Women at Work

Provides a useful review of the issues and literature on the topic
- Provides up-to-date, comparable quantitative evidence on differences in the experience of women
- Draws on a range of expert contributors

Contents
- Women in the Labour Force: How Well is Europe Doing?
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Some facts about women's employment patterns
- 3 What explains women's employment patterns?
- 4 Job segregation
- 5 Wage gaps
- 6 The consequences of rising female participation for other workers
- 7 What should polcy do?
- Comments by Florence Jaumotte
- Comments by Richard Rogerson
- Labour Market Participation of Women and Fertility: the Effect of Social Policies
- 1 Labour supply and fertility in Europe and the U.S.
- 2 Parental work and child welfare
- 3 How does women's work affect family income distribution?
- 4 Taxes, transfers, labour supply and household welfare
- 5 What should policies do?
- Comments by Valerie Lechene
- Comments by Giovanni Andrea Cornia
- Final Remarks by Giuseppe Bertola and Gøsta Esping-Andersen