ABSTRACT
This reader is designed for use as a primary or supplementary text for courses on women's role in the economy. Both interdisciplinary and heterodox in its approach, it showcases feminist economic analyses that utilize insights from institutionalism as well as neoclassical economics. Including both classic and newer selections from a broad range of areas, each section includes an introduction with background material, as well as discussion questions, exercises, and lists of key terms an further readings.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|36 pages
Methodologies for Studying Women and the Economy
part 2|60 pages
The Rise and Fall of Separate Spheres
chapter 4|15 pages
Breadwinners and Other Workers
part 3|54 pages
Households and Social Reproduction
chapter 11|14 pages
Student Attitudes Toward Roles of Women and Men
part 4|51 pages
Mainstream Approaches to Labor Market Outcomes
part 5|57 pages
Heterodox Approaches to Labor Market Outcomes
chapter 17|14 pages
The Political Economy of Labor Market Discrimination
chapter 20|9 pages
Just Checking It Out
part 6|40 pages
Policies Affecting Women, Work, and Families
part 7|48 pages
The Gendered Impact of Economic Development and Globalization