Women Entrepreneurship in MENA | 01 Here are some of the key findings of Women and Entrepreneurship in the MENA Region that help explain the gender gap in starting and especially growing businesses in the region: • Education: Despite significant progress in education and governmental efforts to reform education, the quality of education in the various countries studied is still lacking and does no. [...] The gender gap in Lebanon seems to be improving despite ongoing economic and political crises.[2] And in the past decade, Bahrain has introduced many reforms with noticeable changes in female participation in the labor force and the number of women-owned businesses. [...] [5] Center of Arab Women for Training and Research and International Finance Corporation, “Women Entrepreneurs in the Middle East and North Africa: Characteristics, Contributions, and Challenges,” World Women Entrepreneurship in MENA | 07 Education The MENA region has historically been a hub for education, with the two oldest universities in the world: the University of Karuein in Fez, Morocco, an. [...] In 2018, in Bahrain and Tunisia, women represented 83 percent and 80 percent of graduates in the arts and humanities, respectively; 73 and 75 percent in health and welfare; and 73 and 77 percent in the social sciences, journalism, and communications.[30] The lack of women’s participation in STEM is a sociocultural factor. [...] It ratified the Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention in 2000, the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in 2002, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in 2006, and the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in 2007.
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