ISBN:
978-1-137-35555-3
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
XII, 248 S.
,
graph. Darst.
Ausgabe:
1. publ.
DDC:
305.42
Schlagwort(e):
Mittlerer Osten Nordafrika
;
Ägypten
;
Iran
;
Syrien
;
Jordanien
;
Frau
;
Erwachsener
;
Jugend
;
Soziale Bedingungen
;
Langzeitstudie
;
Erziehung
;
Arbeit
;
Gleichheit
;
Frauenforschung
Kurzfassung:
This book offers new insights on young women's situation in the Middle East and Northern Africa. Adopting a life course perspective Gebel and Heyne develop a general micro-macro theoretical framework for understanding the chances and barriers young women face in their most crucial life period, namely the transition to adulthood. Drawing on large-scale individual-level longitudinal data from Egypt, Iran, Jordan, and Syria, the authors describe the incidence, timing, and characteristics of central transitions in the education system, the transition from education to work and family formation. They find that there is no standard pathway to adulthood, yet rather a great variety of individual early life courses inducing a high level of social inequality among young women. The book identifies a set of individual-level, familial, and contextual factors that hinder or pave young women's way in the different life domains and shows strong interrelationships between early life course conditions and transitions.
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
1. Introduction PART I: WOMEN IN MENA COUNTRIES: THEORY AND BACKGROUND 2. A Micro-macro Theory of Young Women's Transition to Adulthood 3. The Context of Case Studies: Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Iran in Comparison 4. Data and Methodology PART II: WOMEN'S SUCCESS AND FAILURE IN THE EDUCATION SYSTEM 5. Education Failures? The Problem of Limited Access to Education and Early Dropout Among Young Women 6. The Determinants of Young Women's Access to Higher Education PART III: HOUSEWORK OR WAGE WORK? YOUNG WOMEN'S TRANSITIONS AFTER LEAVING EDUCATION 7. Back Home: Young Women's Transition from School to Inactivity 8. Stiff Competition for Privileged Jobs: Young Women's Transition from School to Work 9. A Polarized World of Female Employment? The Quality of First Employment PART IV: FAMILY FORMATION 10. Young Women's Transition to Marriage and Household Formation in Difficult Times 11. Completing the Pathway: The Transition to First Birth PART V: CONCLUSIONS AND DISCUSSIONS 12. Ways to Social Integration of Women in MENA
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