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A Quiet Revolution?: The Rise of Women Managers, Business Owners and Leaders in the Arabian Gulf States
Nick Forster
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Description for A Quiet Revolution?: The Rise of Women Managers, Business Owners and Leaders in the Arabian Gulf States
hardcover. This book examines the changing roles of university educated professional women in the United Arab Emirates, Oman and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Num Pages: 350 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBX; JFSJ1; KJMB; KJMV2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152. .
An irreversible transformation is taking place in the lives of many thousands of university educated professional women in the United Arab Emirates, Oman and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Drawing on eight years' participative research and extensive secondary sources, Nick Forster introduces the first extensive study to document this development in the Middle East. This book documents the emerging economic and political power of women, and how they are beginning to challenge ancient and deeply-held beliefs about the 'correct' roles of men and women in conservative Islamic societies, and in public and private sector organisations. It also describes the vital ... Read more
An irreversible transformation is taking place in the lives of many thousands of university educated professional women in the United Arab Emirates, Oman and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Drawing on eight years' participative research and extensive secondary sources, Nick Forster introduces the first extensive study to document this development in the Middle East. This book documents the emerging economic and political power of women, and how they are beginning to challenge ancient and deeply-held beliefs about the 'correct' roles of men and women in conservative Islamic societies, and in public and private sector organisations. It also describes the vital ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
Number of Pages
622
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107143463
SKU
V9781107143463
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Ref
99-10
About Nick Forster
Nick Forster is a writer and business consultant based in New South Wales, Australia. Before leaving academia in June 2015, he had worked at universities in the Arabian Gulf, Australia and the United Kingdom. He was the MBA/EMBA Program Director at Alfaisal University, Saudi Arabia and, occasionally, the acting Faculty Dean. He has written four books, and published more than ... Read more
Reviews for A Quiet Revolution?: The Rise of Women Managers, Business Owners and Leaders in the Arabian Gulf States
'A Quiet Revolution? is a great book for researchers, professionals and students of Middle East economy, policy, culture, and society … The author refers to the phenomenon taking place in three Gulf states - the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Oman - as an irreversible transformation in the lives of university-educated professional women in those countries. I cannot agree ... Read more