This paper aims to study the impact of migration on labour supply and time-use of women left behind in Kyrgyzstan … the labour supply data, this study uses detailed information on daily time-use, which is analysed within women … that the migration of a household member increases the choice of left-behind women to be unpaid family workers. Most of the …

"This book focuses on early examples of women who may be said to have anticipated, in one way or another, modern … professional and/or career-oriented women. The contributors to the book discuss women who may at least in some respect be seen as … professionally ambitious, unlike the great majority of working women in the past. In order to improve their positions or to find …