Women At Work In The Gulf [Hardcover]

Fakhro (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; 1St Edition edition (January 10, 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0710303378
• ISBN-13: 978-0710303370
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.7 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,667,975 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #54 in Books > History > Middle East > Bahrain

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3.0 out of 5 stars Dated but informative, May 19, 2000

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This review is from: Women At Work In The Gulf (Hardcover)

This book, which "grew out of" the author's 1983-86 dissertation, presents some hard-to-find demographic data about working women in Bahrain (although the data are a little dated at this point). The author begins by describing how Bahrain came to import foreign labor. She then suggests that one way to decrease the number of foreign workers in the country would be to bring more Bahraini women into the workforce to replace foreign workers. The latter part of the book, chapters 4-7, present the outline of a plan how this could be accomplished through developing day care systems and improving education and vocational training for women. Personally, I wasn't completely convinced that the system of day care development that she advocates would be appropriate for the situation in the Gulf. The book was written before Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, so it is mildly interesting in a historical aspect in that a reader can garner a flavor of pre-invasion attitudes within Gulf society concerning gender and the role of government.