The purpose of this book is to analyse the remaining obstacles to achieving gender equality. The first chapters present different aspects of the gender earnings gap. Different countries are studied and special emphasis is laid on particular sectors and occupations.
The rest of the book deals with the postponement of first birth by educated women, the non-cooperative behaviour in time use, gender differences in job and worker mobility, transitions between employment status, discriminations contained in tax systems and poverty rate of single parent households.

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Notes on the Contributors
Introduction; S.Gustafsson & D.Meulders
PART I: SETTING THE STAGE
The Feminization of Work: A New Era for (Man)kind; R.Freeman
Women's Employment in a Society of Rampant Unemployment; M.Maruani
PART II: THE GENDER EARNINGS DIFFERENCE
The Danish Gender Wage Gap and Wage Determination in the Private and Public Sectors; N.D.Gupta, R.L.Oaxaca & N.Smith
Do Markets Discriminate?: Comparing the Male-Female Wage Gap of United States Public and Private School Principals; L.Joy
The Impact of Regional Migration on the Earnings, Employment and Overeducation of Married Women in the U.K.; H.Battu, P.T.Seaman & P.J.Sloane
Tied Movers, Tied Stayers: The Higher Risk of Overeducation among Married Women in West Germany; F.Büchel
PART III: THE GENDER DIFFERENCE IN EMPLOYMENT PATTERNS
Churning in the Norwegian Labour Market: Gender Differences in Job and Worker Mobility; E.Barth & H.D.Olsen
Optimal Age at Giving Birth: Germany, Great Britain, The Netherlands and Sweden; S.Gustafsson & C.Wetzels
Tax Discrimination against Women in Spain: Why are we Favouring Traditional Families?; A.Fuenmayor & C.Salvador
How Do Couples Spend Their Time?: Hours of Market and Domestic Work Time in British Partnerships; H.Davies, H.Joshi, M.Killingworth & R.Peronaci
A Longitudinal Analysis of Part-Time Work by Women and Men in the Netherlands; R.Dekker, R.Muffels & E.Stancanelli
Working Time, Women and Low Wages in Belgium; M.Jepsen, D.Meulders & I.Terraz
Are Lone Parents Households Today Often Poor in France?: An Analysis Using Three Different Poverty Measures; D.Clement & C.Sofer
Index of Authors
Index of Subjects

SIV S. GUSTAFSSON is Professor of Economics at the University of Amsterdam. She is a fellow of the Tinbergen Institute and is the 1999 President of the European Society of Population Economics.

DANIELE MEULDERS is Professor of Economics and head of the research team of Labour Economics in the department of applied economics of the Free University of Brussels. She is a member of the executive committee of the Applied Econometrics Association.