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News ID: 88313
Publish Date : 07 March 2021 - 22:44

Women Downtrodden by Occupying Regime: Official Report

AL-QUDS (Dispatches) – Women accounted for only 28 percent of managerial positions in the occupying regime in 2020, according to an annual report published by the regime’s own Central Bureau of Statistics on Sunday.
In 2019, for comparison, women held 30.3 percent of managerial positions in the occupied territories.
The report was issued ahead of the International Women’s Day to be marked on Monday.
In the hi-tech field, 125,000 women were employed in the occupied territories in 2020, out of a total of 360,000 hi-tech employees, or 34.7 percent.
In 2019, the rate of women employed in hi-tech was higher at 35.2 percent.
The women population was 4,677,700 at the end of 2020, about 50.3 percent of the total 9.291 million population, according to the report.
Meanwhile, thirty-five female Palestinian prisoners are currently behind bars in the occupied territories, a local NGO announced ahead of the International Women’s Day, noting that eleven of the prisoners are mothers.
In a statement carried by Palestine’s official Wafa news agency, the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) said 26 of the female prisoners had been sentenced for varying periods, the longest belonging to two prisoners, Shurooq Dwayyat and Shatila Abu Ayyad, who were each serving a jail sentence of 16 years.
Three of the prisoners are being held without charge or trial under the so-called administrative detention, the rights NGO added.
The Israeli administrative detention is a form of incarceration without trial or charge that allows the occupying regime’s authorities to detain Palestinians for up to six months. The period, however, can be extended for an infinite number of times.