One in three young Arab women are unemployed in the Middle East, compared with eight out of 10 young men, a new study has found.
The research, which surveyed 7,670 young adults aged 23 to 29 across 22 Arab countries, said women in the region continue to be held back by cultural and constitutional constraints, despite many being well-educated.
The findings are based on a new Silatech index report 'Workforce Participation Linked to Wellbeing Differences Among Young Arab Women,' which examines reasons behind young women's workforce participation.
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In 1958, Baghdad was featured in Time magazine—not as a hotbed of revolutionary, civil or sectarian strife, but for its ambitious plans for the world's most famous architects, among them Frank Lloyd Wright, Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier and Alvar Aalto, to recapture through their modern buildings the city's former glory.
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