Description: The world economy is changing and nowhere more so than in post-socialist Europe and the developing world. This book assesses the impact of these changes on women, unearthing evidence of gender bias and drawing some telling conclusions.
Review Quotes: "A useful addtion to undergraduate and graduate interdisciplinary collections in amthropology, women's studies, labor economics, and edconomic devleopment."
-"Choice
"The major contribution of this book lies in providing further evidence on economic and social conditions of women and in lending empirical support that reveals the gender biases of recent economic policy...the book is a useful addition to literature on women and economic change throughout the world and a welcome effort that contributes to moving economics in the direction of more substantive analysis of economic processes."
-"Journal of Economic Issues
"With a truly global scale, this book will be a useful resource for those teaching gender and ...' courses in planning, geography, or development studies
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-"Environment/Planning
"With a truly global scope, this book will be a useful resource for those teaching 'gender and ...' courses in planning, geography, or development studies
."
-"1997 Environment/Planning