African Women and Industrial Development - Statistical Indicators -The case of Egypt, Tunisia and Algeria

 
Abstract:
 The low contribution of women to economic activity in general and industrialization in particular is the biggest challenge facing industrial development in Africa, the paper aims to identify the size of African women’s participation in the labor market and the challenges they face as well as the areas of work in which the African woman’s contribution is concentrated at the level Macro, as well as identifying the size of women's participation in the formal labor market and indicators of industrial development in a number of North African countries at the micro level, and explaining this in light of a number of sociological theoretical approaches that dealt with the relationship of women to development.
 The study relies on statistical data and relevant international reports as well as labor force surveys and recent previous studies related to the reality of industrialization in Africa to shed light on the reality of women's participation in industrialization in Africa and try to identify internal and external challenges that reduce the  women’s contribute to participate in industrial development in models of different African countries .In light of this, the research paper is divided into the following components:
First: Definition the industrial development and its indicators .
Second: The theoretical approaches to The participation of women in the labor market and their relationship to industrial development.
Third: The participation of Women in industrial development in Africa at the macro level.
Fourth: The participation of African women in the industrial development and the challenges they face in: Egypt, Tunisia and Algeria..
Fifth: Conclusions and Recommendations