This book offers an analysis of the key issues faced by women in the labor market in the 21st century. It identifies the factors that inhibit women's participat

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

This volume considers how women are shaping the global economic landscape through their labor, activism, and multiple discourses about work. Bringing together a

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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