Document Type
Working Paper
Publication Date
2003
Abstract
This paper explores young working women’s perceptions of marriage and work in contemporary Egypt at a time when an increase in age at marriage was evident from national survey data. Data from two nationally representative labor surveys, the Labor Force Sample Survey of 1988 and the Egypt Labor Market Survey of 1998, show that working conditions and employment opportunities declined significantly for young women even as their educational attainment increased. Indepth interviews were conducted with young women working in a range of salaried jobs in three locations: a rural village in Mansoura, a periurban district near Cairo, and in the industrial zone of Port Said. The qualitative data indicate that young women have high expectations in terms of marital living standards that they seek to achieve by saving intensively before marriage and by enlisting help from their families.
DOI
10.31899/pgy6.1075
Language
Arabic
Recommended Citation
Amin, Sajeda and Nagah Hassan Al Bassusi. 2003. "Wage work and marriage: Perspectives of Egyptian working women," Policy Research Division Working Paper no. 171 [Arabic]. New York: Population Council.
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