Emirati Women are straggling to find suitable job for them and they were not allowed to work in mixed environment as some tribes are still conservative in terms of norms and traditions that women should work in female-only environment and it is considered a shame to the family members if one of their relatives is a women working outside their household.
Our traditions comes from our religion as some people interpreted a saying "Men are maintainer of women" as Men should be the one in control and the one who should be the provider for his family.
However nowadays men are more aware that there are more meaning behind that saying and it has nothing to with who should be in control and the provider for the family. which is why women are working in different fields and in different environments.
Working in a mixed environment should not be considered a shame, however mixing working professionally and behaving wrongly is the issue. As there are rules and limitations on how to work with the opposite gender.
