Frontiers in the economics of gender
By: edited by Francesca Bettio and Alina Verashchagina.
Contributors: Bettio, Francesca.; Verashchagina, Alina.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Abingdon; New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415445726; 9780203927694
Subjects: Sexual division of labor; Women -- Employment; Sex role -- Economic aspects; Women -- Economic conditions
Notes: Research studies from the Summer School of International Research in Pontignano, University of Siena.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword: Francesca Bettio and Alina Verashchagina; title: Historical perspectives. Women in the history of economic thought through gender lenses / Annalisa Rosselli and Cristina Marcuzzo; The historical construction of gender: reflections on gender and economic history / Patricia Hudson; title: Theoretical developments. A gender neutral approach to gender issues / Alessandro Cigno; The gender gap /Graciela Chichilnisky; title: Ghosts in the machine: a post Keynesian analysis of gender relations, households, and macroeconomics / Haroon Akram Lodhi and Lucia C. Hanmer; A fresh look at households. Conceptualizing care / Nancy Folbre; Gender and household decision making / Shelly Lundberg; title: Labour market debates. Gender differences across Europe / Peter Dolton, Oscar Marcenaro-Guttierez and Ali Skalli; Occupational segregation and gender wage disparities in developed economies. should we still worry? / Francesca Bettio; The transition from planned to market economies: how are women faring? / Marina Malysheva and Alina Verashchagina; title: Lessons from the laboratory.The gender gap: using the lab as a window on the market / Catherine Eckel;  The gender effect in the laboratory. Experimenter bias and altruism / Alessandro Innocenti and Maria Grazia Pazienza; title: Institutions matter. Gender and the political economy of knowledge / Ann Mary May.