This policy brief proposes and recommends further policies to urgently, strengthen the current quest for empowering women and for reducing inequality in the Mediterranean countries and specifically in Egypt. It seeks to provide a policy-mix for additional policies that also contribute in...

This research deals with female labor force participation and its determinants in the Egyptian society using the "Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey" (ELMPS) 2012. More precisely, the paper studies the individual, households and community determinants of the Egyptian woman's decision to enter the...

This paper examines the contextual and community-level determinants of multidimensional women's empowerment in Egypt, while accounting for the usual individual and household level factors typically included in studies of women's empowerment. The paper analyzes two dimensions of women's...

This research deals with women's empowerment as an outcome of interest by defining the different individual and socio-demographic determinants that affect women's empowerment in the Egyptian society. The paper analyzed two dimensions of women's empowerment; the decision-making and the mobility...

Egyptian women have played an unprecedented role in the Arab Spring democratic movement, possibly changing women's perception about their own rights and role. We question whether these events have translated into better outcomes within Egyptian households. We conjecture that potential changes...

Women in the MENA region are economically and socially disempowered. High youth unemployment rates together with discriminatory social norms drive them to limit their investment in human capital. We evaluate a large-scale intervention attempting to relax human capital constraints for women by...