AMMAN — Representatives of public and private sectors and of civil society
institutions in
Zarqa Governorate, on Monday discussed ways to encourage women
to participate in the labor market, including by providing a proper work
environment.
اضافة اعلان
Organized by the
National Association for Family Empowerment, the dialogue, running under the
title “The reality and aspirations of women’s participation in the economic
sectors”, came within the “Increasing women’s economic growth to reach
permanent community peace and security” project, which is implemented by the
association with the support of and funding from the Women’s Fund for Peace and
Humanitarian Action in Zarqa Municipality.
Executive Director of the National Association for
Family Empowerment Rania Hayouk stressed the importance of encouraging
non-working women to participate in the labor market, where women make up only
14.8 percent of the working force, by providing a decent work environment and
adequate standards of protection and safety that increase women’s participation
and productivity in various sectors.
Hayouk said the
association urged the government to provide a safe and modern transportation
network to facilitate women’s access to places of work, activate existing laws,
and introduce new legislation to curb negative practices in the work
environment, enhance decent work standards and practices, and promote equal
pay, reduce discrimination against women, and protect working women.
Hayouk called for “intensifying monitoring of
economic institutions, especially microfinance companies”, and for obliging
companies to inform working women of their rights and duties before they sign a
work contract.
Counselor for
Solidarity Is Global Institute (Tadamon) — described on its site as an independent non-profit and
developmental organization that seeks a society in which women fully enjoy
human rights and participate in the decision-making process, on the basis of
equality and non-discrimination — Enaam Al-Asha, told
Jordan News that a
decent work environment is an absolute requirement that many institutions still
fail to provide.
Activist
Nuha Al-Muhairiz said that adequate
salaries and meritocracy constitute proper treatment of all workers, women
included, adding that a safe environment for women and care for their children
through the provision of nurseries would “make them partners in the economic
process”.
At the same time, a harassment-free work
environment, safe transportation, and flexible working hours “so that women can
work according to their circumstances, role, and capabilities” would surely
encourage more women to work, she said.
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