A Reader
Author: Nancy Sacks & Catherine Marrone
Nancy Sacks and Catherine Marrone have collected the classic and current readings that reflect the changing realities of gender and work in modern society. Promoting gender equality through balanced analysis of the sexe ... |
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Women Workers of the Unlucky Generation
Author: Jieyu Liu
Although it is generally believed in China that socialism raised women's status and paid work liberated them from the shackles of patriarchy, the economic reforms of the last two decades of the twentieth century meant wo ... |
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A Macro-Micro Approach
Author: World Bank
Trade liberalisation can create economic opportunities for poor people. But are these opportunities available to men and women equally? Do the gender disparities in access to education, health, credit, and other resource ... |
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Author: Gracia Clark
This new volume from SEA illuminates the importance of gender as a frame of reference in the study of economic life. The contributors are economic anthropologists who consider the role of gender and work in a cross-cultu ... |
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Becoming Self-employed in Taiwan and Korea
Author: Fengbin Chang
Self-employment is reemerging in modern society. Many scholars attribute this trend to globalization, flexible employment, and the rise of female labor force participation. However, such observations tend to be constrain ... |
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A Guide for Policy Makers and Practitioners
Author: Sevi Simavi, Clare Manuel & Mark C. Blackden
Promoting women s economic empowerment is increasingly seen as one of the most important driving forces behind economic growth and the fight against poverty. Women s economic participation as entrepreneurs, employees, an ... |
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Advancing Change in Higher Education
Author: Diana Bilimoria & Xiangfen Liang
Women faculty's participation in academic science and engineering is critical for future US global competitiveness, yet their underrepresentation particularly in senior positions remains a widespread problem. To overcome ... |
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Author: World Bank Publications
The 'Gender in Agriculture Sourcebook' provides an up-to-date understanding of gender issues and a rich compilation of compelling evidence of good practices and lessons learned to guide practitioners in integrating gende ... |
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Reducing Differences in Formality and Productivity of Firms
Author: Yaye Seynabou Sakho, Trine Lunde & Maria Arribas-Banos
Bolivia s informal economic sector is the largest in Latin America, and women-owned businesses tend to be overrepresented in the informal sector and to be less profitable than firms in the formal sector. This study seeks ... |
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Divisions of Labor and Cultural Change in Late Imperial and Modern China
Author: Bryna Goodman & Wendy Larson
Bringing together the work of distinguished China historians, anthropologists, and literary and film scholars, Gender in Motion raises provocative questions about the diversity of gender practices during the late imperia ... |
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A Case Study Approach
Author: Jacqueline DeLaat
This brief collection of cases is designed to help students and employees gain a hands-on understanding of gender issues in the workplace and to provide the necessary tools to handle those issues. Based on actual legal c ... |
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Author: OZGE OZAY
This dissertation analyzes the effects of technological change, capital intensity and increased trade activity on the gender/ skill differentiated employment in the trade-related sub-sectors of the Turkish manufacturing ... |
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Author: World Bank, Jorge Saba Arbache & Quentin Wodon
Gender inequality in the labor market remains a pressing problem of contemporary Africa. Notwithstanding the existence of large variations across countries with regard to male and female labor market outcomes, available ... |
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Author: Maria Minniti
Gender Issues in Entrepreneurship reviews the growing literature on female entrepreneurship and women-owned businesses across various disciplines (economics, psychology, sociology, anthropology, etc.) to show that observ ... |
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Author: Sonia Khan
Gender and Tourism: Understanding Male and Female Tourist Behavior, is an in-depth comparative study identifying the preferences, participation, duties and responsibilities of male and female tourists. The research has i ... |
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The Struggle for Interpretive Power in Gender and Development
Author: Andrea Cornwall, Elizabeth Harrison & Ann Whitehead
This collection brings together leading feminist thinkers who examine the struggles for interpretive power which underlies international development. Questions why the insights from years of feminist gender and developm ... |
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Moroccan Women and the Revoicing of Tradition
Author: Deborah Kapchan
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1996 Gender on the Market is a study of Moroccan women's expressive culture and the ways in which it both determines and responds to current transformations ... |
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Author: Rania Antonopoulos, Nil Fer Agatay & Sara Hsu
This book is about the gendered economic impacts of the current global financial crisis. The edited volume, from an international set of contributors, looks at the impacts of the crisis and crisis policies from a gend ... |
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New Research Perspectives
Author: Lydia Morris & E. Stina Lyon
This collection of papers from the 1993 BSA `Research Imaginations' conference explores the interpenetration of the public and private spheres. The book comprises two sections, one dealing with aspects of employment and ... |
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A Poverty Reduction Strategy?
Author: Allison Loconto
Since microcredit emerged as a favored program by donors in the 1990s, there have been numerous claims about its capacity to alleviate poverty and empower women. This shift in development policy thinking came about as po ... |
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