribution of women's self-employed work in the informal sector in reducing household poverty in the city of Fez. This is done through the medium of specific framework objectives and identifies the various challenges for the development of their businesses in the city.

Spis treści

CONTENTS: Theoretical and Conceptual Framework - Methodology - Women and Self-employment in the City of Fez - The Contribution of Women's Self-employment in the City of Fez to Poverty Reduction - Women's Self-employment and Emancipation - Difficulties and Perspectives of Women's Self-employment.

O autorze

Souad Belhorma holds a PhD in language and English Literature from the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences, Dhar Mehraz-Fez. She is currently an assistant professor of English studies at the Polydisciplinary Faculty of Errachidia, University of Moulay Ismail. She has authored numerous articles and in addition to her participation in different national and international conferences, she also works around issues such as poverty, gender issues, politics, and work. She holds certificates from courses on women's rights, human rights, gender-based violence, and youth both at national and international level. She has interned in different associations, as well as human rights and women's rights organizations. She is currently working on a research project on sub-Saharan migration, labor and gender-based violence in Morocco.