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Promoting Women's Economic Activity In Lebanon And Other Arab Countries
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of a lecture given by Dr. Huda Zurayk at the SecondNational Conference for Demographic Policies, organized bythe Lebanon Family Planning Association, 1-3 April 1982. Seeelsewhere in this issue.
... Al Raida Journal Vol. 42, Issue 2, 2018pp 86-112 F In 1982, Al-Raida presented extracts from a presentation by Huda Zurayk (1982) at the Second National Conference for Demographic Policies, organized by the Lebanon Family Planning Association in April 1982. In these two extracts, Zurayk calls for a nuanced understanding of women's work in the home and in rural economic activities. ...
... "An evaluation of women's participation in economic development," she argued, "requires the provision of accurate information about it, which is generally defective in the Arab world." The lack of statistical data illustrated how women's domestic activities and work in the home were overlooked and undervalued (Zurayk, 1982). Furthermore, "in collecting data about working women, those who do irregular vii work are often omitted; when the husband answers for his wife he often refuses to recognize her extra work in and outside the home" (Zurayk, 1982). ...
... The lack of statistical data illustrated how women's domestic activities and work in the home were overlooked and undervalued (Zurayk, 1982). Furthermore, "in collecting data about working women, those who do irregular vii work are often omitted; when the husband answers for his wife he often refuses to recognize her extra work in and outside the home" (Zurayk, 1982). Zurayk argued that survey questionnaires must be revised to include women who did irregular work. ...
This article is a feminist history of Al-Raida, a Lebanese feminist journal launched in 1976 by the Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World at the Lebanese American University. The article outlines the journal’s role in the foundation of modern Lebanese feminist discourse, and in particular traces the dominant strand of discourse on development during the journal’s first decade. By situating this strand within both dominant and local historical contexts, the article analyzes the ways in which the journal positioned arguments for development, presented research studies, and employed methodologies in order to forge solutions to Arab women’s issues while maintaining international visibility through the use of normative and transnational language.
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