Jobs for Arab Women - what does freedom really mean?
It's an interesting way of looking at how freedom has changed in the Arab world but,the New York Times has tried to examine stewardesses working for some of the big airlines in the Middle East.
A decade ago, unmarried Arab women .., working outside their home countries, were rare. But just as young men from poor Arab nations flocked to the oil-rich ..Gulf states for jobs, more young women are doing so, sociologists say, though no official statistics are kept on how many.
And while the article appears to be factually correct, there is no discussion of other professions that Arab women have used to further themselves in society. And to an outsider,or someone not in the know the assumption is that a the furthest that a woman can go from being a housewife is to become a stewardess! I'm sure that is not what is intended. Nevertheless, the premise still holds that some women have changed their life through using the skies and the freedom associated with being a stewardess - that versus an option of not traveling or seeing the world.
An interesting article that could have been furthered by providing some exact data as well as looking at the wider impact of girl power in the Middle East. Whatever you think of the article, the debate seems to be hotting up.
In Booming Gulf, Some Arab Women Find Freedom in the Skies
A decade ago, unmarried Arab women .., working outside their home countries, were rare. But just as young men from poor Arab nations flocked to the oil-rich ..Gulf states for jobs, more young women are doing so, sociologists say, though no official statistics are kept on how many.
And while the article appears to be factually correct, there is no discussion of other professions that Arab women have used to further themselves in society. And to an outsider,or someone not in the know the assumption is that a the furthest that a woman can go from being a housewife is to become a stewardess! I'm sure that is not what is intended. Nevertheless, the premise still holds that some women have changed their life through using the skies and the freedom associated with being a stewardess - that versus an option of not traveling or seeing the world.
An interesting article that could have been furthered by providing some exact data as well as looking at the wider impact of girl power in the Middle East. Whatever you think of the article, the debate seems to be hotting up.
In Booming Gulf, Some Arab Women Find Freedom in the Skies
Labels: arab women, freedom for women, jobs in the Middl East, Stewardess jobs
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