First Published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

In this book, the author builds on decades of complex research to examine the gender pay gap and the unequal distribution of labor between couples in the home.

In the contentious debate about women and work, conventional wisdom holds that middle-class women can decide if they work, while working-class women need to wor

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

The authors highlight how structural circumstances in countries with various degrees of industrialization are associated with specific policies. The analyses of