...[W]omen’s labor struggles in MENA are complicated by growing rifts between Islamist and liberal secular political forces that have engulfed the region since the outbreak of the Arab Spring...The privatization of government services [in Jordan], for example, especially impacts sectors where many women work. Further eroding job security is the rampant use of temporary contracts in clerical jobs typically staffed by women, which helps bosses avoid providing benefits that come with long-term employment. [T]he gathering led to the creation of a shared agenda that includes: - help women develop organizational capacity to promote and take on leadership roles within unions - address gender violence and promote protections for women workers from abuse - confront the gender impacts of “precarious work,” or unstable, temporary jobs - build a regional network of women trade unionists