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 …

Women and unions in occupied Japan -- The erotic and the vulgar -- Wage struggles and struggle politics -- Teachers and …

East and North Africa / Nemat Shafik -- Men's work/women's work : employment, wages and occupational segregation in … Bethlehem / Jennifer Olmsted -- Gender segmention in the West Bank and Gaza strip : explaining the absence of Palestinian women … from the formal labor force / Rema Hammami -- Why women earn less? Gender-based factors affecting the earnings of self …