On the activities of Self Employed Women's Association, Ahmedabad, India.
In de introductie op de stand van zaken binnen vrouwenstudies en de vrouwenbeweging in Rusland, de Oekraïne en andere ex-Sovjetstaten wordt met name ingegaan op vrouwengeschiedenis en de invloed van nationalisme op de vrouwenbeweging. In het eerste deel komt een aantal historisc…
"Applying a feminist and environmentalist approach to her investigation of how the changing global economy affects rural women, Carolyn Sachs focuses on land ownership and use, cropping systems, and women's work with animals in highly industrialized as well as developing countri…
"The distribution of income, the rate of pay raises, and the mobility of employees is crucial to understanding labor economics. Although research abounds on the distribution of wages across individuals in the economy, wage differentials within firms remain a mystery to economist…
"Why do so few women occupy positions of power and prestige? Virginia Valian uses concepts and data from psychology, sociology, economics, and biology to explain the disparity in the professional advancement of men and women. According to Valian, men and women alike have implici…
"Significant because [it] traces the development process from the non-industrial societies to present-day socialist nations, includes scholars from the first and third worlds, and provides data for a comparative analysis of structural changes in gender relations, links productio…
Provides a comprehensive assessment of national trends in inequalities in 30 European countries.
Provides a comprehensive assessment of national trends in inequalities in 30 European countries.
Attempts to determine the role of domestic workers both in past and present times. Analyses the situation of domestic workers, and contributes to improve knowledge concerning their individual characteristics (gender, ethnic group, religion), origin, motivation and cultural ident…
"Work and Family - Allies or Enemies? offers a fresh new lens for viewing the real struggles that business professionals face in their daily battle to find ways of "getting a life" and "having it all." Based on a pioneering study that surveyed more than 800 business professional…
"This volume includes entries addressing key concepts in feminist economics as well as feminist economic critiques and reconstructions of major economic theories and policy debates. The material is presented in an accessible manner and will be of interest to scholars and teacher…
Focuses on the period from 1980 to 1990.
Why are women such prominent workers in the global marketplace? Why do so many perform jobs that involve carework? What political forces have made these women key participants in globalization? What are the consequences for the women themselves, for their families, and for socie…
De auteur belicht in dit boek de positie van vrouwen voor en na val van het staatssocialisme in Oost-Duitsland, Polen, Tsjecho-Slowakije en Hongarije en toont hoe de thema's rond gender vandaag zijn in het hart van potentieel explosieve processen van sociale en politieke transfo…