By Lynn Prince Cooke

Gender-Class Equality in Political Economies offers an in-depth research of gender-class equality throughout six international locations to bare why gender-class equality in paid and unpaid paintings is still elusive, and what extra coverage may possibly do to accomplish larger social and fiscal results. This book is the 1st to meld cross-time with cross-country comparisons, hyperlink macro constructions to micro habit, and fasten classification with gender dynamics to yield clean insights into the place we're at the street to gender equality, why it varies throughout industrialized nations, and the limitations to extra growth.

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