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The Egyptian economy has gone through a number of economic and structural transformations that has affected employment in general and employment for women in particular,where the Ministry of Manpower has seized control of the labor market, but to leave the labor market to the forces of supply and demand and free market mechanisms in the early nineties, and the application of economic reform and structural adjustment program,through a number of economic crises and social revolutions that have swept the Egyptian economy and impacted seriously on a lot of economic sectors including the Egyptian labor sector,which draws attention to the need to analyze these developments on the Egyptian women´s employment in terms of gains or losses, specially in light of the evolution of investment and educational policies, and legislations and laws in Egypt.

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Assoc.Prof.Wafaa Mohamed Salman . Associate Professor at the faculty of Commerce in Zagazig University in Egypt . Received BSc from zagazig university in 1986 , in 1994 she received MSc , and in 2001 she received Phd from zagazig university and in 2008 she became Associate professor .

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