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What's Holding Back Gender Equality in the MENA Region?
Hannah Bargawi (SOAS)
This podcast is a recording of the Second SOAS Economics Alumni Lecture on "What's Holding Back Gender Equality in the Labour Market in the Middle East and North Africa?"
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have placed gender equality firmly on the international development agenda. SDG 8 aims to achieve, by 2030, full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, and equal pay for work of equal value. One region that persistently under-performs in this regard, is the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), where women's economic participation remains highly unequal when compared to men and to other regions. This talk will expose the extent of the gender gap in labour markets in the MENA region and discuss the potential reasons and solutions for this phenomenon. This research is linked to a ESRC Global Challenges Research Fund funded network of researchers that are investigating the Dynamics of Gender Inequality in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia.
Speaker biography:
Dr. Bargawi is Senior Lecturer in Economics at SOAS University of London. She teaches courses in Gender Economics and in Development Economics and is herself an alumnus of SOAS, having completed her Masters and PhD at SOAS. Her recent research focuses on issues of gender and work in the Middle East and in Europe. She is a co-Investigator on the GCRF/ESRC Strategic Network entitled Dynamics of Gender Inequality in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia (GCRF, 2017-2018) and recently co-edited a volume entitled Economics and Austerity in Europe: Gendered Impacts and Sustainable Alternatives, published by Routledge.
Dr. Bargawi also works on East Africa where her research interests span gender, employment, macroeconomic policies and agriculture. Together with Dr. Elisa Van Waeyenberge, she recently completed an Employment Diagnostic Assessment for the International Labour Organisation and the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development in Uganda.
Speakers: Baroness Valerie Amos CH. (SOAS Director), Hannah Bargawi (SOAS)
Event Date: 27 March 2018
Released by: SOAS Economics Podcast
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Hannah Bargawi (SOAS)
This podcast is a recording of the Second SOAS Economics Alumni Lecture on "What's Holding Back Gender Equality in the Labour Market in the Middle East and North Africa?"
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have placed gender equality firmly on the international development agenda. SDG 8 aims to achieve, by 2030, full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, and equal pay for work of equal value. One region that persistently under-performs in this regard, is the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), where women's economic participation remains highly unequal when compared to men and to other regions. This talk will expose the extent of the gender gap in labour markets in the MENA region and discuss the potential reasons and solutions for this phenomenon. This research is linked to a ESRC Global Challenges Research Fund funded network of researchers that are investigating the Dynamics of Gender Inequality in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia.
Speaker biography:
Dr. Bargawi is Senior Lecturer in Economics at SOAS University of London. She teaches courses in Gender Economics and in Development Economics and is herself an alumnus of SOAS, having completed her Masters and PhD at SOAS. Her recent research focuses on issues of gender and work in the Middle East and in Europe. She is a co-Investigator on the GCRF/ESRC Strategic Network entitled Dynamics of Gender Inequality in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia (GCRF, 2017-2018) and recently co-edited a volume entitled Economics and Austerity in Europe: Gendered Impacts and Sustainable Alternatives, published by Routledge.
Dr. Bargawi also works on East Africa where her research interests span gender, employment, macroeconomic policies and agriculture. Together with Dr. Elisa Van Waeyenberge, she recently completed an Employment Diagnostic Assessment for the International Labour Organisation and the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development in Uganda.
Speakers: Baroness Valerie Amos CH. (SOAS Director), Hannah Bargawi (SOAS)
Event Date: 27 March 2018
Released by: SOAS Economics Podcast