ISBN:
9781137355553
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (261 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Transitions to Adulthood in the Middle East and North Africa : Young Women's Rising?
DDC:
305.42
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Abstract:
This book identifies chances and barriers women face in their transition to adulthood in Egypt, Iran, Jordan, and Syria. Adopting a life course perspective, it provides a new integrative micro-macro-theoretical framework and innovative analyses of individual life courses based on longitudinal data.
Abstract:
〈p 〉This book identifies chances and barriers women face in their transition to adulthood in Egypt, Iran, Jordan, and Syria. Adopting a life course perspective, it provides a new integrative micro-macro-theoretical framework and innovative analyses of individual life courses based on longitudinal data
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; Young women's rising?; A life course perspective: The transition to adulthood; Research design: A life course approach; Research questions and aims of the book; Outline of the book; Part I: Women in MENA Countries: Theory and Background; 2 A Micro-Macro Theory of Young Women's Transition to Adulthood; Individual agency; Linked lives; The social embeddedness of individual life courses; The interrelation of life course events
Description / Table of Contents:
3 The Context of Case Studies: Egypt, Iran, Jordan, and Syria in ComparisonState, development, and economic policy; Religion, ethnicity, and culture; Educational expansion and the education system; Labor market structure and institutions; Family regimes; 4 Data and Methodology; Data sets; Analytical samples; Dependent variables and methods; Independent variables; 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; Educational attainment and early dropout in a life course perspective
Description / Table of Contents:
The extent of non-enrollment and early dropoutNon-enrollment in Egypt; The phenomenon of early dropout in Egypt, Iran, Jordan,and Syria; Conclusions; 6 The Determinants of Young Women's Access to Higher Education; Access to higher education in a life course perspective; Transitions to higher levels of education; Determinants of access to higher levels of education; The roles of tutoring and failure in basic education in success in the education system; Reasons for stopping education; Specialization and field of study; Conclusions
Description / Table of Contents:
Part III: Housework or Wage Work? Young Women's Transitions After Leaving Education7 Back Home: Young Women's Transition from School to Inactivity; Theory: The determinants of labor market inactivity; Overall incidence of and reasons for inactivity; The determinants of female labor market inactivity; Attitudes to women's role in the spheres of workand family; The characteristics of housework; Conclusions; 8 Stiff Competition for Privileged Jobs: Young Women's Transition from School to Work; Theory: The transition from school to work; Research design; Job search duration
Description / Table of Contents:
Determinants of job search durationHow to find a first job: The role of 'wasta'; Conclusions; 9 A Polarized World of Female Employment? The Quality of First Employment; Theory: The segmented labor market; Description of different kinds of first employment; The quality of first jobs; Education qualifications and job type; Conclusions; Part IV Family Formation; 10 Young Women's Transition to Marriage and Household Formation in Difficult Times; Theory: The determinants of marriage behavior; Finding the right partner; The timing of marriage in the early life course
Description / Table of Contents:
The determinants of marriage timing
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