This volume presents cross-nationally comparative evidence on income inequality trends, women's employment and its effect on inequality, the distribution of wealth, and the interaction of politics with inequality across several mainly high-income countries.

Intro -- Contents -- Chapter One: Driven by Debt: Bankruptcy and Financial Failure in American Families - Katherine Porter -- Part I: The Debtor Next Door -- Chapter Two: A Vulnerable Middle Class: Bankruptcy and Class Status - Elizabeth Warren and Deborah Thorne -- Chapter Three: Out of...

Through a detailed analysis of macroeconomic changes and individuals' lifetime employment trajectories, this book explains why Japan and Taiwan have experienced different levels of improvement in women's economic status over the last half century