Women and the distribution of wealth/
edited by Carmen Diana Deere and Cheryl R. Doss
- London: Routledge, 2007.
- 240 p.
1. The gender asset gap : what do we know and why does it matter? / Carmen Diana Deere and Cheryl R. Doss 2. Cui bono? The 1870 British married women's property act, bargaining power, and the distribution of resources within marriage / Mary Beth Combs 3. Crippled capitalists : the inscription of economic dependence and the challenge of female entrepreneurship in nineteenth-century America / Susan M. Yohn 4. "The widow, the clergyman and the reckless" : women investors in England, 1830-1914 / Janette Rutterford and Josephine Maltby 5. Gender, marriage, and asset accumulation in the United States / Lucie Schmidt and Purvi Sevak 6. The wealth of single women : marital status and parenthood in the asset accumulation of young baby boomers in the United States / Alexis Yamokoski and Lisa A. Keister 7. Moving beyond the gender wealth gap : on gender, class, ethnicity, and wealth inequalities in the United Kingdom / Tracey Warren 8. Household bargaining over wealth and the adequacy of women's retirement incomes in New Zealand / John Gibson, Trinh Le, and Grant Scobie 9. Assets in intrahousehold bargaining among women workers in Colombia's cut-flower industry / Greata Friedmann-Sánchez 10. Joint titling : a win-win policy? Gender and property rights in urban informal settlements in Chandigarh, India / Namita Datta