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Gender and Development in the Arab World: Women's Economic Participation

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This book consists of a series of articles about the labor force participation of women in the Arab world. An introductory chapter by Moghadam is surprisingly weak since it considers primarily economic and demographic influences on women and work without giving serious consideration to cultural and societal factors. Many of the early chapters share this weakness, but the chapter on Yemen by Helen Lackner begins to take cultural factors into consideration and the chapter by Hussein Shakhatreh on Jordan is excellent. The chapter by Samih Boustani and Nada Mufarrej on Lebanon reports some hard-to-find data, but misses a key potential influence, the involvement of men in the conflict and the consequent increased need for women in the paid labor market. Informative charts summarizing data from the UNDP are also included.