Chapter 1: Background: Women and Work -- Chapter 2: Gender Inequality in Employment -- Chapter 3: Women’s Work in Modern Service Sector -- Chapter 4: Women in Modern Industrial Sector -- Chapter 5: Women in Domestic Work -- Chapter 6: Measurement Problem of Women’s Work -- Chapter 5: Way...

1. Introduction -- 2. An overview of legal measures, voluntary rules, indexes, and certifications concerning gender diversity in the banking industry -- 3. Women and bank performance: theoretical background and literature review -- 4. Data on female representation in banks -- 5. The gender pay...

Chapter 1: Purpose: Walk the Talk -- Chapter 2: Mission: What is FinTech? -- Chapter 3: Mindset: Innovation and Transformation -- Chapter 4: The Past: Traditional FS and Technology Culture -- Chapter 5: Change: Technology, Transformation and Communication -- Chapter 6: Reality: The issues we...

In the last decades, women’s role in the workforce has dramatically changed, though gender inequality persists and for women, gender identity still prevails over work identity. It is important not to forget or diminish the historical role of women in the labour market though and this book...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- 2. Gender Inequality: General Areas of Gender Segregation -- 3. Gender Inequality: Specific Areas of Gender Segregation -- 4. Consequences of Gender Segregation in the Contemporary Work Environment: Barriers to Women's Employment, Development and Advancement -- 5....

Although Japanese economic development is often discussed, less attention is given to social development, and much less to gender related issues. By examining Japanese experiences related to gender, the authors seek insights relevant to the current developing countries. Simultaneously, the book...

The book assesses the development experience by reflecting on a number of aspects, su­­ch as growth in relation to employment, regional imbalances and rural-urban distribution. Further, it examines educational attainment and human capital formation issues in the context of the skill shortages...

Outlining important policy requirements for Bangladesh to become an upper middle-income country, the book presents research work conducted during the project “Changing Labor Markets in Bangladesh: Understanding Dynamics in Relation to Economic Growth and Poverty,” sponsored by the...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Expansion and expectation: footloose-ness -- Chapter 3: Did we explain? -- Chapter 4: Alternative explanation from labour studies -- Chapter 5: Transition in Indian employment -- Chapter 6: Definitional Dilemma -- Chapter 7: Process of Informalisation of...

Chapter 1: Introduction –Towards an Understanding of Informality and Precarity and of Some Institutional Developments and Challenges in Labour Markets and Industrial Relations in a Globalizing India -- Section 1 Mapping and Understanding Informal Labour -- Chapter 2: What Do We Know About...