Intorduction : Theorizing the gendering of the knowledge economy : comparative approaches / Sylvia Walby -- Gender and the conceptualization of the knowledge economy in comparison / Karen Shire -- Comparative livelihood security systems from a gender perspective, with a focus on Japan / Mari...

Introduction. Labor and Gender in Japan's Digital Economy -- The Digital Economy -- Gender in the Digital Economy -- Labor in the Digital Economy -- Methodological Considerations I: Techno-social Assemblages and Technological Duplicities -- Methodological Considerations II: Virtual and Actual...

The latent function of sex segregation in the Japanese business system -- The Japanese way of change : recasting institutional coordination, sustaining gender inequality -- Studying sex segregation in five Japanese companies -- Women as cheap labor : salaries, promotions, ghettos, and the...