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Maia Sieverding

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Maia Sieverding
Assistant Professor of Public Health Practice at the American University of Beirut

Maia Sieverding is Assistant Professor of Public Health Practice at the American University of Beirut. Previously, she was Social Scientist with Global Health Sicences at the University of California, San Francisco. Sieverding held a number of other positions such as Evaluation Officer with Global Health Sicences at the University of California, Associate Statistician with the United Nations, and Program Officer at the Poverty Gender & Youth Program with the Population Council. Dr. Sieverding received her PhD in Sociology and Demography from the University of Califorina, Berkeley in 2012. She also received two Master's Degrees in Demography and Sociology from UC Berkeley in the years 2010 and 2009.

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Women’s employment and care work in MENA during the pandemic

Across the world, Covid-19 and associated policy measures that closed schools and nurseries led to increased care work for married women in households with young or school-aged children. But as research reported in this column shows, in the Middle East and North Africa, married women had already selected out of the types of work that were difficult to reconcile with care work, with the result that married women did not exit employment disproportionately during the pandemic.

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