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Feb. 22, 2011
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Dr. Sarab Abu-Rabia-Queder of the Department of Man in the Desert at the Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research on the Sede Boqer campus has been awarded a grant from the Israel Ministry of Science and Technology for her research study "Avenues of Economic Participation for Rural Bedouin Women". The grant totals almost NIS 400,000 and is for a period of three years.
 
The study, to be carried out with Dr. Avigail Morris of the Arava Institute seeks to examine patterns of informal economic participation of rural Bedouin women with the aim to find ways of strengthening their economic empowerment and will focus on four unrecognized Bedouin villages in the Negev through analysis of the contextual differences between them.
 
In the course of the study, the research team hopes to address the following questions: What female income earning activities are not considered formal paid employment but are practiced in each Bedouin village? What opportunities do rural women create in order to contribute to the family income by means that are acceptable both to themselves and to the male villagers on whom they depend?
 
Dr. Abu-Rabia-Queder's research focus is on gender and development in Bedouin society in Israel. She recently published a book on the first Bedouin women in higher education (Magnes Press, Hebrew University), and has co-authored the book Palestinian Women in Israel: Identity, Power Relations and Coping (Van Leer Institute, Hakibbutz Hameukhad).  In 2007–2008, she completed her postdoctoral studies at the International Center for Development Studies, Oxford University, UK.
 
 
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