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Gender Inequalities In The Middle East

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Evidence through collecting data has provided us with the conclusion that women businesses tend to be of a smaller size of employees in comparison to men led businesses. Women entrepreneurs are viewed as less likely to control a large business and Egyptian men do not favor working for women and vice versa.

Another factor that affects the size of the business is the capital invested in the business which affects the number of labor directly, the larger the business the higher the number of labor and vice versa. Women owned business are usually informal, services oriented, gender specific and usually located in rural areas, which directly affects again the size of the business. (El Mahdi, 2013).

Surveys performed in 2011 reflected that most of the businesses are concentrated in urban areas especially in cities and also upper and lower Egypt. Women owned business are located more in Lower Egypt around 37.7% in comparison with Upper Egypt 18.5% which is consisted with the distribution of population in Egypt. Men businesses in comparison are of higher concentration in Upper Egypt 34% in comparison with Lower Egypt at 27.6%, which is explained by availability of financing of businesses.

2.9 Status of formality and gender inequality
Formality or informality of any business depends on the degree of legal procedures, registration, tax card and …show more content…

(GEM, Global Report 2012). The second source of statistics is the World Bank survey, which concentrates on the economic situation and the barriers or constraints that affects the growth and profitability of the businesses and according to this survey the number of women entrepreneurs of formal business are very

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