Discrimination * Israel - Lack of buses in Arab towns keeps women from working
Tel Aviv,Israel -The Haaretz, by Yoav Stern -4 Feb 2007: -- A recent report by Kayan, an advocacy group for Arab women, found that the minimal public transportation in Arab areas hits women the hardest, making it difficult for them to work or study and pushing them "to the margins of society"... If the government were to subsidize better public transit in Israeli Arab towns, it would encourage Arab women to enter the workforce, according to the report, which is based on a survey of the public transit system in 11 Israeli Arab communities... Only 30 percent of Arab women aged between 25-44 participate in the Israeli workforce, far lower than the 80 percent rate among Jewish women in the same age range... (Photo by Ancho Gosh / Jini - A woman from the Druze village of Isfiya. Minimal transportation hits women most)Labels: discrimination
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