Comments on: Palestinian Israeli, Female and Unemployed? It’s Your Own Damn Fault

By: Richard Silverstein

Richard Silverstein — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:10:38 +0000

Can we please avoid nonsense?

By: Richard Silverstein

Richard Silverstein — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:08:58 +0000

the numbers for Saudi Arabia and Oman look fishy to me

Now you’re a expert demographer for Arab societies. How gifted you are. Why would the statistics include female foreign workers who are not citizens of the country. That makes no sense whatsoever nor do you have any proof whatsoever that what you guess is true.

If the numbers in Morocco & Mauritanian reflect poverty & a desperate need for work are you claiming that Israeli Arab families are so well off that the women do not similarly need to work?

By: Richard Silverstein

Richard Silverstein — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:06:08 +0000

So you’ve changed the wording & we’re still as befuddled as before about what you’re talking about. The statistic about all Israeli women is, once again, not applicable since it includes mostly Jewish women who do not face the same obstacles that Arab women do to join the Israeli workforce.

By: Richard Silverstein

Richard Silverstein — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:03:59 +0000

There only one problem w. yr comment. TheMarker.com IS Haaretz. There’s no difference bet. the 2 companies.

Everyone knows that Haredi participation in the work force is low. And everyone knows that the reasons for this have much less to do w. economic than religious/cultural reasons. The Haredi issue is entirely different than the issue of Arabs (men & women). The author of the article leads an NGO concerned specifically with participation of Arab women in the workforce. Hence the subject of the story.

So much for Haaretz conspiracies…

By: Max

Max — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:37:50 +0000

Arabs with Israeli ID can work for Arab companies. Why don’t they?

By: Mary

Mary — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:29:32 +0000

Exactly. Israeli Jewish women and Israeli Arab women live under incomparable circumstances. Steinitz’ claim that cultural restraints prevent Arab women from working is a blanket assumption which smacks of racism. Any close look at the employment opportunities for Arab Israelis in general is going to show that unemployment is higher for Arabs, which is evidence of the apartheid-like society in Israel.

By: amir

amir — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:24:23 +0000

One more thing. Here is a better article covering what Steinitz said though in Hebrew.
http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3802960,00.html

By: amir

amir — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:42:46 +0000

The last thing I wil say is the numbers for Saudi Arabia and Oman look fishy to me and most likely include foreign workers who are specifically there in order to work. I googled this too. There are twice as many non-Saudi women in the Saudi workforce than Saudi women.
http://www.saudi-us-relations.org/articles/2007/ioi/070529-saudi-women.html
The numbers for Morocco and Mauritania most likely reflect poverty and not feminism.
That is all.