Buttorff, GailWelborne, Bozena2016-10-122016-10-122015Buttorff, Gail and Welborne, Bozena. "Working Those Connections: Exploring Arab Womenﾒs Differential Access to Opportunity in the Middle East and North Africa." <i>Issue Brief,</i> no. 07.17.15 (2015) James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy: <a href="http://www.bakerinstitute.org/research/women-and-wasta-clout-mideast/">http://www.bakerinstitute.org/research/women-and-wasta-clout-mideast/</a>.https://hdl.handle.net/1911/91826Despite 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.eng