This study aims at explaining the impact of gender differences on causing unemployment and poverty in a sample from four Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan, namely: Irbid, Al-Husn, Jerash, and Suf camp. The study also aims to answer the main following inquiry: “Do the differences in gender have an impact on causing unemployment and poverty among families inside Palestinian camps in Jordan?”. Therefore, in order to attain the objectives of the study through collecting the needed data from interviewees, a comprehensive questionnaire was designed. The collected data were analyzed and getting a completed characterization for the study sample which included 674 families, and then explaining whether gender differences stand as a cause for unemployment
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Also, the average ages of both mother and father were higher in families headed by women demonstrating that woman have been responsible for the sustenance of her children, and in sometimes her elderly and impotent husband. Concerning education, families headed by women gave more interest in investing in human capital through increasing their expenditures on sons’ education more than families headed by men, where the average number of children in the family who enrolled in free education in public schools, was higher for the families headed by men. In addition, living conditions between the two categories seem disparate, although the slight differences in the residences space for all families, considerable differences in the level of income were found for the favor of families headed by men (492.7 versus 330.8 JDs for families headed by women). Moreover, unemployment levels measured by the average number of unemployed in the family demonstrated that this problem was more prevalent in families headed by women, unlike employment levels, at which the average number of employed, was higher in the families headed by men. Although child labor is not widespread phenomenon in camps, its existence was more in families headed by women mainly due to the absence or retreat of father’s role in those families, which are in need for additional income sources so as to cover the costs of life requirements, even if child work became the way for attain that. One of the interesting findings of this study that dependency rate in the sample was
Also, the average ages of both mother and father were higher in families headed by women demonstrating that woman have been responsible for the sustenance of her children, and in sometimes her elderly and impotent husband. Concerning education, families headed by women gave more interest in investing in human capital through increasing their expenditures on sons’ education more than families headed by men, where the average number of children in the family who enrolled in free education in public schools, was higher for the families headed by men. In addition, living conditions between the two categories seem disparate, although the slight differences in the residences space for all families, considerable differences in the level of income were found for the favor of families headed by men (492.7 versus 330.8 JDs for families headed by women). Moreover, unemployment levels measured by the average number of unemployed in the family demonstrated that this problem was more prevalent in families headed by women, unlike employment levels, at which the average number of employed, was higher in the families headed by men. Although child labor is not widespread phenomenon in camps, its existence was more in families headed by women mainly due to the absence or retreat of father’s role in those families, which are in need for additional income sources so as to cover the costs of life requirements, even if child work became the way for attain that. One of the interesting findings of this study that dependency rate in the sample was