000, sorry if I came across sounding a bit sexist when I told angel6975 to consider accepting the offer if he/she is a female. I'm not sexist, but there are realities in the job market you have to accept as just realities.
One of those realities is that females find work much much faster than men, but they don't get paid as much as men... that's just how it works here. On average, for a man and a woman of the same caliber and qualification, the man will ALWAYS make significantly more money than the woman. That's not just in the Middle East, it's even here in the U.S., for every $1 a male worker makes, his equivalent female worker makes only $0.63, and of course in Qatar it's a significantly BIGGER difference than the U.S., so if angel is going to evaluate the offer on bases of being a female, the offer is still not good, but it really isn't as bad as if it was offered to a man.
Another reality of the job market here is that allowances are granted on bases of social condition/status. Meaning, the housing allowance or transportation allowance is offered to you only if someone of your condition would need that allowance.. it's not part of the basic salary.. it's an allowance to accommodate your condition/status in society. A practical translation of this means that men get housing allowances more often than women and of higher amounts than women because traditionally in Qatari society men are the bread earners and the ones expected to support a family, make a living space available, etc. etc. So, their social condition/status requires them to provide a housing venue, and therefore they are offered housing allowances more often than women and in BIGGER amounts than women. The opposite is true, women are traditionally NOT the ones who constitute the main pillar of a home, the main economic burden is NOT on their backs, they live with their husbands or parents, and therefore, their social condition/status does NOT require them to provide a living place, and consequently they are offered housing allowances much less frequently then men and even when they ARE actually offered a housing allowance, it's normally much less than the allowance offered to the man in the same position/grade.
000, sorry if I came across sounding a bit sexist when I told angel6975 to consider accepting the offer if he/she is a female. I'm not sexist, but there are realities in the job market you have to accept as just realities.
One of those realities is that females find work much much faster than men, but they don't get paid as much as men... that's just how it works here. On average, for a man and a woman of the same caliber and qualification, the man will ALWAYS make significantly more money than the woman. That's not just in the Middle East, it's even here in the U.S., for every $1 a male worker makes, his equivalent female worker makes only $0.63, and of course in Qatar it's a significantly BIGGER difference than the U.S., so if angel is going to evaluate the offer on bases of being a female, the offer is still not good, but it really isn't as bad as if it was offered to a man.
Another reality of the job market here is that allowances are granted on bases of social condition/status. Meaning, the housing allowance or transportation allowance is offered to you only if someone of your condition would need that allowance.. it's not part of the basic salary.. it's an allowance to accommodate your condition/status in society. A practical translation of this means that men get housing allowances more often than women and of higher amounts than women because traditionally in Qatari society men are the bread earners and the ones expected to support a family, make a living space available, etc. etc. So, their social condition/status requires them to provide a housing venue, and therefore they are offered housing allowances more often than women and in BIGGER amounts than women. The opposite is true, women are traditionally NOT the ones who constitute the main pillar of a home, the main economic burden is NOT on their backs, they live with their husbands or parents, and therefore, their social condition/status does NOT require them to provide a living place, and consequently they are offered housing allowances much less frequently then men and even when they ARE actually offered a housing allowance, it's normally much less than the allowance offered to the man in the same position/grade.
I hope that clarifies my point.