AMMAN —
Minister of State for Legal Affairs and Head of the Inter-Ministerial Committee
for Women Empowerment,
Wafa Bani Mustafa, stressed the need to make progress in
achieving more legislative justice for women, according to the Jordan News
Agency, Petra.
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This process
should focus on legislation related to women’s political and economic
participation, which has become a “pressing” necessity to increase household
income, revive the economy and increase GDP, Bani Mustafa added.
The minister’s
remarks Sunday came at the closing symposium held by the Center of Arab Women
for Training and Research, Jordanian National Commission for Women,and Kvinna till Kvinna Foundation.
The event
entitled “Women Business Owners Economically and Commercially on an Equal
Footing with Men”, is part of the Female Entrepreneurship and Empowerment in
the
MENA Region.
The
International Labor Organization estimated that the gender gap in labor force
participation in Jordan led to a loss of $8 billion in the value of GDP in
2018, Bani Mustafa said.
Meanwhile, UNICEF
estimated that an increase in women’s participation in the Jordanian labor
force by 25 percent over the next seven years will help Jordan’s GDP grow by 5
percent annually, she said.
As for Jordan’s
ranking in economic participation according to the World Bank’s 2021 Gender Gap
Report, which measures countries’ performance in 4 areas: Economic, political
empowerment, respectively, health, and education, she said the Kingdom ranked
133 out of 156 countries.
The ranking, she
pointed out, is an important indicator towards the need to increase women’s
eco-nomic participation, and coordinate efforts with Jordan’s private sector to
provide job opportunities, which would contribute to increasing women’s
economic presence.
Bani Mustafa said
that an Inter-Ministerial Committee for
Women Empowerment is “aware” of the
importance of increasing Jordan’s ranking on global indicators, which is one of
its most important priorities, as coordination has been made with the World
Bank to discuss mechanisms to enhance Jordan’s position on its Women, Business
and the Law report.
Jordan,
represented by Inter-Ministerial Committee for Women Empowerment, seeks through
its Economic Modernization Vision, which was launched under Royal auspices, to
focus on women’s economic empowerment in the vision’s initiatives, she noted.
The minister highlighted
the vision’s contribution to improving the conditions of working women,
providing new job opportunities and enhancing the related legislative process.
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