The participation of women in agriculture and the role of women in society in the preindustrial period were remarkably … work was done by women, and plough cultivation, a system mostly dominated by men. In this article, we review the literature …. We also provide additional evidence showing that differences regarding the role of women across the two agricultural …

interview data collected from women of three different cohorts in urban China, this study challenges China's free …-market approach and demonstrates its negative impacts on women's work and family experiences. The book also explores urban women's non …

of 1980-2000. During this period, there is a special construct, called "women's prose", which is characterized by a … special genre and stylistic originality. We set ourselves the task to find out whether the concept of “women's prose” refers …

stable in Russian Civil Service: 70% women, 30% men. The main reasons of this process, as author supposes, are gender …

In the 1930s, the Soviet working class grew at an unprecedented rate, changing in size and social composition. Women at … the Gates is the story of a world remade, from above and from below, as women entered waged labor in unprecedented numbers …