Qalqilya, Ma'an: the proportion of Palestinian females is close to half of Palestinian society, with a slight difference from males, and more than half of them are married, while the proportion of widows reached around 6% and single women around 37%. Palestinian females also live around 3 years longer than males.<\/p>\n
Dr. Luay Shabaneh, president of the Palestinian Bureau of Statistics, reviewed the conditions and reality of Palestinian women on the occasion of the eighth of March, International Women's Day, through a press statement issued this Sunday morning to mark the occasion.<\/p>\n
Shabaneh said: \"This announcement comes out of our concern and our affirmation of the importance of this day for women in general and for Palestinian women in particular, given that they make up around half of Palestinian society, where the sex ratio reached 103 males for every 100 females according to the preliminary results of the 2007 census. It is also in keeping with the publication policy followed at the bureau and out of our awareness of the need to give this subject great importance by placing the official figures and statistics in the hands of planners and policy-makers on all matters relating to women.\"<\/p>\n
He added: \"In loyalty to and recognition of the greatness of the role Palestinian women play, the Palestinian Bureau of Statistics has consistently highlighted the place women occupy as mother, wife, sister, daughter, worker and campaigner, by providing as many figures and statistics as possible on women's social, economic and political role in Palestinian society. Palestinian women receive the eighth of March, the day the world has set aside to honour women, with added pain as a result of the circumstances Palestinians in general and women in particular are living through.\"<\/p>\n
Dr. Shabaneh reviewed the reality of Palestinian women as follows:<\/p>\n
Around half of Palestinian society is female, 6.4% of women (15 years and over) are widowed and 36.8% are single<\/p>\n
The estimated population at the end of 2008 in the Palestinian territories was 3.88 million people, of them 1.97 million males and 1.91 million females, with a sex ratio of 103.1.<\/p>\n
Life expectancy in mid-2008 in the Palestinian territories was 70.2 years for males and 73.0 years for females, at 70.6 years for males and 73.6 years for females in the West Bank, and 69.7 years for males and 72.1 years for females in the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n
As for the marital status of females, the labour force survey data during 2008 indicated that more than half of women (55.4%) aged 15 and over are currently married, 6.4% of them are widowed, 1.2% divorced and 0.3% separated from their husbands, while 36.8% of females in the same age group are single.<\/p>\n
90.9% of females aged 15 and over can read and write<\/p>\n
The education of females is considered one of the most important social rights and is one of the foremost indicators of equality between men and women towards sustainable community development. During 2008, the proportion of females aged 15 and over currently enrolled in education was 23.7% against 21.8% for males.<\/p>\n
On the other hand the data for the same period showed that 9.1% of Palestinian females aged 15 and over are illiterate against 2.9% for males, which indicates the need to work on narrowing this gap among females. 15.1% of them hold a primary certificate compared with 17.4% for males, and 7.6% hold a bachelor's degree or above compared with 14.9% for males.<\/p>\n
The participation of females aged 15 and over in the labour force in the Palestinian territories is still low, at around 15.2% against 66.8% for males, while unemployment among females reached 23.8% during 2008<\/p>\n
Women's participation in work is considered an important developmental requirement in the process of comprehensive development. The proportion of females aged 15 and over participating in the labour force during 2008 in the Palestinian territories was 15.2% against 66.8% for males; in the West Bank the participation rate was 17.1% for females and 68.3% for males, while it was 11.7% for females and 64.0% for males in the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n
The participation rate of females aged 15 and over in the labour force in the Palestinian territories was highest in rural areas at 18.7%, followed by 14.3% in urban areas and then 12.7% in the camps.<\/p>\n
Regarding unemployment according to the International Labour Organisation's definition, the proportion of females aged 15 and over out of work was 23.8% against 26.5% for males, while unemployment among females who had completed 13 years of schooling or more was higher than among men, reaching 34.9% for females against 18.6% for males during the same period. As for the participation of females aged 15 and over in economic activities, their greatest participation was in agriculture, forestry, hunting and fishing at 27.5%; as for service activities, their greatest participation was in the field of education at 31.7%, followed by health at 8.8%.<\/p>\n
61.2% of households headed by females in the Palestinian territories are poor<\/p>\n
The poverty rate among households headed by females was 61.2% against 56.9% among households headed by males across the Palestinian territories during 2007. The difficult circumstances represented by the arbitrary Israeli measures towards the Palestinian people, which are still continuing, have been a principal cause of the growing spread of poverty among households, where the poverty rate among households headed by women with 7 children or more reached 79.7%, and 68.6% for households with 5 to 6 children, while the poverty rate fell in households with fewer children, reaching 49.3% for households with 1 to 2 children during 2007.<\/p>\n
330 women martyrs over the past eight years, and the number of Palestinian women prisoners reached 60 at the end of 2008<\/p>\n
At a time when the world celebrates freedom and independence, Palestinian prisoners are still held behind the bars of the Israeli occupation's prisons. According to the latest statistics on the number of prisoners at the end of 2008, it was noted that there are around 10,000 Palestinian prisoners in the jails, among them 60 women prisoners, 68% of whom have been sentenced while the rest are distributed between detention centres and administrative detention. The number of women martyrs reached 330 from the beginning of the Al-Aqsa intifada in 2000 until the end of 2008.<\/p>\n
10% of Palestinian judges are female, and more than half of those working in the nursing sector are female for 2007<\/p>\n
In political and public life, the proportion of females among all the members of the cabinet was around 9.5% during 2007 compared with 4.0% during 2006. The proportion of women working as journalists in the Palestinian territories was 14.3% of all journalists during 2008, while the proportion of women working as judges was around 10.0% of all judges during 2007.<\/p>\n
In the health sector, the Ministry of Health's records for 2007 indicate that the proportion of women working in the nursing sector makes up 54.8% of all those working in nursing, against 45.2% for men, while the gender gap widens in men's favour to reach 80.7% compared with 19.3% for women working as dentists, and 58.8% for men compared with 41.2% for women working as pharmacists.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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