Egyptian Female Labor Force Participation and the Future of Economic Empowerment

Type Book Section - Trends in Egyptian Female Participation in Labor Force
Title Egyptian Female Labor Force Participation and the Future of Economic Empowerment
Author(s)
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2018
Page numbers 29-44
Publisher Springer
URL https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-59644-0_3
Abstract
This chapter presents labor force features in Egypt during the last three decades to figure out the improvement in female participation in labor force, using descriptive analysis in addition to working life tables to provide main measures.

It presents trends in labor force by sex, employed and unemployed persons by sex, distribution of employed persons by industry and by occupation, the pattern of age-specific activity rates by sex, Gender equality in labor force in Egypt, the average remaining number of years of active life in the labor force at a given age by sex, accession to labor force by sex, Separations from the labor force due to retirement by sex, and Replacement in labor force by sex.

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