Airline flies concept of “women-only” workplace

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'In the Gulf region, where gender restrictions keep the majority of educated women at home, an airline company has come up with a unique formula to encourage a female workforce within its ranks.

Eithad Airways has opened an all-female customer call center in the university city of Al Ain, about two hours east of its main office at Abu Dhabi International Airport, the New York Times reported.

The call center opened in March 2011 with 80 workers and, since then, the staff has more than doubled, according to the newspaper.

“They’re more comfortable, and their families are more comfortable,” Samia Barj, manager of the center reportedly said, in reference to cultural mores that keep women from mingling with men who are not related.”'