The Employment Crisis of Female Graduates in Egypt - An Ethnographic Account

This study argues that the labor market favors graduates who speak foreign languages and have the style and disposition of the elite, a preference that puts female graduates without these qualifications at a disadvantage - they have to either make do with less rewarding jobs in small-scale firms or stay at home. The aim of this study is to document how this subtle process of exclusion takes place and how less privileged female graduates strategize their options to fit with the structure of the labor market. Cairo Papers Vol. 25, no. 3.

Summary

This study argues that the labor market favors graduates who speak foreign languages and have the style and disposition of the elite, a preference that puts female graduates without these qualifications at a disadvantage. Cairo Papers Vol. 25, no. 3.

Product details

• Authors: Ghada F Barsoum, Ghada F. Barsoum
• Publisher: American university pr cairo
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2004
• EAN: 9789774248467
• ISBN: 978-977-424-846-7
• No. of pages: 96
• Series: Cairo Papers in Social Science
• Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Women in Business