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- Title
Reducing Poverty among Arab and Muslim Women: The Case of Arab Women in Israel.
- Authors
Jabareen, Yosef
- Abstract
The international experience suggests that work is the best way of lifting families out of poverty. Thus, this paper assumes that one crucial policy, among many others, aimed at poverty reduction is to increase the women's participation in the labour market and their access to decent work. This issue is critical among Arab and Muslim women around the world in general and among Arab women in Israel since the participation rate of women in the labour market is quite low and about 55% of the Arab families live under the poverty line. Therefore, this paper aims to identify the reasons behind the low rate of Arab female participation in the labor market, and based on that to propose a framework for increasing their participation rate and reducing povertyamong them and their households. An empirical study, based on 574 personal interviews, was conducted among unemployed Arab women in Israel. This paper identified four major domains that affect the level of employment participation: the socio-cultural domain, the ethno-political domain, the personal domain, and the spatial domain. Eventually, the paper proposes interference policies based on these domains in order to reduce poverty among Arab minority women in Israel.
- Subjects
ARAB women; ETHNIC conflict; LABOR market; MINORITY women; SOCIAL conditions of Muslim women; WOMEN'S employment; POVERTY reduction; SOCIAL conditions of women
- Publication
Journal of International Women's Studies, 2015, Vol 16, Issue 3, p117
- ISSN
1539-8706
- Publication type
Article