In all Western societies women earn lower wages on average than men. The gender wage gap has existed for many years … progress made by women in the labor market, and the characteristics and causes of remaining gender inequalities. It also covers … in the labor market by men and women as well as labor market discrimination and employment segregation. It also …

Do Tupperware parties and Mary Kay sales empower individual women, or do they exploit personal relationships for … of case studies that unpack its personal and professional results for women. Closely examining the promises of multilevel … marketing programs, their book challenges the way we see women's participation in the party plan economy. …

Editors biography -- Contributor biography -- Introduction -- Women and economic sustainability -- Making visible the … invisible : women's unpaid labour / Diana Sabotinova (Bulgaria) -- Employing women in the western Balkans / Zorka Grandov … (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Radica Jovanovic and Olivera Karic Nedeljkovic (Serbia) -- A different view of women's employment …