Gender Segregation in Occupation and Education in Kosovo

Type Journal Article - Academic Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies
Title Gender Segregation in Occupation and Education in Kosovo
Author(s)
Volume 4
Issue 2
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2015
Page numbers 511-518
URL http://www.mcser.org/journal/index.php/ajis/article/viewFile/7200/6901
Abstract
Inequality in labor market in Kosovo is persistent; the level of unemployment is highest in Europe. Unemployment rate is 35,1%
and from this the level of unemployment for females is higher than males, with the highest level among females with low
educational qualifications, primary and secondary and for unskilled. The aim of this paper is to present the level of segregation
in education and also in occupation in Kosovo among the working population considering gender. Although there is an
increasing level of females entering and finishing the education in each levels of education a gap between genders is still
noticeable. The segregation in enrolment and graduation for females is still very concentrated in faculties of philosophy,
philology, education, economics and medicine. Occupational segregation has the important role in gender inequality since it
reduces the opportunities for females to be more concentrated to the jobs that are in the higher scale of the economy, we find
that the main concentration of female employment are in education health and caring activities about 40 % of employed women
are in these sector’s which is similar with other regional countries. Kosovo has also highest level of inactivity among the
working force population from the latest LFS almost two-thirds of Kosovo’s population is of working age (15-64 years). Of those
who are working age, 63.1% are not economically active. Activity and employment rates tend to increase with education for
both men and women.

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