Focuses on whether the tendency towards increased women's participation in labour markets has continued more recently and whether women have found enough decent and productive jobs to really enable them to use their potential in the labour market and achieve economic independence. Based on...

This book helps us to better understand the problems women face in rising through the ranks and securing top positions, and offers some useful strategies for shattering the glass ceiling. It examines current gender inequalities in the labour market and in political and social life.

Provides estimates and projections of the ecomically active population to 2010.

Discusses the lessons that can be learned in the sphere of industrial relations from past crises in different parts of the world and highlights some recent industrial relations developments at the national, sectoral and enterprise levels since the beginning of the current crisis in the late...