This article examines how women's efforts at capital accumulation and wealth production in late nineteenth …-century United States were shaped and channeled by gender stereotypes. These stereotypes influenced the public attitudes held by both … men and women that called into question women's financial capabilities, their relationship to money and the financial …

This study focuses on gender-specific determinants of remittances in Germany. The conceptual approach considers gender … income differences in the country of residence cannot sufficiently explain why foreign national women remit less than men in … of naturalized German citizens, gender differences in the amount of remittances disappear. This can be explained by the …

WTO, improvements in women's household status will depend upon their wages and the gender wage gap. …This paper addresses the question, “does market work improve women's household status in rural China?” using survey … data of men and women working in Township and Village Enterprises in rural Jiangsu and Shandong. This paper measures …

(SMEs) in Vietnam. Analysis of the survey reveals that women who own SMEs are more likely than men who own similar firms to … provide employees with fringe benefits such as annual leave, social benefits, and health insurance. This gender effect exists …. The study also explores whether this finding is linked to gender differences in social networks and workforce structure …

household wealth in the United States varies by gender and family type. Evidence is found of large differences in observed … observable characteristics correlated with gender and wealth - such as position in the life cycle, education, and family earnings …

. Consistent with earlier studies, the analysis examines hypotheses relating to resources, objective demand, and gender attitudes …

Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this paper explores the gender dimensions of population control and land tenure … policies in a rural village in Northeast China. Gender bias was explicit in the implementation of both policies in the village … between 1980 and the mid-1990s. Since that time, explicit gender bias has been reduced and both policies have stressed market …

This article is concerned with the impact of gender, class, and ethnic divisions on inequities in wealth accumulation … Resources Survey, of the distribution of individual-level pension wealth to gauge the size of the gender wealth gap. It then … gender differences in wealth through methods such as these is vital because it enables us to explore the long-term buildup of …

success. This article investigates the determinants of a two-dimensional concept of microenterprise success for women in … their interactions is important to understanding the process of achieving success. Improving the economic outcomes of women …'s enterprises via better training and access to markets, credit, and capital equipment does not necessarily facilitate women …

This paper uses dictator experiments to examine gender differences in altruistic behavior in the United States when … decisions are made individually and jointly. In anonymous individual giving to charity, women give substantially more than men … only in mixed-sex groups, indicating a gender-based component to the value of the social signal sent. Although men and …