Skills Development: Vocational Education
in the Islamic Countries
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Figure 1.10: Employment to population with male and female ratio
Source: ILO, 2017
Based on gender discrimination, figure 1.11 shows the employment percentage of male and
female Vs countries classified by income level as low, medium and high in view of a bar chart. It
can easily be identified that percentage of gender discrimination in employment is gradually
mitigating at high-income class. Most of the member states of OIC and other developing
countries have low social status of women and consequently providing them needed education
or creating space for themusing technology is not considered as important as other high income
countries (Okolie & Yasin, 2017). Due to these attitudes and cultural influences huge number of
female might not get proper attention for skill development. Therefore the number of skilled
female workforce is considerably low and thereby creating skill gap and skill mismatch in the
workplace.
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