Hypothesizing Women’s Employment in 28 Muslim Countries

Abstract

In this chapter, the broader framework for understanding women’s employment is translated to more specific expectations on which micro-and macro-level factors might influence women’s paid, non-agricultural employment in Muslim countries, as visualized in Figure 4.1 and formalized into hypotheses (Section 4.8). By doing this, I will bring together theoretical expectations formulated in the fragmented literature on women’s employment in Muslim countries and reinterpret those in light of the framework presented in this book. The main focus in this chapter is on reunderstanding the possible effects of familiar factors. In Part III, the framework is applied to arrive at new explanations of employment and I explore context dependency more deeply.