Chapter 1 Introduction -- Part I Women’s Family Responsibilities and Employment in China -- Chapter 2 Market Wage, Child Care, and the Employment of Married Women in China -- Chapter 3 Parent Care and Middle-aged Women’s Employment -- Part II The Gender Gap in China’s Labor Market and...

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...

Introduction: Current Conditions of Work and Family in Japan -- 1 The Factors of Fertility Decline in Japan -- 2 The Japanese Working Custom and Women’s Employment Participation -- 3 Work and Family in Japan from the Comparative Perspective -- 4 Family Formation and Disparity -- 5 The...

1. Discovering a Global Perspective -- 2. ‘Se mantiene de lavar’: The Laundry Business in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Mexico City -- 3. Investing in Enterprise: Women Entrepreneurs in Colonial ‘South Africa’ -- 4. A Mosaic of Entrepreneurship: Female Traders in Moscow, 1810s-1850s...

Noch immer sind in Deutschland weniger Frauen in Führungspositionen als Männer, trotz vielfältiger Bemühungen seitens der Unternehmen, der Politik und den Frauen selbst. Werfen wir den Blick in unsere Nachbarländer, scheint es in Skandinavien oder Frankreich einfacher zu gelingen, Familie...

The book focuses on the historical, political, economic, and cultural elements of Korea and the strong influence these have on women leaders in the nation. Gender inequality and underutilization of female talent are deeply rooted and widespread in Korean society, and women’s appointment to...

Chapter 1: Introduction. Women’s work in the Netherlands and Java, 1830-1940 -- Chapter 2: An exceptional empire? Dutch colonialism in comparative perspective -- Chapter 3: Industrious women in an imperial economy: The Cultivation System and its consequences -- Chapter 4: Industrialisation,...

Introduction -- The One-Way Error Component Regression Model -- The Two-Way Error Component Regression Model -- Test of Hypotheses with Panel Data -- Heteroskedasticity and Serial Correlation in the Error Component Model -- Seemingly Unrelated Regressions with Error Components -- Simultaneous...

1. Introduction -- 2. The Elements of a Panel -- 3. The Production Process -- 4. The Market for Panel Research -- 5. Institutional Panels -- 6. Panels for Media Markets -- 7. Special Panels -- 8. Product and Period Description -- 9. Shops and Household Characteristics -- 10. Facts of the Retail...