On Wednesday, November 6, 2024, the Women’s Affairs Unit at the College of Law / University of Fallujah held a lecture entitled (Women and their Entry into the Labor Market). The lecture was given by Eng. Areej Talib Kazem, the head of the unit at the college, and in the presence of a number of female faculty members and male and female students from the college. The lecture addressed two axes: The first is: What are the reasons that prevented many male and female graduates from working in private companies and entering the markets to work in a proper manner? In general, then we focused on women and how there are many reasons that prevent them from working within companies and private projects, and the most important reasons are the lack of adequate guarantees for employment, the discrimination between men’s wages compared to women’s, as well as the issue of marriage and having children, the exposure of many working women to harassment, and other factors that we have mentioned. As for the second axis, we have shown the most important solutions that can be proposed to confront the situation of the absence of many women from the labor market, the most important of which are It is the enactment or activation of laws and regulations regarding the guarantees that women enjoy within companies and private projects, educating women in the event that they are exposed to harassment by reporting the harasser either to the security service located inside the workplace or to the police station, also equality in paying wages between men and women and finally joining labor unions. This lecture was prepared within the annual plan of the unit based on the strategic plan of the Women’s Affairs Department in the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research. Which aims to clarify the role of women in life, their participation in private work, and their entry into the market to raise the economic level and income level for themselves and the state because they are an effective element in management and work like men.
