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Information Sciences Letters

Information Sciences Letters

Abstract

This research paper aims to identify the psychological, social, and economic effects of the Coronavirus pandemic on Saudi women working in the private sector and present many recommendations that contribute to limit these effects. To achieve the objectives of this research, the social survey approach was adopted by using the random sample method. The study was applied to a sample consisting of (395) Saudi women working in the private sector in different small and medium enterprises affiliated with the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development. A questionnaire was used to collect the necessary information and data. The results revealed that the participants agreement degree on the social, psychological, and economic effects of the Coronavirus pandemic was high with a mean of (2.38 out of 3) for social effects, (2.65 out of 3) for psychological effects, and (2.34 out of 3) for economic effects. In the light of these results, the researcher recommends regulating the contractual relationship between workers in the private sector and employers, achieving gender equality in the labor market in line with the Sustainable Development Plan 2030, strengthening support programs, and developing the private sector through community partnership to reduce economic effects on the private sector, and developing systems and policies that guarantee the rights of working women socially and economically to reduce the high rates of unemployment during pandemics.

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