The Employment Crisis of Female Graduates in Egypt: An Ethnographic Account,9789774248467

The Employment Crisis of Female Graduates in Egypt: An Ethnographic Account

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ISBN13: 9789774248467
ISBN10: 9774248465
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-03-30
Publisher(s): Amer Univ in Cairo Pr
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Summary

This study argues that the labor market favors graduates who speak foreign languages and have the style and disposition of the elite, a preference that puts female graduates without these qualifications at a disadvantage -- they have to either make do with less rewarding jobs in small-scale firms or stay at home. The aim of this study is to document how this subtle process of exclusion takes place and how less privileged female graduates strategize their options to fit with the structure of the labor market.

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS v
TRANSLITERATION AND GLOSSARY vi
CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION 1(10)
"Less Privileged Graduates"
3(3)
Female Graduates
6(1)
Methodology
7(2)
Organization of the Study
9(2)
CHAPTER TWO: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVE 11(12)
Education and Social Mobility
11(2)
Social Reproduction
13(1)
Cultural Reproduction
14(2)
Segmentary Labor Market Theory
16(2)
Capital
18(5)
CHAPTER THREE: ROLE OF EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM IN EGYPT 23(18)
A Historical Prism
24(10)
Quality and Inequality
34(7)
CHAPTER FOUR: JOBS FOR "WILAD AL-NAS" 41(19)
The Valorized Capital
42(13)
The Attitude Problem of the "Others"
55(3)
Conclusion
58(2)
CHAPTER FIVE: GRADUATES' VOICES: THE BOTTOM-UP 60(16)
The Ladder of Possibilities
61(3)
What Is Wrong with the Private Sector
64(9)
Labor Regulations, Says the Book
73(3)
CHAPTER SIX: STRATEGIZING OPTIONS AND NEGOTIATING WITH THE SYSTEM 76(19)
Why Is a Government Job a Panacea?
77(6)
"Warta": Agency in the Negation of Agency
83(4)
The "Choice" of Staying at Home
87(3)
Attempts to Beat the System
90(5)
CHAPTER SEVEN: EDUCATION IN RETROSPECT 95(13)
Education for the Poor
96(8)
In Retrospect
104(1)
The Process of Elimination
105(3)
CHAPTER EIGHT: CONCLUSION 108(5)
WORKS CITED 113(8)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR 121

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