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Deborah M. Figart
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Tonia L. Warnecke
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30 Aug 2013
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Collection:
Economics 2013
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9780857930958.00007
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Handbook of Research on Gender and Economic Life
Edited by
Deborah M. Figart
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Tonia L. Warnecke
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30 Aug 2013
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9780857930941
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9780857930958
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9780857930958
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592
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Economics 2013
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Front Matter
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Contributors
Foreword
Introduction
PART I: ANALYTICAL TOOLS
Chapter 1: A social provisioning approach to gender and economic life
Chapter 2: Feminist economics as a theory and method
Chapter 3: Intersectionality
Chapter 4: Gender, well-being and civil society
Chapter 5: Gender and caring
Chapter 6: Teaching and learning for economic life
PART II: INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXTS FOR PROVISIONING
Chapter 7: Gender and provisioning under different capitalisms
Chapter 8: International development institutions, gender and economic life
Chapter 9: Infrastructure and gender equity
Chapter 10: How gendered institutions constrain women’s empowerment
PART III: INFORMAL AND FORMAL WORK
Chapter 11: Informal work
Chapter 12: Gender inequality in the workplace
Chapter 13: Occupational segregation and the gender wage gap in the US
Chapter 14: Race and ethnicity in the workplace
Chapter 15: Discrimination in gay and lesbian lives
PART IV: EMPLOYMENT POLICIES
Chapter 16: Low-wage mothers on the edge in the US
Chapter 17: Employer-oriented schedule flexibility, gender and family care
Chapter 18: Work–family reconciliation policies in Europe
Chapter 19: The role of the government in work–family conflict in the US
PART V: MACROECONOMIC POLICIES, FINANCE AND CREDIT
Chapter 20: From micro-level gender relations to the macro economy and back again
Chapter 21: Central bank policy and gender
Chapter 22: Credit and self-employment
Chapter 23: Gender, debt and the housing/financial crisis
PART VI: HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, EDUCATION AND HEALTH
Chapter 24: Measuring gender disparities in human development
Chapter 25: Girls’ schooling and the global education and development agenda
Chapter 26: Intersecting sources of education inequality
Chapter 27: The health of the world’s women
Chapter 28: A case of gendered hazards and health effects for ultra-poor women
Chapter 29: Gender and food security
PART VII: CONTEMPORARY GLOBAL ISSUES
Chapter 30: Family migration in the US
Chapter 31: Environmental activism and gender
Chapter 32: Engendering peace, conflict and violence
Chapter 33: Trafficking and gender
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Economics and Finance
Radical and Feminist Economics
Sociology and Social Policy
Family and Gender
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