migrant women: gender and migrant condition. Our findings suggest that migrant women do face this double disadvantage. In both …

Two decades of economic transition revealed that Russian women are on average less happy than men. This paper addresses …, with women, even if working, holding the main responsibility for housekeeping activities, is perceived as fair. Prime … results show that women's relative unhappiness is likely to be causes by their increasing earning powers with relative to men …

"A Short History of Transport in Japan from Ancient Times to the Present is a unique study: the first by a Western … book consults a range of technical, cultural, and political sources to tease out these interactions between society and … history of transport, and the development of future infrastructure, as well as those with a general interest in Japan …

Women's rising labor force participation since the 1960's was long seen as heralding decreasing gender inequalities …. According to influential social science writings this view has now to be revised; 'women friendly' policies bringing women into … the workforce are held to create major inequality tradeoffs between quantity and quality in women's jobs. Unintendedly …

-age population. Japan has been characterized by the least favorable work setting for women, as exemplified by the discontinuous … pattern of work among mothers, the large extent of wage gap between men and women, and the very low proportion of women … married women's labor force participation. Second, I will examine mothers' working pattern, especially focusing on the …

This paper investigates wage gaps between part- and full-time women workers in six OECD countries in the mid-1990s …-time workers. The paper finds a part-time wage penalty among women workers in all countries, except Sweden. Other than in Sweden …