Gender and Time Use in a Global Context The Economics of Employment
This edited volume uses a feminist approach to explore the economic implications of the complex interrelationship between gender and time use. Household composition, sexuality, migration patterns, income levels, and race/ethnicity are all considered as im
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Rachel Connelly • Ebru Kongar Editors
Gender and Time Use in a Global Context The Economics of Employment and Unpaid Labor
Editors Rachel Connelly Bowdoin College Dept of Economics Brunswick, Maine, USA
ISBN 978-1-137-56836-6 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-56837-3
Ebru Kongar Dickinson College Carlisle, Pennsylvania, USA
ISBN 978-1-137-56837-3 (eBook)
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We acknowledge with gratitude the constructive feedback we have received on the contents of this book from Günseli Berik, Diane Elson, Naila Kabeer, Nancy Folbre, Joyce Jacobsen, and Şemsa Özar. We also thank Elizabeth Weston for the extraordinary administrative support she provided in pulling the chapters together to make them a book. Earlier versions of seven chapters in this book were presented at the 25th International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) conference held in Galway between June 24–26, 2016. We thank the discussants and attendees for their helpful feedback.
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CONTENTS
Feminist Approaches to Time Use Rachel Connelly and Ebru Kongar
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PART I Gender, Time Use, and the Macroeconomy Unpaid Work in Macroeconomics: A Stocktaking Exercise İpek İlkkaracan The Challenge of Austerity for Gender Equality in Europe: A Consideration of Eight Countries at the Center of the Crisis Maria Karamessini and Jill Rubery Women, Recession, and Austerity: A Comment on “The Challenge of Gender Austerity for Equality
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