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Young people in Jordan are seeking to marry employed young women
5-2-2018
In its issue of today, Al Hayat newspapernoted that the decline in household income and the corresponding increase in costs of living in Jordan have prompted more women and girls to access the labor market and become a prime source of income for their family. This, Al Hayat wrote, has contributed to a higher demand on young employed women for marriage contrary to what was customary in the past, when an engaged girl had to quit her job after she gets wed in order to raise her family. On the subject, the newspaper spoke to human rights expert, Inaam Asha, who drew attention to the disparity in the attitude toward marriage to women with employment and a still lingering outlook which requires young women to stop working after engagement. Today, however, Asha explained, parents are themselves in the lookout for jobs for their own daughters contravening a past tradition which considers the mixed-sex workplace as a social taboo for girls. Citing official statistics, Asha indicated that the rate of participation of women in the labor market reached nearly 14%, while the rate of employment among women stood at 35%, noting that with a simple addition, the rate of potentially-productive women would constitute half of the Jordanian labor market. Nadia Ali (35 years) for her part, told Al Hayat that young men want to marry a working girl to split household expenses with the partner, adding that, some guys demand that their future partner be employed. For the full article, kindly visit the following link: https://goo.gl/CyRjvi. ((Al Hayat, February 5, 2018)
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