they have very different patterns of private wealth holding. Using the Luxembourg Wealth Study (LWS) which contains … harmonized wealth micro-datasets from a number of industrialized countries, we analyze the income and wealth packages of older … women's households, across these five countries. Our primary focus is on wealth, including both financial and non …

in wealth, attempting to highlight the paths between the various facets of gender inequality. Throughout the review, much … the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews … research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap …