Paid Work for Constantine Women: An Access Gate to Public Space
Paid Work for Constantine Women: An Access Gate to Public Space

Summary/Abstract: In Algeria, paid work was once a manly business all that happened outside the house being reserved to men. The independence of the country has triggered profound socio-economic changes, which contributed to the insertion of women on the labour market. However, the attitude of the government towards the defence of women’s rights remained reserved, considering the weight of conservative and fundamentalist trends which reinforce the honour code in force and maintain the women in a minority status. Paid work has triggered a change in the Man/Woman and Inside/Outside report, although the outside behaviour of women is rapidly readjusted by man when it may violate the honour code. Today, in a modern Algeria, nothing justifies the minority status of women.

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