As usual, the problem of women’s employment overlaps with other problems, and gets extremely complicated, according to regional, cultural, and civil differences. Some of these problems stem from the cultural heritage that supports women’s subordination. It also makes them an entity that is limited to reproduction, domestic work, and maintaining the honor of the family. Moreover, the social outlook involves a lot of rejection and condemnation of women’s employment. This is also supported by the Bedouin values that spread to the city due to socio-cultural cross-fertilization. Therefore, women are still subject to social discrimination, sexual harassment, and unequal pay. Moreover, they face discrimination in promotions, privileges, and holding positions of responsibility. They are also subjected to harassment, violence, death threats, and the absence of official legal protections in the workplace. Other problems are related to the policies and laws that do not recognize the principle of equality between men and working women on one hand and between working women in state departments and the public sector on one hand, and women who work in other sectors on the other hand. This is evident in Article (65) of the Retirement and Social Security Law No. (39), which does not include any policies that regulate work or protections for employees who work in the private sector, which is devoid of policies and conditions for decent work as well as social protections, unlike the public sector.
Women’s fear of revealing harassment and discrimination in the workplace is related to the social culture and its conservative value system. It is also due to the authoritarian style followed in the work environment, which lacks the simplest components of decent work environment such as insufficient lighting, noise, poor ventilation, nurseries, security cameras, and barriers that protect employees from customers or other employees.
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