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 …

In this first comprehensive study of women as economic actors in medieval Norway, Susann Anett Pedersen analyses the … letter correspondence, the book investigates elite women's formal and informal roles in decision making processes and their … regulation of women's economic activities and rather analyses women's own actions, in order to better grasp the complexity of …