Trajectories of Female Employment in the Mediterranean

This book presents a comparative historical overview of female employment patterns across the Mediterranean region, analyzing how the relationship between economic development, political change and the cultural environment shapes the evolution of gender roles in interconnected spheres of social life.

• employment
• environment
• evolution
• gender
• gender roles
• women

ALBERTA ANDREOTTI Professor in Economic Sociology, University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy MARIA KARAMESSINI Associate Professor in Labour Economics and Economics of the Welfare State, Department of Social Policy of Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens, Greece LUIS MORENO Research Professor at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain ENZO MINGIONE Professor of Sociology at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy OLGA SALIDO Associate Professor in Social Stratification and Gender Inequality at the Department of Sociology III, University Complutense of Madrid, Spain HANIA SHOLKAMY Assistant Professor in the American University in Cairo, Egypt

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