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- Title
Kinship, Islam, or Oil: Culprits of Gender Inequality?
- Authors
Charrad, Mounira M.
- Abstract
The article explores the gender inequality in the Muslim Middle East. It notes that the gender discrimination such as the lower participation of women in the paid labor force in the Muslim region has emerged to be an important topic in the international scene. It states that Islamic doctrine cannot be a culprit of gender equality because original texts of the religious scriptures showed favoring women's rights. The author mentions the argument of author Michael Ross that oil is to blame since an oil-based economy focuses on nontraded goods that led to a lower number of women in the paid labor force. The author adds that kin-based solidarities, a form of kinship that depends on bonds among men, as another factor that contributes to gender inequality in the Muslim world.
- Subjects
MIDDLE East; SEX discrimination against women; GENDER inequality; SOCIAL conditions of Muslim women; WOMEN'S rights; LABOR supply; WOMEN employees; ISLAMIC theology; NONTRADED goods; KINSHIP (Islamic law); ROSS, Michael L.
- Publication
Politics & Gender, 2009, Vol 5, Issue 4, p546
- ISSN
1743-923X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S1743923X09990353