{"id":163620,"date":"2018-09-17T13:57:04","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T13:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&p=163620"},"modified":"2018-09-21T11:45:17","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T15:45:17","slug":"world-bank-releases-new-report-enhancing-job-opportunities-for-skilled-palestinian-women-press-release","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/world-bank-releases-new-report-enhancing-job-opportunities-for-skilled-palestinian-women-press-release\/","title":{"rendered":"World Bank Releases New Report: Enhancing Job Opportunities For Skilled Palestinian Women – Press Release"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arabic: \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a\u0629<\/a><\/p>\n

Ramallah, September 17, 2018 –<\/b>\u00a0A new report\u00a0Enhancing Job Opportunities for Skilled Women in the Palestinian territories<\/a>\u00a0highlights the constrains to labor market entry in the face of Palestinian women, and provides recommendations going forward. The report, co-funded by the World Bank and Norway Representative Office to the Palestinian Territories, was discussed today at a workshop in the presence of Palestinian ministries, private sector and female entrepreneurs, academia, NGOs and donor representatives.<\/p>\n

The Palestinian territories suffer from limited job creation with stubbornly high unemployment rate, hitting particularly the youth and women. A striking feature of the labor market is the significantly higher rate of unemployment among skilled women (47 percent) relative to skilled men (18 percent), despite entering the labor force in comparable numbers and facing same constraining environment. Furthermore, high-skilled women are more likely to be unemployed than low-skilled women.<\/p>\n

\u201cWomen today represent half of the world\u2019s working-age population, and more than half of the world\u2019s university students,<\/i>\u201d said\u00a0Lynne Sherburne-Benz, World Bank Director for Social Protection and Jobs<\/b>. \u201cPolicies and labor regulations should be adjusted to ensure women\u2019s ability to access and compete in the labor market. The role of the private sector is also critical, and employers have to commit to hire women and pay them equal wages to men for the same work.<\/i>\u201d<\/p>\n

Skilled women make up the bulk of the Palestinian female labor force. If employment barriers are reduced, and women have more access to jobs, the results on welfare and stability in a fragile context will be reflected in better living conditions for the Palestinian households, and for the Palestinian economy.<\/p>\n

Skilled females are readily available human capital with the potential to spur economic growth and contribute directly to productivity, said\u00a0Hilde Haraldstad, Representative of the Office of Norway to the Palestinian Authority<\/b>.\u00a0\u201cWe commend the Palestinian efforts to advance women\u2019s rights at the national level. It is also crucial to see the impact of policy initiatives on the ground. Getting women into the workforce, with equal opportunities and equal pay, is good for the economy.<\/i>\u201d<\/p>\n

The report recognizes the protracted period of slow economic growth amid years of political instability and restrictions on access and mobility. However, the report makes a set of recommendations that can be implemented to improve employment and earning outcomes for skilled women. Among them, the report encourages measures to ease entrepreneurship constraints, particularly in microwork and online freelancing that will allow access to regional and global market from home. It supports strengthening labor market intermediation services and programs to match skills demand with skills supply. It also recommends legislative reforms that are important to reduce gender-based bias in sectors and occupations, and to maintain incentives to hire women (paid maternity leave, affordable child care).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Arabic: \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a\u0629 Ramallah, September 17, 2018 –\u00a0A new report\u00a0Enhancing Job Opportunities for Skilled Women in the Palestinian territories\u00a0highlights the constrains to labor market entry in the face of Palestinian women, and provides recommendations going forward. The report, co-funded by the World Bank and Norway Representative Office to the Palestinian Territories, was discussed today at a […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"template-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[1029],"document-category":[2437,1329],"document-source":[4798,1957],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1937,2097,1841],"entity":[1985,1729],"document-language":[6544,6542],"class_list":["post-163620","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","country-norway","document-category-arabic-text","document-category-press-release","document-source-state","document-source-world-bank","document-subject-economic-issues","document-subject-social-issues","document-subject-women","entity-state","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-arabic","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/163620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/163620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=163620"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=163620"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=163620"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=163620"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=163620"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=163620"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=163620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}