Tertiary educated Muslim women’s work decision / Peck-Leong Tan, Muhammad Adidinizar Zia Ahmad Kusairee and Norlida Abdul Hamid

Tertiary educated Muslim women’s work decision / Peck-Leong Tan, Muhammad Adidinizar Zia Ahmad Kusairee and Norlida Abdul Hamid

The participation of women in the labour force has been steadily rising over the years, especially with tremendous human capital investment in educating more women at tertiary levels. However, the tertiary educated women labour participation remains low, particularly among Muslim women. Therefore, t...

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Main Authors: Zia Ahmad Kusairee, Muhammad Adidinizar, Abdul Hamid, Norlida
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Faculty of Business and Management 2015
Online Access:http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/12382/
http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/12382/2/AJ_PECK-LEONG%20TAN%20JEEIR%2015.pdf
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spelling uitm-123822019-03-12T03:28:12Z http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/12382/ Tertiary educated Muslim women’s work decision / Peck-Leong Tan, Muhammad Adidinizar Zia Ahmad Kusairee and Norlida Abdul Hamid Zia Ahmad Kusairee, Muhammad Adidinizar Abdul Hamid, Norlida The participation of women in the labour force has been steadily rising over the years, especially with tremendous human capital investment in educating more women at tertiary levels. However, the tertiary educated women labour participation remains low, particularly among Muslim women. Therefore, this paper explores how tertiary educated Muslim women make their decision to work. This study surveyed 139 tertiary educated women and found their decisions to work are affected by their families’ needs and/or responsibilities, and may not be due to their lives’ goals and dreams. The majority of them work for the sake of money and hence will work if offered jobs meet their expectations in term of salary and position. Furthermore, they will leave the workforce if they need to fulfil their responsibilities at home. Therefore, to retain or to encourage more women especially those with high qualifications to be in the labour market, stakeholders must provide family-friendly jobs and suitable work environment such as flexible working arrangements. More importantly, stakeholders must be able to convince the family members of tertiary educated women to release them to the labour market. Faculty of Business and Management 2015 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/12382/2/AJ_PECK-LEONG%20TAN%20JEEIR%2015.pdf Zia Ahmad Kusairee, Muhammad Adidinizar and Abdul Hamid, Norlida (2015) Tertiary educated Muslim women’s work decision / Peck-Leong Tan, Muhammad Adidinizar Zia Ahmad Kusairee and Norlida Abdul Hamid. Journal of Emerging Economies and Islamic Research (JEEIR), 3 (2). pp. 1-9. ISSN 2289-2559
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description The participation of women in the labour force has been steadily rising over the years, especially with tremendous human capital investment in educating more women at tertiary levels. However, the tertiary educated women labour participation remains low, particularly among Muslim women. Therefore, this paper explores how tertiary educated Muslim women make their decision to work. This study surveyed 139 tertiary educated women and found their decisions to work are affected by their families’ needs and/or responsibilities, and may not be due to their lives’ goals and dreams. The majority of them work for the sake of money and hence will work if offered jobs meet their expectations in term of salary and position. Furthermore, they will leave the workforce if they need to fulfil their responsibilities at home. Therefore, to retain or to encourage more women especially those with high qualifications to be in the labour market, stakeholders must provide family-friendly jobs and suitable work environment such as flexible working arrangements. More importantly, stakeholders must be able to convince the family members of tertiary educated women to release them to the labour market.
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author Zia Ahmad Kusairee, Muhammad Adidinizar
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Tertiary educated Muslim women’s work decision / Peck-Leong Tan, Muhammad Adidinizar Zia Ahmad Kusairee and Norlida Abdul Hamid
author_facet Zia Ahmad Kusairee, Muhammad Adidinizar
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title Tertiary educated Muslim women’s work decision / Peck-Leong Tan, Muhammad Adidinizar Zia Ahmad Kusairee and Norlida Abdul Hamid
title_short Tertiary educated Muslim women’s work decision / Peck-Leong Tan, Muhammad Adidinizar Zia Ahmad Kusairee and Norlida Abdul Hamid
title_full Tertiary educated Muslim women’s work decision / Peck-Leong Tan, Muhammad Adidinizar Zia Ahmad Kusairee and Norlida Abdul Hamid
title_fullStr Tertiary educated Muslim women’s work decision / Peck-Leong Tan, Muhammad Adidinizar Zia Ahmad Kusairee and Norlida Abdul Hamid
title_full_unstemmed Tertiary educated Muslim women’s work decision / Peck-Leong Tan, Muhammad Adidinizar Zia Ahmad Kusairee and Norlida Abdul Hamid
title_sort tertiary educated muslim women’s work decision / peck-leong tan, muhammad adidinizar zia ahmad kusairee and norlida abdul hamid
publisher Faculty of Business and Management
publishDate 2015
url http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/12382/
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