While #Egypt‘s government has set a national goal of increasing women’s economic participation, there is no explicit policy to address gender-based violence that may arise from more women working. GEME is a new public-private partnership working to address that:
Public-Private Partnerships: Promoting gender equity and preventing gender-based violence in Egypt
Although employment is usually seen as a resource for women’s empowerment, it does not automatically translate into better status and lower rates of violence for women. In fact, in some settings, if gendered norms that support men’s violence against women are not addressed, the economic empowerm…
