Survey Highlights:
- • Financial independence is the key motivation to start work, according to57% of the region’s working women.
- • Salary takes the top spot when it comes to benefits of working. Three in five claim higher salary as an extremely important benefit, followed by ‘Opportunities for long term career growth’ (31%) and health insurance (28%).
- • Majority of women (74%) claim to be working in a mixed-gender environment.69% of those who work in mixed-gender environments assert that they are comfortable with it.
- •28% working women say that they would prefer a male manager and only4% would prefer a female manager.
Respondents' Profile: The exercise was conducted amongst working women, aged over18, across the region including UAE, KSA, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Algeria, Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia. The survey was conducted online with a sample of2,185 respondents between the17th and the30th of May,2012.
