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:
The infrastructure of the training institutes is concentrated in the main towns;
There is a lack of any great variety in specialist fields considered acceptable by females, such as health, commerce and information;
The training institutions in other fields, e.g., technical fields, are unequipped to take females;
There is no awareness-raising to provide information on the training opportunities available to females;
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):
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;
The activities offered by such training bodies are similar and the type of training is limited and consequently lacking in innovation;
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
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;
The private bodies mainly offer training in various fields of computing.
244. Employment:
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;
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;
Women tend to be active in the conversion industries and essentially in textiles and textile products, working for themselves in small projects.
245. Obstacles:
Social customs and traditions;
The lax application of laws and legislation;
The widespread female illiteracy;
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.
