Women and the Economy: A Reader A Reader

This reader is designed for use as a primary or supplementary text for courses on women's role in the economy. Both interdisciplinary and heterodox in its approach, it showcases feminist economic analyses that utilize insights from institutionalism as well as neoclassical economics. Including both classic and newer selections from a broad range of areas, each section includes an introduction with background material, as well as discussion questions, exercises, and lists of key terms an further readings.

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Ellen Mutari, Deborah M. Figart

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This reader is designed for use as a primary or supplementary text for courses on women's role in the economy. Both interdisciplinary and heterodox in its approach, it showcases feminist economic analyses that utilize insights from institutionalism as well as neoclassical economics. Including both classic and newer selections from a broad range of areas, each section includes an introduction with background material, as well as discussion questions, exercises, and lists of key terms an further readings.

Product details

• Authors: Deborah M. Figart, Ellen Mutari, Deborah M Figart, Figart Deborah M., Mutari Ellen
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 31.05.2003
• Subject: Guides > Law, job, finance; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries
• EAN: 9780765609960
• ISBN: 978-0-7656-0996-0
• Pages: 368
• Dimensions (packing): 15.6 x 23.4 cm
• Weight (packing): 520 g
• Subjects: Held, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory, occupational segregation, Economic theory & philosophy, follow, Institutional Economics, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Economic theory and philosophy, Census, Social Reproduction, Young Men, CEDAW, Labor force participation, single mothers, black women, Statistical Discrimination, Vice Versa, welfare reform, intersectionality studies, Violating, wage gap, social policy research, gender wage gap, labor market analysis, married women, feminist economic theory, feminist economists, labor market discrimination, women's labor force participation, Comparable Worth, qualitative economic methods, gendered labor market outcomes, Women's Increased Labor Force, White Male Workers, Martin Tolich, Gender Based Wage Gap