essay
Attitudes of immigrant women and men in the Dearborn area toward women's employment and welfare
Muslim communities in North America • Albany, N. Y. • Published In 1994 • Pages: 501-519
By: Aswad, Barbara C..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In the Dearborn, Michigan area a number of factors have operated against women's employment. Some of these major factors discussed by Aswad in this article '…are lack of skills and education; fewer piecemeal or part-time jobs than in the Middle East; the 'rich peasant' mentality of husbands from villages with its emphasis on increased female modesty and a restricted environment; increasing Islamic values operating in a host country that does not seem to value premarital chastity; restrictions (including, sometimes, educational) placed by some mothers on their daughters even though theoretically they accept the idea of employment and education for them; and restrictions of the male-dominant auto industry in contrast to family-run businesses' (p. 515). The author explores each of these factors fully in the text.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Religious and educational structures
- Labor supply and employment
- Gender status
- Family relationships
- Ethnosociology
- Gender roles and issues
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Arab Americans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1999
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1998
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1971, 1984
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. 1900-1984
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Southend area, Dearborn, Michigan, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Barbara Aswad
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 93036564
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Arab Americans