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Comment on “Funding Pain: Bedouin Women and Political Economy in the Naqab/Negev”

Comment on “Funding Pain: Bedouin Women and Political Economy in the Naqab/Negev” Feminist Economics, 2015 Vol. 21, No. 4, 197–200, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13545701.2015.1074263 COMMENT AND REPLY COMMENT ON “FUNDING PAIN:BEDOUIN WOMEN AND POLITICAL ECONOMY IN THE NAQAB/NEGEV” Robert Cherry KEYWORDS Affirmation action, economic development, employment JEL Classification: J15, J1, J16 THE REAL SITUATION OF BEDOUIN WOMEN This is a response to claims made by Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Antonina Griecci Woodsum, Himmat Zu’bi, and Rachel Busbridge (2014) in this journal that patriarchal constraints have little to do with the low employment rates of Bedouin women and that their communities suffer from sustained government neglect. Large families are the norm among Bedouins compared to the other Arab communities, with the typical family having at least five children. According to Sarab Abu-Rabia-Queder: Bedouin women’s primary role of reproduction ... restricts their ability to be perceived as morally equal to men. ... Many Bedouin women have only restricted access to the public sphere, especially to education and employment. To this day, many girls do not attend school because their families are afraid they will bring shame to the tribe by meeting boys from other tribes (2007:72). The only opportunity many less-educated Arab women have is to work first in the local enclave economy where they are likely to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Feminist Economics Taylor & Francis

Comment on “Funding Pain: Bedouin Women and Political Economy in the Naqab/Negev”

Cherry, Robert
Feminist Economics , Volume 21 (4): 4 – Oct 2, 2015
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Feminist Economics, 2015 Vol. 21, No. 4, 197–200, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13545701.2015.1074263 COMMENT AND REPLY COMMENT ON “FUNDING PAIN:BEDOUIN WOMEN AND POLITICAL ECONOMY IN THE NAQAB/NEGEV” Robert Cherry KEYWORDS Affirmation action, economic development, employment JEL Classification: J15, J1, J16 THE REAL SITUATION OF BEDOUIN WOMEN This is a response to claims made by Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Antonina Griecci Woodsum, Himmat Zu’bi, and Rachel Busbridge (2014) in this journal that patriarchal constraints have little to do with the low employment rates of Bedouin women and that their communities suffer from sustained government neglect. Large families are the norm among Bedouins compared to the other Arab communities, with the typical family having at least five children. According to Sarab Abu-Rabia-Queder: Bedouin women’s primary role of reproduction ... restricts their ability to be perceived as morally equal to men. ... Many Bedouin women have only restricted access to the public sphere, especially to education and employment. To this day, many girls do not attend school because their families are afraid they will bring shame to the tribe by meeting boys from other tribes (2007:72). The only opportunity many less-educated Arab women have is to work first in the local enclave economy where they are likely to

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Published: Oct 2, 2015

Keywords: Affirmation action; economic development; employment; J15; J1; J16

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