Routledge Studies in Gender and Economics
The Economics of Gender Inequality in Latin America
1st Edition
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By Reyna Elizabeth Rodríguez Pérez, David Castro Lugo
February 19, 2026
This book provides a comprehensive examination of gender disparities through theoretical, methodological, and empirical lenses. The theoretical foundations critique neoliberal feminism, emphasizing alternative frameworks such as the "Work on feminism of the 99%", which advocates redistributive ...
Gender, Power, and Economic Inequality in the Global South: An Intersectional Approach
1st Edition
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By Hebatallah Adam, Abul Hasnat Monjurul Kabir
January 29, 2026
This book delves into the interrelationship among gender, power, and economic disparity in the Global South through an intersectional lens. It analyses the interplay of diverse forms of oppression, such as class, caste, race, ethnicity, and geography, and their impacts on individual lives and ...
Women, Work and the Care Economy
1st Edition
Edited
By Reyna Elizabeth Rodríguez Pérez, David Castro Lugo
January 27, 2026
Women, Work and the Care Economy explores the critical intersection between gender, labor, and caregiving. The book is divided into four sections, encompassing a diverse range of topics. The theoretical section highlights the challenges of integrating intersectionality into feminist economics, ...
Identity Economics: Multidisciplinary Insights into Decision-Making Behavior
1st Edition
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By Meral Uzunöz Altan, Meltem İnce Yenilmez, Oğuzhan Altınkoz, Sinem Bağçe
December 26, 2025
Critics contend that identity economics overemphasizes social identities as drivers of economic activity, potentially obscuring other elements including personal preferences, incentives, and market pressures. Identity-related notions are challenging to measure and quantify meaningfully and ...
Gender Equality in the EU and Ukraine: Women’s Rights in a Time of War
1st Edition
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By Agata Włodkowska, Maryana Prokop, Oleksandra Struk
June 27, 2025
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of gender equality and women’s rights in Ukraine and the European Union, focusing on both political security and economic– social dimensions. The first part examines European gender policy standards in Ukraine, feminist foreign policy, women’s involvement...
Women and Sustainable Development: A European Cross-Country Analysis
1st Edition
By Agata Niemczyk, Zofia Gródek-Szostak, Renata Seweryn, Urszula Grzega
December 31, 2024
Sustainable development has been recognized as a paradigm for considering a future in which environmental, social, and economic concerns are balanced in the pursuit of improving quality of life. The ideals and principles behind this paradigm are based on the concepts of generational and gender ...
Women’s Productive and Reproductive Labour: Class and Gender Inequalities in Turkey
1st Edition
By Ayşe Arslan
December 18, 2024
This book looks at the dynamic relationship between women’s productive and reproductive work in a Global South country from a Global South perspective. Applying a feminist political economy and historical materialist approach and building on an ethnographic extended case study, it analyses the ...
Gender Inequality in the Global Labor Market: A Feminist Economics Approach
1st Edition
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By Reyna Elizabeth Rodríguez Pérez, David Castro Lugo
October 24, 2024
This book examines gender inequality from the perspective of feminist economics, with empirical application, across different countries such as Turkey, the United States, Mexico, Uruguay, Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica and territories within Europe. It centers on topics such as labor participation...
The Economics of Gender and Sport: A Quantitative Analysis of Women's Cricket
1st Edition
By Vani Kant Borooah
May 27, 2024
While women’s cricket, and women’s sport in general, has gained enormously in popularity in terms of both spectators and TV audiences, comparatively little is known about it and its participants, and there are few, if any, quantitative assessments of the game. The Economics of Gender and Sport: A ...
The Economics of Gender in China: Women, Work and the Glass Ceiling
1st Edition
By Sisi Sung
May 27, 2024
China’s rapid socio-economic development has achieved remarkable equalizing conditions between men and women in the aspects of health, education and labor force participation, but the glass ceiling phenomenon has become more prominent. The book develops a cross-disciplinary paradigm, with economics...
The Economics of Women and Work in the Global Economy
1st Edition
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By Reyna Elizabeth Rodríguez Pérez, David Castro Lugo
January 29, 2024
This book offers an analysis of the key issues faced by women in the labor market in the 21st century. It identifies the factors that inhibit women's participation in the labor market, studies occupational segregation by gender and analyzes labor transitions, questioning whether the experience for ...
The Political Economy of Patriarchy in the Global South
1st Edition
By Ece Kocabıçak
January 29, 2024
Recent decades have witnessed both a renewed energy in feminist activism and widespread attacks taking back hard-won rights. Despite powerful feminist movements, the Covid-19 pandemic has significantly undermined the progress women have struggled for decades to achieve; how can this be? What ...