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 proposes a critical overview of the most recent historical research on women …

Foreword -- Ch 1 Introduction -- Part I Cross Cultural Foundational Issues -- Ch 2 Women’s Enrollments in STEM in … Divide -- Part II Exemplar Disciplines -- Ch 5 Data on Women in the Scientific Workforce -- Ch 6 Women in Mathematics -- Ch 7 … Women in Statistics -- Ch 8 Computer Science -- Part III Policies and Programs -- Ch 9 Promising Programs—A Cross …

This book provides new evidence on the magnitude and sources of pay inequalities between women and men in European …

Background) migrant women in Australia. Newly developed and sophisticated econometric methods are used to analyse the labour … market status of both NESB migrant and Australian born women. It shows that NESB migrant women are over represented in …