Economic agents can be male or female; they interact in families and households as well as in firms and markets. Yet it is only recently that economists have be

An economic way of thinking about the gender issues confronting women around the world Gender matters in economics—for even with today's technology, fertility

Presents 27 articles dating from 1923 to 1994 on gender differences, female labour supply, male-female wage differences and on the historical significance of wo

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The economics profession is belatedly confronting glaring gender inequality. Women are systematically underrepresented throughout the discipline, and those who