Working Those Connections: Exploring Arab Womenﾒs Differential Access to Opportunity in the Middle East and North Africa
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2015
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Despite enviable increases in educational attainment, women in the MENA countries may fare less well in attaining a form of social capital integral to their ability to exercise full political, economic and social agency: wasta — loosely, clout, or using one’s connections and/or influence to get things done.
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Buttorff, Gail and Welborne, Bozena. "Working Those Connections: Exploring Arab Womenﾒs Differential Access to Opportunity in the Middle East and North Africa." Issue Brief, no. 07.17.15 (2015) James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy: http://www.bakerinstitute.org/research/women-and-wasta-clout-mideast/.