Women in the Age of Economic Transformation: Gender Impact of Reforms in Post-Socialist and Developing Countries - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 041510422X ISBN 13: 9780415104227

Publisher: Routledge, 1994

Synopsis

Changes are sweeping the world economy and are most apparent in post-socialist Europe and in the developing world. This volume examines the impact these changes are having on women. The authors discuss the evidence of gender bias and reach some telling if unsurprising conclusions. Regardless of the country involved, the findings point to consistent female disadvantage in the transformation process.

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Women in the Age of Economic Transformation The world economy is changing and nowhere more so than in post-socialist Europe and the developing world. This book assesses the impact of these changes on women, unearthing evidence of gender bias and drawing some telling conclusions.

Review:

"A useful addtion to undergraduate and graduate interdisciplinary collections in amthropology, women's studies, labor economics, and edconomic devleopment."
-"Choice
"The major contribution of this book lies in providing further evidence on economic and social conditions of women and in lending empirical support that reveals the gender biases of recent economic policy...the book is a useful addition to literature on women and economic change throughout the world and a welcome effort that contributes to moving economics in the direction of more substantive analysis of economic processes."
-"Journal of Economic Issues
"With a truly global scale, this book will be a useful resource for those teaching gender and ...' courses in planning, geography, or development studies
."
-"Environment/Planning
"With a truly global scope, this book will be a useful resource for those teaching 'gender and ...' courses in planning, geography, or development studies
."
-"1997 Environment/Planning

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 041510422X
• ISBN 13: 9780415104227
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 248
• Editor: Aslanbeigui Nahid, Pressman Steven, Summerfield Gale