Socioeconomics, gender inequality and female disadvantage : an overview -- Economic theories of the family and gender inequality -- Sex ratios, sex selection and the value of females -- Prejudice against female children : theory and survey findings from eastern India -- Gender inequality indices...

"Women are the world's most powerful consumers, yet they are largely marketed to erroneously through misconceptions and patriarchal views that distort the reality of women's lives, bodies and work. This book examines the contradictions and mismatches between women's everyday experiences and...

"Entrepreneurship in context has been described as the third wave in entrepreneurship research. Accordingly, specific socio-economic, political, market and institutional contexts are key to fostering, enabling and enacting entrepreneurial activity and behaviours. These contexts shape everyday...