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Table 13

Enrolment in and completion of technical education and vocational training

No.	Field of Training	Training body	Entrants		Graduates
			Males	Females	Males	Females
1.	Industrial	Ministry of Technical Education and Vocational Training	6 013	26	3 484	23
2.	Commercial	Ministry of Technical Education and Vocational Training, National Institute for Administrative Sciences	1 306	587	486	229
3.	Agricultural	Ministry of Technical Education	423	-	203	-
4.	Health	Ministry of Health	3 366	1 122	1 433	480
5.	Fishing	Ministry of Technical Education and Vocational Training	32	-	32	-
6.	Hotel Industry	Ministry of Technical Education	67	1	59	-
7.	Electronics and computing	National Institute for Administrative Sciences, Ministry of Communications - Institute of Communications	172	68	116	53
8.	Development administration	National Institute for Administrative Sciences	11 755	1 973	593	166
Total			52 314 86%	3 777 14%	6 411 87%	951 13%
			26 922		7 362

242. Obstacles:

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  The infrastructure of the training institutes is concentrated in the main towns;
  
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  There is a lack of any great variety in specialist fields considered acceptable by females, such as health, commerce and information;
  
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  The training institutions in other fields, e.g., technical fields, are unequipped to take females;
  
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  There is no awareness-raising to provide information on the training opportunities available to females;
  
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  The overall image of technical education and vocational training is such that they are regarded as male-oriented by the community.
  

243. Continuous training (short courses):

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  There is a move by the Government to increase training opportunities for women and equip them with the skills needed to help them obtain work opportunities, as a result of which the number of bodies offering short training for females are increasing;
  
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  The activities offered by such training bodies are similar and the type of training is limited and consequently lacking in innovation;
  
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  These bodies fail to coordinate in planning the type of training which can be offered to females;
  

Table 14

Number of females enrolled in training (government and private)

No.	Body	Ownership	Number of females enrolled	Percentage	Remarks
1.	Women’s training centres	Government	2 169	6	Services provided free or at nominal charge
2.	Productive family centres	Government	3 940	10	Targeted at the impoverished groups of inhabitants
3.	Ministry of Technical Education and Vocational Training	Government	1 134	3	Targeted at communities in secondary towns
4.	Yemen Women’s Federation	Civil	4 328	11	Is attempting to expand its activities to several regions
5.	Non-governmental organizations	Civil	12 000	31	- Focus on females - Basic training fields: fabric and textile work (traditional and modern)
	Private centres	Private	15 000	39
	Total		38 571	100

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  The activities of government bodies and civil-society institutions are confined to specific fields, such as training in fabric and textile work (sewing, tailoring and embroidery), which accounts for 45 per cent of the opportunities offered by such bodies, followed by computer training and household management;
  
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  The private bodies mainly offer training in various fields of computing.
  

244. Employment:

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  Statistics show that female workers account for 25 per cent of the total workforce and are mainly concentrated in the following economic activities: agriculture, health and education;
  
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  Data also indicate that 93 per cent of the workforce is unskilled and largely illiterate and that 7 per cent is educated to secondary level or higher;
  
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  Women tend to be active in the conversion industries and essentially in textiles and textile products, working for themselves in small projects.
  

245. Obstacles:

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  Social customs and traditions;
  
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  The lax application of laws and legislation;
  
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  The widespread female illiteracy;
  
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  Limited training and retraining opportunities; there is no agricultural or technical training, for instance, and training opportunities in health are confined to nursing and in commerce to secretarial work, thereby creating a gap between the training opportunities available and the requirements of the job market.
  

246. Literacy: In all, there are 795 alphabetical literacy centres at which 45,668 students are taught. Of these, 7,687, or 17 per cent, are male and 37,981, or 83 per cent, are female.