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Women Empowerment in UAE: A Systematic Review

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Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Systems and Informatics 2020 (AISI 2020)

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Abstract

Women in the UAE have long been recognized as equal partners in national development and many efforts were taken to pursue empowering women in cultural, social, and economic fields. This systematic review is distinctive; that it synthesizes research on the influence of different factors affecting women leadership/entrepreneurship positions in the UAE. It aims to investigate the key factors affecting the female entrepreneurs and leaders, and to develop a conceptual model on the principal social and cultural factors inducing the success of Emirati women in attaining senior leadership roles or leading entrepreneurs. Moreover, this study proposes a set of new directions for future research venues to address the current dearth of empirical work on women’s leadership in the UAE, despite all the empowering programs and initiatives. It includes articles using quantitative and qualitative methods from different databases like ProQuest and EBSCO. The study reviews databases and selects many high-quality articles to be reviewed using a set of inclusion and exclusion criteria. 23 articles were chosen after removing the duplicated ones. From a practical perspective, this study is important while it summarizes and evaluates all factors affecting women empowering in leadership roles and tries to offer a proper model for a large number of women empowerment drivers within the UAE setting.

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  1. University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE

    Asma Omran Al Khayyal & Muhammad Alshurideh

  2. Faculty of Business, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan

    Muhammad Alshurideh

  3. Amman Arab University, Amman, Jordan

    Barween Al Kurdi

  4. Research Institute of Sciences and Engineering, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE

    Said A. Salloum

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  1. Faculty of Computers and Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology Department, and Chair of the Scientific Research Group in Egypt, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

    Aboul Ella Hassanien

  2. Department of Electronics and Computer Science, Koszalin University of Technology, Koszalin, Poland

    Adam Slowik

  3. Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, VŠB-Technical University of Ostrava, Ostrava-Poruba, Moravskoslezsky, Czech Republic

    Václav Snášel

  4. Rector of the Electronic Research Institute, Cairo, Egypt

    Hisham El-Deeb

  5. Faculty of computers and information, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

    Fahmy M. Tolba

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Al Khayyal, A.O., Alshurideh, M., Al Kurdi, B., Salloum, S.A. (2021). Women Empowerment in UAE: A Systematic Review. In: Hassanien, A.E., Slowik, A., Snášel, V., El-Deeb, H., Tolba, F.M. (eds) Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Systems and Informatics 2020. AISI 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1261. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58669-0_66

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