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Gendered Trajectories: Women, Work, and Social Change in Japan and Taiwan

Contributor(s): Yu, Wei-Hsin (Author)

ISBN: 9780804760096

Publisher: Stanford University Press

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Pub Date: February 26, 2009

Dewey: 331.40951249

LCCN: 2008036648

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.90" H x 9.30" L x 6.30" W ( 1.15 lbs) 280 pages

Series: Studies in Social Inequality

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Description: Through a detailed analysis of macroeconomic changes and individuals' lifetime employment trajectories, this book explains why Japan and Taiwan have experienced different levels of improvement in women's economic status over the last half century.

Review Quotes: "Gendered Trajectories presents an extraordinarily complete picture of women's employment patterns in Japan and Taiwan. Yu succeeds in providing a convincing explanation of why women's employment histories are so different in the two societies." --Annemette Sorensen, Stanford University

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