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Women Who Stopped Working Due to Their Husband’s Opposition in Egypt

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  • Iparraguirre Jose Louis
  • Hadi Zeina Amr Hosny Zaki Mohamed Abdel

    (Ms Faculty of Business Administration, German International University of Applied Sciences, Cairo, Egypt)

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This paper investigates a neglected reason underlying the low female labor participation rates in Egypt: husbands’ opposition. We find that opposition falls with increasing levels of educational attainment and chronological age of the husband. Age at first marriage, religious affiliation, wealth, and the extent to which a husband upholds traditional views regarding the participation of women in the labor market and gender equality in general were not significant. We also report an inverse relationship between the likelihood of husband’s opposition and the number of children in the household, which suggests that financial considerations may outstrip normative considerations.

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  • Iparraguirre Jose Louis & Hadi Zeina Amr Hosny Zaki Mohamed Abdel, 2024. "Women Who Stopped Working Due to Their Husband’s Opposition in Egypt," Review of Middle East Economics and Finance, De Gruyter, vol. 20(1), pages 1-43, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:bpj:rmeecf:v:20:y:2024:i:1:p:1-43:n:1
    DOI: 10.1515/rmeef-2023-0011
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    Keywords

    labour supply; Egypt; female participation;
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    JEL classification:

    • D13 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Household Production and Intrahouse Allocation
    • E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
    • J01 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - General - - - Labor Economics: General
    • J2 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor

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