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Transitions to Adulthood in the Middle East and North Africa

Young Women's Rising?

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  • © 2014

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Introduction

  2. Women in MENA Countries: Theory and Background

  3. Women’s Success and Failure in the Education System

  4. Housework or Wage Work? Young Women’s Transitions After Leaving Education

  5. Family Formation

  6. Conclusions and Discussions

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This book identifies chances and barriers women face in their transition to adulthood in Egypt, Iran, Jordan, and Syria. Adopting a life course perspective, it provides a new integrative micro-macro-theoretical framework and innovative analyses of individual life courses based on longitudinal data.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany

    Michael Gebel, Stefanie Heyne

About the authors

Michael Gebel is Full Professor of Methods of Empirical Social Research at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany. His main research interests include transitions to adulthood, youth unemployment and temporary employment, international comparative research, and quantitative methods.

Stefanie Heyne is Teaching and Research Associate at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany. Her main research interests are social inequality, labor market sociology, and women in society.

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