Gender and Macroeconomic Policy

by Raj Nallari and Breda Griffith

Mainstream economic analysis has traditionally overlooked gender. The individual-the basic category of analysis-was regarded as genderless. Neither gender discrimination nor segmentation and segregation within the labor market or within the household was present. Contributions from development theory, new household economics (NHE), labor economics, and feminist analysis have done much to change this. Focusing on gender equality-by which we mean equality...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821374346
• ISBN13: 9780821374344
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: World Bank Publications
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"