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Debunking Myths Surrounding Women’s Careers in the Arab Region

A Critical Reflexive Approach

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Career Guidance and Livelihood Planning across the Mediterranean

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Abstract

In this chapter, and stemming from our position as academic researchers and as women living and working in the Arab Region, we engage in a critical reflexive exercise that echoes our feminist standpoint. We aim to tackle and debunk some of the assumptions that often underpin research on women’s careers in our region. Such assumptions may find strong support in a Western context, but they do not necessarily hold in a different socio-cultural and political context.

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Afiouni, F., Karam, C. (2017). Debunking Myths Surrounding Women’s Careers in the Arab Region. In: Sultana, R.G. (eds) Career Guidance and Livelihood Planning across the Mediterranean. EMCER. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-992-8_3

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