• kbotc@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Israel created conditions where boys can’t expect to live long enough?

    That’s an insane take on Hamas preventing women from gainful employment or education and turning them into baby factories. The reason there’s so many children is because the population literally doubled in 24 years, and you only get population growth stats like those when you have uneducated women who can only have children and do no other function in society.

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      10 months ago

      I mean pretty much everyone in Gaza is without employment. Wasn’t the unemployment rate around 75% before October 7th? That’s just what happens if you block pretty much any trade and force a region to depend on outside humanitarian aid

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        10 months ago

        No, the unemployment rate was not 75%.

        The disparity between Gaza and the West Bank is also reflected in unemployment rates, which over the period 2007-22 have been persistently higher in Gaza at an average of 39 percent, compared to 17 percent in the West Bank. This even as labor force participation rates have remained below 50 percent since the mid-1990s in both Gaza and the West Bank. The situation is particularly pronounced for youth and females in Gaza, where over two-thirds are unemployed, compared to less than a quarter in the West Bank.

        https://www.elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/002/2023/327/article-A001-en.xml

        The atrocious unemployment is partially because women are essentially excluded from the labor market.

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          10 months ago

          I remembered incorrectly, what I was thinking about was the percentage of people relying on international aid which is/was between 75% and 80%. I didn’t find anything on how the unemployment rates are calculated, are women even included in the total potential workforce? I’d guess so, because they are interested in reporting a number that’s as high as possible, but on the other hand they might not do that out of bigotry?

          Edit: Apparently yes women are counted towards the total and they are around 60% unemployed