More Gaza companies hire female security guards
More public and private institutions in the socially conservative Gaza Strip are being served by women security guards.
Reem Sukkar, who works at the Carrefour Mall in Gaza City, is one of the Gaza Strip's first women security guards.
“My dream is to open a women-only security company in the Gaza Strip,” Sukkar told Al-Monitor.
“My husband works in security and he had many books on security work that I was constantly reading. I love crime mysteries and everything related to security. I was once at my bank and I saw a woman arguing with a male security guard. He could not resolve the issue because she was a woman and he could not touch her because we live in a conservative Islamic society. That was in 2015, and that is when I got the idea to study security sciences at a college in Gaza,” she said.
More women in Gaza are taking up professions that were once monopolized by men. Several internationally funded projects have encouraged the inclusion of women in the Gaza workforce. Rapid population growth has brought both challenges and opportunities, and some institutions are now requesting female security staff to meet growing needs.
