Women and the distribution of wealth / edited by Carmen Diana Deere and Cheryl R. Doss. - 310 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Gender Asset Gap: What Do We Know and Why Does it Matter? -- Qui Bono ?: The 1870 British Married Women's Property Act, Bargaining Power, and the Distribution of Resources Within Marriage -- Crippled Capitalists: The Inscription of Economic Dependence and the Challenge of Female Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth Century America -- 'The Widow, the Clergyman, and the Reckless': Women Investors in England, 1830-1914 -- Gender, Marriage, and Asset Accumulation in the United States -- The Wealth of Single Females: Marital Status and Parenthood in the Asset Accumulation of Young Baby Boomers in the United States -- Moving beyond the Gender Wealth Gap: On Gender, Class, Ethnicity, and Wealth Inequalities in the UK -- Household Bargaining Over Wealth and the Adequacy of Women's Retirement Incomes in New Zealand -- Assets in Intrahousehold Bargaining among Women Workers in Colombia's Cut-flower Industry -- Joint Titling: A Win-Win Policy?: Gender and Property Rights in Urban Informal Settlements in India. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

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Feminist economics
Wealth

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