In 2017, the UN Women organization made a campaign where they showed a lack of representation and presence of Egyptian women in the job market, especially in disciplines such as science, politics, and technology. According to the Capmas, women are only 23% of the labour force in the country, while most of the females are pushed into the background, where they can only work on non paid jobs or even scarcity.
That year, Egypt was on the 134th position of the Global Gender Pay Gap from the World Economic Forum (WEF), which measures the level of equality between genders on the participation on economics and the access to education, healthcare, survival, and political empowerment. a mixture of economic, conservative, religious and sexual harassment obstacles has made it very complicated for women to gain access to jobs and to have equal salaries. Traditionally, woman’s task was to take care of her children and to do the housework. however, females are slowly taking to the streets and getting new jobs. There is merit on this, considering that, while the country suffers an economic crisis, these women are going to university and studying a wide-ranging of degrees to make a good living.
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