Women empowerment by the state government

Having that there is similar global concern that men and women share, there is a necessity to assess political processes and socio-cultural specificities which structure organization and social systems as well as their effect on women opportunities in leadership and obstacles. Having a clear display that Middle East women lacks representation in the senior leadership positions it is necessary to make a review on the social status of Middle East for the purpose of gaining the actual image of this state. Is there any necessity for empowering women in a state? if there is, is the middle East State government concerned in empowering women? The Middle East importance in the economy of many nations and the Middle East states necessity to come up with new markets have resulted to gender being an outstanding case and positioned the empowerment of women in policy matters of state governments.

Since women empowerment in a state is directly proportional to economic and political development, the Middle East states government should take a step to push forward this ideology. The Middle East states governments need to support and take action to empower female gender to realize political, social as well as economic benefits generated by women. Multiple women population has been engaged in forced labor and treatment is not equal to that of men. Therefore their earnings are fewer as well as opportunities for their development when compared to men. Many years back, societies have tried to make progress while giving no rights to women. The investments done to a woman can be regarded as a smart thing rather than the right thing. For a society to grow socially, economically and politically, state of women should be remodeled.

It was also noted that most private sector corporations involved more men in the recruitment for their leadership responsibilities compared to women. Another study done investigating HRD relationship, as well as gender diversification in the Middle East, found that the issues of diversity or equal chances failed to constitute the section of general HRD protocols because equality was recognized to be composed within the Islamic Shari'a guidelines (ILO, 1998; Metcalfe, 2007). According to the society, the primary role of a woman is being a mother and a homemaker and for the man is to safeguard and offer support to the wife and the entire family. Due to this case women are limited to family issues, therefore, they are known to rely on men legally, socially as well as financially (World Bank 2003b: 9). Moreover, a code of modesty has been revealed to women reputation and dignity that has restrictions on men and women interactions.

Women involvement rate in the workplace seems to be greater in the nations with plenty of labor and relatively minimal resources as well. This is most common with oil-rich nations that are involved with the supply of natural resources. In countries such as Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar women involvement is great and therefore the level of women employment is also high. The different commitment in fashioning work relations and gender is best summarized by going through the conditions of the Arabic nations that are registered to the convention of the United Nations CEDAW1. Out of 22 Arab nations, 16 of them have made a formal consent to CEDAW, however, a number of them have made reservations to the social rights and status for women. There is an advancement made by women in the Middle East in political and leadership roles and they have committed themselves to cultural as well as social change.

Conclusion Making invests in the empowerment of women creates a way for poverty eradication. When a large number of women work, state's economies grow – therefore making the issue of women empowerment a national issue, builds nation property. The societal women empowerment is offering various rights, for instance, education, health, skills as well as job opportunities which eradicates poverty. Currently, if the state's government is not investing in women in most cases, they have to pay for it, and this will mostly result to slow growth of the economy. D. Gender and human resource management in the Middle East.  The International Journal of Human Resource Management,18(1), 54-74. doi:10. Metcalfe, B. K.  Trade, investment, and development in the Middle East and North Africa: Engaging with the world. Washington, D. C. World Bank.