In 2005 the World Bank released a gender assessment of the nation of Jordan, a country that, like many in the Middle East, has undergone dramatic social and gender transformations, in part by encouraging equal access to education for men and women. The resulting demographic picture there highly educated women who still largely stay at home as mothers and caregivers prompted the World Bank to label Jordan a gender paradox. In "Gendered Paradoxes," Fida J. Adely shows that assessment to be a fallacy, taking readers into the rarely seen halls of a Jordanian public school the al-Khatwa High...
In 2005 the World Bank released a gender assessment of the nation of Jordan, a country that, like many in the Middle East, has undergone dramatic soci...
