Sahar A. El-Sheneity

Email: [email protected] Work Ph: (202) 2-615-1322 Mobile Ph: (20100)-884-2826

Bibliography Sahar El-Sheneity had her B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Statistics from Cairo University in 1990 and 1995 respectively. She had her Ph.D. in Statistics from Cornell University in August 2003. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor at Cairo University, School of Economics and Political Sciences (Department of Statistics). Also, she is an Assistant Research Professor at the Social Research Center (SRC) of the American University in Cairo (AUC). After graduating from Cairo University as the top of her class, she held the position of a Teaching Assistant at the Department of Statistics. She worked on her M.Sc. thesis using the PAPCHILD data set to analyze differentials in infant mortality in Egypt using hazard models. Besides working as a teaching assistant, she worked at several research centers in Egypt; she worked at Al-Mishkat center for research and Training with Dr. Nader Fergany. She also worked at the Social Research Center (SRC) at the American University in Cairo (AUC) both with Dr. El-Tawila and Kathy Yount. In both centers, she worked at a variety of research topics in population research; infant and child mortality, child labor, education, poverty, gender differentials, etc… Her responsibilities in these projects varied from being involved in questionnaire design, developing programs for data entry, data cleanup and preparing files for data analysis to the actual statistical analysis and production of reports. She had her Ph.D. in Statistics from Cornell University in August 2003. During the course of her study, she worked as a teaching assistant at the department of economic and social statistics until Spring 2000 when she took a maternity leave from teaching and focused on her dissertation until graduation. During the academic year 2004/2005, she was a Visiting Researcher at the Office of Population Research (OPR) at Princeton University. She worked towards fulfilling the requirements of the certificate in Demography offered by OPR. She also worked on a research paper focusing on the effects of prenatal care and breastfeeding on infant mortality in Egypt using the Egypt IDHS 2003 data. While at Princeton, she also worked as a statistical programmer with Prof. Marta Tienda on Texas Higher Education Opportunities Project (THEOP). Besides her teaching responsibilities at Cairo University, she is currently working as an Assistant Professor at the Social Research Center at the American university in Cairo. She worked as the principal investigator of the project on the “Measuring the situation of women and their living conditions”1. The aim of the project was to forge networks with other research centers and NGOs active in the field of gender research in the Arab countries in order to help survey field instruments that are currently used in Arab countries to collect data on women’s daily lives. The aim was to identify the knowledge gaps in such instruments. We proposed a new instrument that covers identified knowledge gaps and provides rich data on indicators of women’s empowerment in the local context, as well as a clear portray of women’s daily lives. The suggested tool has been piloted in three settings in Egypt. Study summary report has been issued. Several analytical reports have been issued using the collected data like relation between women’s empowerment and their exposure to spousal violence2. In this collaborative report, the aim was to study the relation between women's empowerment and their exposure to domestic violence. Other risk factors associated with women's exposure to domestic violence were also studied. Three other analytical reports were issued3; women’s empowerment; concepts and realities, diagnostic of women needs and challenges and the relation between women’s work and their empowerment. A plan of converting these reports to peer-reviewed articles/book chapter is currently under study. She has recently worked on “Fertility Plateau in Egypt, Jordan and Syria: Underlying Determinants and Policy Implications” funded by UNDP and “In-depth anaylsis of I- WISH data - Iraq” funded by UNFPA. At the time being, Dr. El-Sheneity is working with UN-WOMEN on a project related to establishing safe communities free from violence against women and girls. The focus is on the safety of women and girls in the public sphere. The first two phases of the project have been implemented and currently phase three of mid-term impact evaluation is underway.

Sahar El-Sheneity, PhD Dec. 2012

1 Funded by Ford Foundation and implemented in collaboration with NCW. 2 Funded by USAID in partnership with NCW. 3 Funded by UN-WOMEN.

2 Sahar A. El-Sheneity

Email: [email protected] Work Ph: (202) 2-615-1322 Mobile Ph: (20100) 884-2826

Education 2003: Ph.D. Cornell University, Statistics. Ph.D. dissertation: “Alternative Methods to the Maximum Likelihood in the Logistic Discrimination Model.”

1995: M.Sc. Cairo University, School of Economics and Political Science, Statistics, with grade Excellent. Master thesis: “A Parametric Hazards Model Approach to the Study of the Determinants of Infant Mortality in Egypt.”

1990: B.Sc. Cairo University, School of Economics and Political Science, Statistics, with degree Excellent with honor.

Teaching Cairo University, School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Statistics (April 2004 – current): Assistant Professor.

Maternity Leave (Fall 2001-March 2004).

Cornell University, Department of Statistics (Fall 1997–Spring 2000): Teaching assistant for introductory courses in statistics and regression models.

Cairo University, School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Statistics (Nov. 1990 – June 1997): Teaching assistant for introductory courses in statistics and mathematics, regression models, random sampling, demography, applied statistics, and experiment design.

Research Social Research Center, The American University in Cairo (April 2006-current): Assistant Research Professor, worked on the following projects:  Researcher, “In-depth analysis of Iraq I-WISH data”. UNFPA (2012).  Researcher, “Fertility Plateau in Egypt, Jordan and Syria: Underlying Determinants and Policy Implications”, UNDP (2011-2012)  Principal Investigator, “Safe cities free of violence against women and girls” (Phase II). UNIFEM (2010-2011).

3  Principal Investigator, “Safe cities free of violence against women and girls” (Phase I). UNIFEM (2009-2010).  Principal Investigator, “Combating violence against women, Empowerment and domestic violence”. USAID & NCW (2008-2009).  Principal Investigator, “Analyzing data on Measuring the situation of women and living conditions” UNIFEM (2008).  Principal Investigator, “Measuring the situation of women and living conditions.” FORD Foundation (2006-2007).

Office of Population Research, Princeton University (Sep. 2004-Aug. 2005): Visiting researcher; worked towards the certificate in demography from OPR. She was also the statistical programmer of Texas Higher Education Opportunities Project (THEOP) with Prof. Marta Tienda.

Social Research Center, The American University in Cairo (April 1996–June 1997): Research assistant with Kathy M. Yount (Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health). Project on gender preference in child health in Minya. Responsibilities: designing programs for data entry and data cleanup and supervising such processes.

Social Research Center, The American University in Cairo (Nov. 1995, July 1996– May 1997): Research Assistant with Dr. Sahar El-Tawila. Responsibilities: teaching Stata to other researchers in the group, designing a Data Base program for data cleanup and supervising the data entry and cleanup processes.

Almishkat Center for Research and Training (Dec. 1992-April 1996): Research assistant with Dr. Nader Fergany. Social development projects in Egypt and Arab countries. Responsibilities: helping in questionnaire design, supervising data entry and cleanup, data analysis and producing final reports. These projects include:  Social Development in Assuit (Jan. 1993),  Child Labor in Arab Countries (Sept. 1993),  On the Distribution of Social Position in Egypt with Particular Reference to Gender Differentials (Dec. 1993),  Labor Market Returns to Education and Poverty in Egypt: Rewards or Punishments (March 1994),  Urban Women, Work and Poverty Alleviation in Egypt (Feb. 1994),  Survey of Access to Primary Education and Aquisition of Basic Literacy Skills in Three Governorates in Egypt (Oct. 1994),  Human Development in Egypt, An Alternative Approach (Dec. 1994) (Arabic edition),  Opinion Poll for Alahram Weekly on Pluralism in Egypt, Terrorism and Naturalization with Israel (Jan. 1995),  Determinants of Child Health in Six Arab Countries, Algeria, Egypt, Mauritania, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. A Preliminary Analysis based on the Arab Mother and Child Health Survey Data Sets, 1990/1993 (March 1996),

4  Baseline Information to Plan for Universal Access to Primary Education in Egypt. I. Trends in the Extent of Access to Primary Education by Gender, Governorate by Urban / Rural Residence (June 1996.)

Publications and professional work El-Sheneity, S. (2010), Work and spousal violence in Egypt: what is the relation? Workshop on Gender Based Violence in the MENA Region. Mediterranean research meeting, 24-27 April 2010, Montecatini, Italy.

El-Sheneity, S. (2009), Women’s Empowerment in Egypt: Evidence and Potential Sources. XXVI IUSSP International Population Conference, 27 September – 2 October 2009, Marrakech, Morocco.

El-Sheneity, S. and Al-Sharmani, M. (2008), Combating Violence Against Egyptian Women: Empowerment and Domestic Violence. The Social Research Center, The American University in Cairo, Analytical report. National Council for Women (NCW), Cairo, Egypt.

El-Sheneity, S. (2008), Women’s Empowerment in Egypt: Concepts and Realities. The Social Research Center, The American University in Cairo, Analytical report (UNIFEM).

El-Sheneity, S. (2008), Diagnosis of Women’s Needs and Challenges. The Social Research Center, The American University in Cairo. Analytical report (UNIFEM).

El-Sheneity, S. (2008), Work and Women Empowerment. The Social Research Center, The American University in Cairo, Analytical report (UNIFEM).

El-Sheneity, S. (2007), “Measuring the Situation of Women and Living Conditions”. The Social Research Center, The American University in Cairo, Technical report (Ford Foundation).

El-Sheneity, S. (2006), Women’s Empowerment in the Arab Region (2006). The Social Research Center, The American University in Cairo. Review paper submitted to advisory committee for the project on “Measuring the Situation of Women and Living Conditions”.

Negm, A.H. El-Tawila, S. and El-Sheneity, S. (1995), Determinants of Infant Mortality in Egypt; A Parametric Hazards Model Approach. The 30th annual conference on statistics, computer science, and operations research. Institute of Statistical Studies and Research (ISSR), Cairo University, Vol. (3), Part (V), p: 118- 137.

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