Women, family, and work : writings on the economics of gender / edited by Karine S. Moe.

Contributor(s):

Moe, Karine S

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford, U.K. ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell, 2003.Description: xii, 239 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN:

0631225773 (pbk : alk. paper)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

330.082 21

Contents:

Setting the stage / Karine S. Moe -- A feminist critique of the neoc lassical theory of the family / Marianne A. Ferber -- Rational choice a nd the price of marriage / Robert Cherry -- Conceptualizing and measuri ng bargaining power within the household / Cheryl Doss -- Gains from tr ade and specialization / Leslie Stratton -- But-- who mows the lawn? / Lisa Giddings -- Economic theories of fertility / Diane Macunovich -- T he child care economics conundrum / Julie Nelson -- The child care prob lem for low-income working families / Jean Kimmel -- The human capital explanation for the gender gap in earnings / Joyce P. Jacobsen -- Occup ational segregation around the world / Debra Barbezat -- Labor market d iscrimination / Irene Powell -- Employment discrimination, economics, a nd the law / Joni Hersch.

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Women, family, and work : writings on the economics of gender / edited by Karine S. Moe.