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This chapter presents the history of the women’s economic empowerment in the world in general and produces a summary of the main international conventions, that Egypt commitments to them, and laws and strategies in Egypt in particular which support women’s economic empowerment. It reviews the most important conventions, agreements and national strategies that focus on women’s economic empowerment.
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Alkitkat, H. (2018). History of Women’s Economic Empowerment. In: Egyptian Female Labor Force Participation and the Future of Economic Empowerment . SpringerBriefs in Political Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59644-0_1
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