This Christmas vacation as I decided to go back home to visit my family. I also decided to go and check out some PR agencies and Universities that do PR courses in Kuwait.
What I realised was that not only in the West there has been a recent increase in women working in PR agencies or women who will be entering the PR industries, but that there has been a growing interest in Kuwait as well as in generally all of Middle-East.
As I spoke to people from these PR agencies I came to conclude that the main difference between the West and the Middle-East especially looking at Kuwait, is that there are more women in the managerial position here in the Middle-East then in the West.
The reason for this being is that during the past five years the Kuwaiti government has given the women her full democratic rights which also meant that it gave the women the same rights as her male colleagues and that gave women the chance to advance in their careers and even reach as high as managerial positions.
And this does not only apply to the PR field, it also applies for other professions in Kuwait.
4 comments:
In my opinion government rights does not necessarily mean better positions for women.How does one escape office politics??
I would say I agree with your topic because it does look like women are increasing in the industry. And in some true cases women get payed less then their male colleagues,but still in some countries like the Middle-East women are getting to higher positions,because im one of them before i wouldn't dream of becoming an Executive Manager of a PR company and now i am the Executive Manager of Spot Advertising Company.
Hey Lina,
Interesting that you make this comment. It is good to see that women in the Middle East are moving up the Corporate Ladder. Some of the best and astute managers I have come across in Qatar and Dubai are Arab women. However, could this rise be because there is a higher literacy level amongst women in Khaleeji countries today? Also are these top positions for women more in the private sector than the public/govt sector? In Qatar and the UAE, government sector jobs are the most sought after by nationals because of the benefits, loans, holidays and other perks they enjoy (not necessarily because of the salary and also because it is harder to fire nationals in a government owned organisation).
i am a little stumped here. what kind of democratic rights are we talkin about which were curbed for women in kuwait? i am probably ignorant about that and it would be enlightenin to know these details
and i completely agree with bijal's comments!!!
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