Women's work in the world economy

Author(s)

• International Economic Association. World Congress
• Folbre, Nancy

Bibliographic Information

Women's work in the world economy

edited by Nancy Folbre ... [et al.]

（Issues in contemporary economics : proceedings of the Ninth World Congress of the International Economic Association, Athens, Greece, v. 4）（International Economic Association conference volume, 101）

Macmillan, 1992

Note

"Proceedings of the Ninth World Congress of the International Economic Association, Athens, Greece"

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The very diverse papers in this volume share a common concern for the effect of public policies on women's work both in the market place and in the home. The introduction broadly outlines feminist challenges to traditional economics, while articles on women in both developing and advanced countries explore specific topics such as hours spent in housework, tax disincentives to female labour force participation, the penalties of part-time work, and the feminisation of poverty.

Table of Contents

• Preface - The International Economic Association - Acknowledgements - IEA Programme Committee - Local Organising Committee and Local Advisory Board - List of Authors and Editors - Abbreviations and Acronyms - Introduction: The Feminist Sphinx
• N.Folbre - PART 1: GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT - Women, Work and Agricultural Commercialisation in the Philippines
• M.Floro - Industrilisation Strategies and Gender Composition of Manufacturing Employment in Turkey
• G.Berik & N.Cagatay - Female-headed Households and Urban Poverty in Pakistan
• Y.Mohiuddin - The Hidden Roots of the African Food Problem: Looking within the Rural Household
• J.Koopman - PART 2: DEVELOPED COUNTRIES: GAINS AND LOSSES - Economic Development and the Feminisation of Poverty
• T.Allen - Economic Independence of Women in the Netherlands
• M.Bruyn-Hundt - The Impact of Demographic Trends in the United Kingdom on Women's Employment Prospects in the 1990s
• L.Evans - Union Density and Women's Relative Wage Gains
• J.Fletcher & S.Gill - PART 3: PART-TIME MARKET WORK: CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES - The Effects of Japanese Income Tax Provisions on Women's Labour Force Participation
• A.Shibata - Women and Part-time Work: France and Great Britain Compared
• M-G.David & C.Starzec - Differential Returns to Human Capital in Full-time and Part-time Employment
• J.F.Ermisch & R.E.Wright - Part-time Work in Sweden and its Implications for Gender Equality
• M.Sundstrom - PART 4: EDUCATION AND FAMILY POLICY - Re-entrance into the Labour Market of Women Graduates in Greece: The Results of an Experimental Training Programme
• A.P.Kottis - Women in Higher Education: Recent Changes in the United States
• M.K.Chamberlain - The Impact of Population Policies on Women in Eastern Europe: The German Democratic Republic
• L.Duggan

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Details

• NCID: BA13523832
• ISBN:
  • 0333537254
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Basingstoke, Hampshire
• Pages/Volumes: xxx, 264 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • DC20 : 331.41
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Women -- Employment -- Congresses
  • LCSH : Economics -- Congresses
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA11349304
  • BA01156541