The Government as an Employer of Choice?
Bayt.com’s recent 2008 Women in the Middle East Workplace Survey brought many interesting workplace trends to light, not the least of which is the role of the Government as an employer of choice for women in the Middle East.
Several interesting facts emerged about the role of the Government in promoting women’s workplace rights in the Middle East.:-
- The Government as a more equitable payer than the private sector. 49% of government and semi-government institution employees feel they receive equal pay as their male counterparts; versus 43% in internationally owned companies and 34% in locally owned companies.
- The Government as a more equitable promoter than the private sector. 51% of women believe they have an equal chance of being promoted as their male counterparts and/or that their promotability will depend entirely on their hard work not on their gender. This figure is 50% in internationally owned companies and only 44% in locally owned companies.
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Amazing Statistics on Women in the Middle East Workplace
The 2008 Bayt.com research survey on Women in the Middle East Workplace is out and the results are extremely encouraging for all working women in the region.
The survey shows that professional women are making very positive headway in competing with men on an equal footing in workplaces around the region, from the GCC to the Levant to North Africa. In fact, the vast majority of women (43% of respondents) feel that their gender has not affected their career prospects at all, with exactly as many women feeling that their gender has impacted their career prospects positively (22% of respondents) as the number that believe their gender has affected their career prospects negatively (22%).
Women in the Middle East Workplace
The results of a series of online polls conducted by the Middle East’s number one job site – Bayt.com – into the region’s jobseekers, has shown that the most important element for women in finding a new job is the potential opportunities for growth and advancement. Of the respondents, 36% put this as their primary concern, followed by 31% of respondents stating that an attractive salary was the most important factor considered when seeking employment. A ‘cordial and friendly boss’, and a ‘friendly working team’ were considered as the least important factors, by 3% and 4% of respondents respectively.
The range of recent Women in the Middle East Workplace online polls seek to understand and measure the attitudes of the region’s jobseekers to women in the workplace, by assessing prevailing outlooks on important and contentious elements including gender equality and the competence of different genders to do the same professional work.
