Women and the Labor Market

By Borooah/Hart, Vani Borooah, Mark Hart

Despite the expansion of female employment over the past twenty years, women continue to be crowded into a small number of occupations which, in the main, represent low-paid jobs. This book analyzes this issue and examines one route of escape: self-employment. In the USA women have increasingly been following this path and the growth in women-only businesses is testimony to the possibilities this allows for increasing economic independence.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041521601X
• ISBN13: 9780415216012
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 248 Pages