Abstract
When we started our research into Palestinian women’s employment in Israel several years ago, very few people, either in academia or outside, were interested. In sociology, Israeli researchers were concerned with comparing either Mizrahim and Ashkenazim, or Palestinian and Jewish men. But Palestinian women were not very present in the labor market, and it was therefore easy to ignore them. Following a very slow and long upward trend that started in the 1960s, labor force participation rate of Palestinian women in the beginning of the twenty-first century was about 20 percent, a very low figure compared with the much higher labor force participation of Jewish women (Yonay and Kraus 2009).
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Palestinians in the Israeli Labor Market |
| Subtitle of host publication | A Multi-disciplinary Approach |
| Editors | Nabil Khattab, Sami Miaari |
| Place of Publication | New York |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Chapter | 4 |
| Pages | 87-109 |
| Number of pages | 23 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-137-33645-3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2013 |
Keywords
- Muslim Woman
- Jewish Woman
- Arab Woman
- Academic Woman
- Christian Woman
