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Mr. Hashim Shawa, Bank of Palestine’s Chairman, welcomed the attendees; he expressed his pride for the Bank to be a subject of this audit by an official entity. He added that these results confirm Bank of Palestine’s adoption to a key strategy to support women as one of the most essential policies that perpetuates the Bank’s belief in the role of women and the importance of their participation in the economic and social lives, which in turn will reflect positively onto the Palestinian family, economy, and society as a whole, and alleviates the unemployment within our society. Mr. Shawa emphasized the Bank’s sound approach, in which the results of studies proved that the integration of women within the Palestinian labour market will significantly increase the total local production results. The participation of women within the Palestinian labour force represent only 17%, which is significantly less than the ratio of women’s participation in other Arab countries, which reaches up to 24%, and reaches up to 50% in developed countries. The participation of Palestinian women is supportive to the economy, and is currently underutilized; accordingly, the Bank began to apply this strategy internally and externally.
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