"Women working in the informal sector," the study aims to identify the conditions
and problems of women working in the informal sector as well as the reasons for their
work in this sector, and also aims to identify the future aspirations so as to i
mprove their
situation.
To achieve this purpose, the study interviews women workers in the informal sector who
are between the ages of 23-50 years old and work in the areas of production and services.
The study sample consists of 20 women from different educational levels of living in the
city and countryside of Latakia. The cases of the study are asked to answer questions about
the status of their work, taking into account the pressures faced by working in the field
work.
Results of the study shows that women (case studies) contribute to improving their
standard of living through their work in the informal sector as well as part of them suffer
from problems and difficulties at work. It is also a finding of the study, the role of the
aforementioned sector in achieving economic and social independence for worker women.
The study results through a set of recommendations and proposals that can contribute to
improving the conditions of worker women in the informal sector.
Woman has struggled for a long time through Liberation Movements and Women Associations to achieve her freedom and the equality with men to get some of her rights, and among these rights there's the right to work or work outside the home, previously
women's work was only at home with some handwork and agricultural works, and here it must be pointed out that seeking women to work was the result of several motives of social and economic reasons, which led to several results that reflected on woman, family and community life.
