تحديات التمكين الاقتصادي للمرأة المصرية في القطاع غير الرسمي "منطقة العتبة بالقاهرة نموذجا" : إعداد/ سارة محمد عطية أحمد، باحثة دكتوراة قسم الاجتماع كلية الأداب جامعة السويس

The aim of the current research is to reveal the most important activities that women practice in the informal sector in the Ataba region, to identify the reasons for women's work within the informal sector, to reveal the most important challenges that women face in this sector, and to come up with some proposals that reduce the challenges that women are exposed to.Within the informal sector to achieve economic empowerment.The research relied on the descriptive analytical method based on the method of individual interviews and direct observation of women working in the informal sector in the Ataba region The researcher reached a number of results, the most important of which are: the diversity of forms of work and activities practiced by women in the informal sector, especially in the Ataba region, including: "handicrafts, making sebua sieves, T-shirts with various shapes and hand embroideries written on them, as well as making various wedding and event invitations."The results also revealed the reasons for women's work in this sector, and the most important reasons were: contributing to increasing family income, and some of ‫احملمكة‬ ‫العلمية‬ ‫اجملةل‬ -‫داب‬ ‫آ‬ ‫ال‬ ‫لكية‬ -‫يس‬ ‫السو‬ ‫جامعة‬ -‫العرشون‬ ‫و‬ ‫التاسع‬ ‫اجملدل‬ -‫ليو‬ ‫يو‬ 2024 350 them supporting the entire family.The results also revealed many of the challenges that women face in the informal sector, the most important of which is that she is a female who is harassed almost constantly in her field of work, and the attempt of wholesalers to control the price of the goods and the quantity that the working woman demands The results also revealed the most important challenges: challenges of customs, traditions, and cultural legacies.Divorced women and widowed women are treated differently in the areas of work in general, and in the informal sector in particular, than other women, as some rules and orders are imposed on them, whether from family or neighbors, under the pretext that they are without a man.