(UNDP 2003;World Bank 2003a,2003b;Metcalfe 2006). In response to this social and religious order, women have navigated the patriarchy and structural and attitudinal organizational barriers by engaging in business development amongst themselves, such as the Arab Women’ Society, a Gulf Co-operative ...
as the main unit in society, the man as the sole breadwinner, a code of modesty that rests on family dignity and the reputation of women, and the unequal balance of power in the private sphere that is anchored in family laws (United Nations Development Program UNDP; World Bank 2003a, 200...