Increasing the Number of Working Women
A Beirut Conference Challenges Companies to Hire More Women
The Arab labor market simply does not prize women, a Beirut conference heard from a European Commission representative. The conference, which aims to highlight gains in a program to increase women’s economic participation in the Arab world, instead has been lamenting the difficulties social workers have had in pushing the program forward. Only a quarter of the work force in the Arab world is women.
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