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 …

Unternehmensberatungen in Deutschland -- Doing Gender -- Gendered Organizations. … Unternehmensberatungen in Deutschland Doing Gender Gendered Organizations Die Zielgruppen Dozenten und Studenten der Betriebswirtschaftslehre …

This book explores how a growing religious discourse is advocating for change in women’s employment participation in … Arab societies. It provides a historical and cultural overview of women in Arab societies as well as issues of homogeneity … of traditional Islamic understanding of the role of women and their economic and social participation, which is rooted in …

Introduction -- Chapter 1: Locating Female Business Owners in the Historiography -- Chapter 2: Women and their … photographs are analysed and linked to demonstrate conclusively that women in nineteenth-century England were far more prevalent … in business than previously acknowledged. Moreover, women were able to establish and expand their businesses far beyond …

female employees if women are less driven by pecuniary considerations in their choice of employers than men. Employers may … exploit this to increase their profits at the detriment of women’s wages. Empirically, it is indeed found that women’s labour …

individual member states of the EU, this book features six country-specific studies - covering Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy … HOMEOWNERSHIP AND A LOW DEGREE OF PRIVATE PENSIONS -- Germany: Ageing Economy with Rising Pension Gap, Stable Mortgage Market and … Well-Developed Rental Market (Sebastien Clerc-Renaud, Dirk Ulbricht, Institut für Finanzdienstleistungen Hamburg, Germany …