Women’s Labor Force Participation in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq : A Study of Social and Psychological Barriers (English)

Women’s labor force participation in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq is very low, at 14 percent. This paper investigates a number of social and psychological barriers to participation, using recent methods in the measurement of social norms and cultural beliefs and primary data collected from all three governorates. Furthermore, since greater growth in employment generation is expected in the private sector, the paper explores women and men’s perceptions...
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Iman,Sen; Afif,Zeina; Gauri,Varun; Mohamed,Gohdar.

Women’s Labor Force Participation in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq : A Study of Social and Psychological Barriers (English). Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 10028; eMBeD brief Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099728304282234440

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