Women Empowerment in the Middle East

In general, there is great discrimination that occurs between women and men. Women face barriers in every manner of work. Empowerment is done for a woman if she is capable of generating economic, social and political benefit to society as well as making decisions that influence not only her life but also the life of the society at large. A woman requires access and economic resources such as income and assets to be equal as well as a favorable environment that foster and give her support. Having such an enabling environment, a woman can display their abilities and utilize them for the benefit of her state. 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. Research has revealed that 66% of the world's work is done by women where they produce 50% of the food yet they have a low income, an estimate of 10% and the property they own is 1% (United Nations Development Fund for Women. They had the responsibility to harvest in the oases since many men were diving in Gulf waters during the season of pearling. Compared to men, women had more contact with their families, business owners as well as the merchants.

They carried trade activities whereby they shopped in markets, made negotiations with the traders as well as other tribal group members. After the boom of the oil era, women role changed. (Davidson and Makenzie Smith, 2008)Their role in economic as well as public activities was completely erased. This research paper presents a thematic assessment of the women status of leadership in the Middle East states. Drawing pieces of evidence and supports from the gender, management as well as literature from the Middle East, the paper focus on the obstacles that limit the advancement of the female gender as well as the women’s progress in public, politics and economic responsibilities. Women’s empowerment debate in the Middle States has been occurring recently.

Current management scholars have assessed the issues of gender within transitional regions or states. (Metcalfe and Afanasseiva, 2005). Although the employment laws interpretation is achieved by the Shar’ia and the urf law that targets the necessity to safeguard women and develop a better working environment. Reflecting on this, there are many limitations in employment legislation since it fails to cover sexual discrimination because this act is recognized as being fixed within the Shar’ia law. When focusing on the companies such as Qatar oil, Oman, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, they usually reinforce gender segregation through funding the educational facilities as well as sex separate offices. Through this work organization layout, there is much interference with women career options. (Moghadam, 2005). Other restrictions that are placed on women usually lowers their morbidity within their nation, for instance, Kuwait, Iraq, Jordan.

Women must also request for a permission from their guardian and husband to travel overseas. These cultural activities eventually result in sex-segregated occupations as well as sex-segregated workplaces. According to the recent research study carried out, the significance of Islam in social as well as organization influence examines the way in which the Hadith and Qur’an offer a moral framework that controls men and women behavior. Women and men, wellbeing achievement is a hidden philosophy in all human communications and activities. 1) Economic involvement and the power in decision making, its estimated by two main indicators- the opportunities of men and women in posts as managers, and senior officials in percentage as well as the opportunities of men and women in technical and professional posts in percentage.

2) Economic resources power as calculated by men’s and women earned capital estimates (3) Political involvement as well as decision making, as measured by the opportunities of men and women in parliamentary posts in percentage. 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. Women who are at work are confident in what they are doing, and they have a chance to make their own decisions. If females are equipped with rights of skills, jobs, knowledge, as well as education, the hidden potential in them will become activated, and their performance in the society will be excellent.