This comprehensive and provocative book has been designed as a text for the growing number of courses on gender and economics. Jacobsen focuses primarily on contemporary patterns and the scope of the book is wide, providing an excellent introduction to new work on the differences between women's and men's economic opportunities, activities and rewards.


Written in a clear and lively style, and using many real-life examples, anecdotes and a range of appendices designed to help both those with little economic background and the economically sophisticated, this will be a welcome textbook for students on a wide range of economics courses.