The transformation of women's lives over the past century is among the most significant and far-reaching of social and economic phenomena, affecting not only wo

Economic agents can be male or female; they interact in families and households as well as in firms and markets. Yet it is only recently that economists have be

Gender is now recognized as a fundamental organizing principle for economic as well as social life, and related research has grown at an unprecedented pace in t

This book envisages a different form of our economies where care work and care-full relationships are central to social and cultural life. It sets out a feminis

Presents 27 articles dating from 1923 to 1994 on gender differences, female labour supply, male-female wage differences and on the historical significance of wo