to gender related issues. By examining Japanese experiences related to gender, the authors seek insights relevant to the …

As India strives to improve overall social and economic conditions and gender relations through policies such as the … remain, especially in rural areas. Gender Equality and Inequality in Rural India focuses on the extent to which economic … and domestic spheres, and argues that policies aimed at closing gender gaps in social inequalities must be complemented by …

conventional wisdom that, for ideological reasons, Soviet manual workers were favoured over the highly educated. Gender, Work and … Wages in the Soviet Union includes a critical survey of economic theories of gender and wages and the Soviet wage …-system. The final chapter brings the debate up to date by examining how old and new mechanisms of gender inequality interact in …

This volume discusses the significance of human rights approaches to food and the way it relates to gender …

productivity. Finally, domestic and agricultural technologies and time use patterns are assessed. The study finds persistent gender … household responsibilities, and promoting gender equality to enhance women's economic empowerment and household well-being. …

Using two rounds of panel firm- and worker-level data, this paper studies the gender gap in monetary and non …: the gender gap in total income between workers who do not have children is 11.7% while it is 37.6% among workers who have … and overtime work than men who have children do. Meanwhile, there is no statistically significant gender difference in …