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The article encourages scholars from economics and other disciplines to consider submitting abstracts for papers for a special issue of "Feminist Economist." The special issue will focus on unpaid work, time use, poverty and public policy. Moreover, the paper is expected to be completed and submitted by August 15, 2007.

The article encourages scholars in all disciplines to submit papers for a special issue of "Feminist Economics. The special issue will provide a forum for analyzing inequality, redevelopment and growth in developing, industrial and transitioning countries. Moreover, the abstracts for papers is expected to be completed and submitted by December 1, 2006 however, if the abstract is accented, the completed manuscript is due April 15, 2007.

In this article the journal "Feminist Economics" invites submissions of papers, short discussions, and book reviews for a special issue on "Gender, China, and the World Trade Organization" to be published in 2007. The editors encourage scholars in all disciplines to consider submitting abstracts for papers on the gender implications of China's entry into the WTO. The deadline for submission of abstracts was October 1, 2004. Late abstract submissions may be considered at the discretion of the editors. If the editors accept an abstract, the completed manuscript will be due by April 1, 2005. China's accession to the WTO at the end of 2001 is having far-reaching effects on people and institutions in China and on the country's trading partners around the world.

The article announces the call for papers by the journal "Feminist Economics" for its special issue on gender and international migration. This issue intends to motivate both research and action, generating a discussion on the ways in which gender is an important dimension from which general and specific migration issues can be analyzed. Themes include rethinking theory on labor and capital mobility, the care economy, women and migration, and the challenges of social protection for migrant workers.

The article presents an invitation from the Feminist Economics for contributions. Papers may be submitted containing the special issue on inequality, development, and growth. All scholars in all disciplines are encouraged to submit abstracts by October 1, 2006. Some specific topics for submission are enumerated.

The article reflects on the policy of the journal "Feminist Economics." According to the author, the policy of the journal requires that comments on statistical results address the economic importance of results. He pointed that statistical significant should therefore be addressed only in the context of sample size and the economic meaningfulness of a coefficiency. The author believes that the issue is beneficial to the researcher who need a clear and reliable data related to feminism.

The article presents the editorial policy requirements of the "Feminist Economics" periodical. These policies include: policy on statistical reporting, and policy on orienting papers for an international audience. The conditions required for submission of contributions are also briefly presented and discussed.

Discusses the editorial policies of the sociological journal "Feminist Economics." Discussions of statistical results that report standard errors and address its economic importance; Policy on orienting papers for an international audience; Conditions for article submission.

Neoliberalism has been discredited as a result of proliferating crises (financial, ecological, care) and mounting inequality. This paper examines the growing research on gender at the World Bank as a site for the construction of a new hegemonic consensus around neoliberalism. Drawing on a computer-assisted inductive analysis of thirty-four Bank publications on gender since 2001, the paper documents Bank efforts to establish a positive relationship between gender equality and growth; shows the expansion of the Bank’s definition of equality as equal opportunity; illustrates how the focus on institutions has enabled engagement with core feminist concerns, such as equality in the family; and traces how incorporating notions of women’s empowerment and agency has made possible a focus on domestic violence. The paper concludes by emphasizing the ambiguous effects of the Bank’s new neoliberalism, which continues to use the market as the arbiter of social values while providing openings for feminist agendas. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article focuses on the editorial policies of the periodical "Feminist Economics." Discussions of statistical results should report standard errors rather than t-statistics. Comments on statistical results should address the economic importance of the results. Statistical significance should be addressed only in the context of sample size and the economic meaningfulness of a coefficient.

This paper concentrates on the scientific work of Elinor Ostrom (1933–2012), who for more than forty years carried out theoretical and empirical research on common-pool resources. Ostrom theorizes that the commons often prevent resource exhaustion more effectively than the state, international institutions, or private owners. However, one of the foundations of commons, as an alternative program to the private/state dualism, ought to be the principle of equality that includes a gender perspective in theory and practice. The goal of this article is to provide thoughtful ways of incorporating gender in economic research from the viewpoint of feminist epistemology and to indicate the place of gender in Ostrom’s work. The methodology of this study could be used for reading economic publications through a gender perspective as well as for inspiring economists to use both gender as a category of analysis and gender-sensitive language in their theoretical and empirical studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper considers the role that urban spatial structure may play in the process of occupational segregation, and argues that neoclassical economic models of urban employment and residential location decisions have not considered the relationship between gender-based labor market status and space. The paper provides a critical feminist perspective on how conventional urban models have been used to explain patterns of segregation, and suggests reasons for limitations in existing theoretical and empirical analysis. It also explores ways in which economists can draw on work in other disciplines to develop fuller and more useful models of the relationship between urban spatial structure and occupational segregation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper by Gudeman and Gudeman on the nature of computer-mediated-communication (CMC) is a valuable contribution. This comment argues that they neglected one important aspect affecting CMC, namely ideology, and suggests that the ''Debating Markets'' exchange had long-term negative impacts on Femecon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper tries to assess whether the recent adoption by population establishment agencies of feminist language and concerns also embodies feminist visions and values, or whether it hides fundamental differences. In particular, the paper warns that this adoption may simply be an expression of the kind of instrumentalism common to many development policies which are recommended for the benefit of women. For this purpose, the paper describes the historical context of the apparent changes in the treatment of women by the population establishment. It then analyses feminist notions of reproduction, science and reproductive technologies, and how these inform critiques of family planning programs. Since such critiques are not uniform, in content or degree, this analysis includes the different feminist traditions from which they derive. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explains why marriage market conditions may affect the participation of women in the labor force. In particular, it is claimed that changes in cohort size affect marriage market conditions and therefore women's labor-force participation. The paper also indicates how a theory of labor and marriage based on market analysis can possibly help women's causes. The paper first addresses theoretical issues raised by Strober. It then responds to her critique of empirical work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with a subject of central interest for feminist economics: the working conditions of employees in a caregiving occupation that is low paid, female dominated and in an industry crucial for parents in the labor market. The qualitative research employed here is also of interest to feminist economics, which seeks to use a broader range of methodologies than is typically found in economics journals. The paper examines the labor market and work environment for caregivers who provide care for young children in child care centers. It is based on twenty intensive interviews with child care aides, teachers and directors in four different types of large child care centers in Santa Clara County, California. Topics discussed are pay and benefits, adequacy of staffing (including matters of recruitment and retention), the directors' managerial roles, the effects on the workplace of center ownership and governance, opportunities for professional development and relations with children and parents. The paper provides a model of the kinds of insights that can be had from paying attention to the words of economic actors. For example, the findings about the importance for job satisfaction of substitute teachers, managerial styles of directors, early childhood education classes and relations with parents have not been studied or reported in other research on child care workers. The detailed descriptions of the characteristics of workers sought by child care center directors have also not been previously reported. The reproduction of the exact words of the respondents enables readers to develop an appreciation of the difficulty and stressfulness of child care workers' jobs; this type of understanding does not emerge from quantitative work. Based on the findings, the paper calls for the funding of demonstration projects to assess the cost effectiveness of several specific policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This is a response to Robert Cherry's comment on the article, "Welfare as We [Don't] Know It: A Review and Feminist Critique of Welfare Reform Research" that appeared in the 10(2) issue of Feminist Economics. This response argues that while some combination of welfare reform, the booming economy in the late 1990s, and changes in economic policy all worked together to decrease caseloads and increase employment rates among welfare leavers, these are incomplete measures of the impact of welfare reform on the lives of lone mothers. This paper also argues that the effects of welfare reform on lone mothers are more mixed than Cherry acknowledges. This paper concludes that when one holistically examines low-income lone mothers' lives, it is premature to declare welfare reform a success. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The heterodox "Post Keynesian" school, which emphasizes fundamental uncertainty and the time structure of economic activity, overlaps feminist economics in its treatment of subjectivity and its understanding of the relation between micro and macro phenomena. Why, then, is the intersection of the two fields in the published literature so small? This paper argues that Post Keynesians have adopted a number of additional institutional assumptions that have the effect of excluding gender from their analytical frame. These assumptions can be jettisoned without impairing fundamental Post Keynesian analytics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents information on conferences, grants and fellowships, web sites, and research that focus on the study of feminist economics. Preparations for the Thirteenth Annual Conference on Feminist Economics to be held at Oxford University in Oxford, England from August 5 to 7, 2004; List of grant and fellowships that offer support for research; Guidelines for submission of articles to economics and feminist journals.

In this paper, the author examines the capability approach and how it applies in the context of individuals and families living together on unequal terms. The interpretations of agency, freedom, and choice in Sen's framework are analyzed from a feminist perspective, and the author suggests that these important concepts invite special attention in the presence of domestic power imbalances. Problems with the interpretations embedded in the capability approach are pinpointed and adjustments proposed. Drawing on the vast literature on household behavior in developing countries, the author argues that capabilities have a distinctly interdependent dimension. While the discussion of agency in the capability approach has been either normative or policy-oriented, exercises that seek to evaluate individual well-being should pay more attention to the existence of alternative types of power within the realm of the household. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In an earlier paper in Feminist Economics (Tony Lawson 1999), I suggested that there are likely significant benefits to feminist theorizing from adopting an explicit and sustained concern with ontology. I suggested this in the context of observing that theorizing of an explicitly ontological or realist nature is often downplayed and frequently actively discouraged in feminist writing. Several authors have since commented on my earlier paper, indicating points both of agreement and disagreement. In this essay I respond to some of the more critical comments and attempt to clarify my position in the light of them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The feminization U theory claims that women’s labor force participation drops during the initial phase of industrialization and rises once a certain level of development is reached. This paper is the first to exploit the diversity in economic structure across municipalities to consider the shape of the feminization U in a developing country. Using data from South Africa’s 2007 Community Survey, this study investigates whether a feminization U exists. Results reveal a U-shaped relationship between the share of nonagricultural employment and women’s probability of being in the labor force. Results show that the exclusion of informal urban employment leads to an overestimation of the U slope and part of the decline in women’s labor force participation during early structural change is likely related to household and care constraints. A U-shaped relationship is not found between the share of households with electricity and women’s probability of being in the labor force. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, the issue of women's agency (defined as the capacity of a female economic agent for rational decision-making) is examined in classical economic thought, with Adam Smith and the Mills taken as case studies. It is concluded that Smith had relatively little confidence in women's independent judgment and hence in their capacity for reasoned decisions on economic matters. By contrast, the Mills, almost alone among classical economists, did trust women to make decisions in their long-run interest. With the arrival of academic feminism in economics, the time is ripe for a reappraisal of such implicit assumptions, and it is concluded that current-day economists would do better to follow the Mills, rather than Adam Smith, on this matter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper questions the dichotomy of worklnonwork. It examines the way in which the category of work was expanded by feminists and economists to include much domestic activity, and considers some of the consequences of this expansion. It argues that the discovery of unpaid "work" involved an uncritical application and validation of a concept of work abstracted from a model of commodity producing wage labor in manufacturing. However, this concept excludes much of what is distinctive about domestic activities, such as their caring and self-fulfilling aspects. Inequality between house- holds has become a conduit for the construction of needs in a form in which "work," and in particular work for money, is needed to satisfy them. Some consequences of this tendency are examined together with the policy concerns which would need to be addressed in order to mitigate its deleterious effects. The development of a feminist economics which transcends the polarization of life into "work" and "nonwork" is argued to be vital in this process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper puts recent feminist theorizing about "care" within an economic context by developing the concept of caring labor and exploring possible reasons for its undervaluation. It describes the relevance of tensions between neoclassical and institutionalist thought, as well as between pro-market and anti-market views. The final section explores the implications for feminist public policy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article highlights the efforts of the publishers of the periodical "Feminist Economics," to encourage the submission of papers, short discussions, and book reviews for a special issue on "AIDS, Sexuality, and Economic Development." Scholars in all disciplines as well those involved in non-governmental organizations and governmental work are invited to submit abstracts for papers to be included. The deadline for submission of abstracts is March 1, 2006

Announces several congresses on feminist economics. Details on The International Association for Feminist Economics convention; Development of human resources for science and engineering by the National Science Foundation; Offerings of academic scholarships for women by the Mary Ingrahan Bunting Institute.

The past decade has seen a proliferation of writing by feminist economists. Feminist economists are not identified with one particular economic paradigm, yet some common methodological points seem to be emerging. I propose making these starting points more explicit so that they can be examined, critiqued, and built upon. I use the term "social provisioning" to describe this emerging methodology. Its five main components are: incorporation of caring and unpaid labor as fundamental economic activities; use of well-being as a measure of economic success; analysis of economic, political, and social processes and power relations; inclusion of ethical goals and values as an intrinsic part of the analysis; and interrogation of differences by class, race-ethnicity, and other factors. The paper then provides brief illustrations of the use of this methodology in analyses of US welfare reform, gender and development, and feminist ecological economics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the relationship between feminism and lesbianism, arguing both that feminism has encouraged and supported lesbianism, and that the existence of lesbian feminism supports both feminist goals in general and heterosexual feminists in particular. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Feminist literature has highlighted the way in which pregnancy and childbearing signal ''difference'' from the male labor market norm. The issue of breastfeeding adds complexity to this analysis. This paper argues that, in labor market terms, there are costs attached to breastfeeding for most women. However, health-focused research indicates that there are also significant benefits conferred by breastfeeding to mothers, infants, employers and wider society in industrialized as well as in so-called ''developing'' economies. In this essay, I argue that although the dominant American discourse on infant feeding emphasizes personal preference on the part of individual women there are, in fact, significant economic and employment-related factors which impinge on infant feeding options. In particular, those women in the most disadvantaged positions in the labor market are, in general, the most constrained in terms of such choice. However, while pregnancy and childbirth have been the subject of intense feminist interest and debate, breastfeeding and its intersection with women's increasing participation in paid work has not been foregrounded either within feminist equality/difference debates or within recent labor market analyses. Finally, it is suggested that feminist analyses of labor market issues, including debates about parental/family leave, need to incorporate both the costs and benefits of breastfeeding. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines definitions of production boundaries in economics, explores the limitations of these definitions with respect to the inclusion of unpaid domestic labor, and considers the significance of such an exploration for feminist economic analysis. Margaret Reid's ''third party criterion,'' a definition of economic activity advocated by many feminists and one used to set the production boundary for most household production models, sets an implicit market standard for defining nonmarket economic activity and therefore contributes to the marginalization of such production. Similarly, production boundaries considered appropriate in third world contexts, such as those defined in the recently revised System of National Accounts, also use implicit market standards for defining nonmarket economic activity. A ''first world'' criterion implicit in such production boundaries defines nonmarket activity as work only if it would have been dealt with on the market in the first world; this results in the inclusion of some of the unpaid domestic activity of rural women on grounds which reinforce the exclusion of work such as child care and the preparation of meals in theory and policy. Feminist economists should beware the danger of recreating implicit assumptions and definitions which result in the exclusion of unpaid domestic labor. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper argues for a feminist-Marxist-anti-racist economics. First, it puts forward a set of central defining features of Marxian economics. Then it argues that feminist and anti-racist economists need to work within the Marxist theoretical framework in order to realize their feminist and anti-racist goals. Next it argues that feminist economists should also be anti-racist. Finally, it argues that Marxist economists need to incorporate feminism and anti-racism into their theory and politics if they are to understand the dynamics of capitalism and adequately envision and advocate for a liberatory socialist alternative. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the implications of current epistemological debates for the work of feminist economists. Feminist economists must acknowledge (in accordance with recent developments in the study of science) that (a) inquirers can never be certain whether claims about the world are true; (b) scientific inquiry is permeated with "internal" and "external" values; and (c) beliefs are affected by inquirers' social locations. But feminists should not, it argues, embrace the "relativist" stance of some postmodern thinkers, or reject the ideal of "truth," or argue that beliefs are strictly determined by inquirers' identities and interests. It seeks to outline an epistemological "middle ground" for feminist economics, between the extremes of exaggerated claims of certainty and a disempowering relativism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Evidence across regions in the world reveals patterns in school enrollment ratios and literacy that are divided along gender lines. In the developing world, apart from most countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, enrollment ratios of girls lag behind those for boys at all levels of education. Worldwide literacy rates for adult men far exceed those for women. While educational progress has been enjoyed by both sexes, these advances have failed to eradicate the gender gap. Education enhances labor market productivity and income growth for all, yet educating women has beneficial effects on social well-being not always measured by the market. Rising levels of education improve women's productivity in the home which in turn can increase family health, child survival, and the investment in children's human capital. The social benefits from women's education range from fostering economic growth to extending the average life expectancy in the population, to improving the functioning of political processes. This paper reviews recent empirical research that analyzes the benefits of women's education, describes the importance of women's education for country-level measures of economic development, and examines the implications of a gender gap in education for aggregate social well-being. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

High on the research agenda of feminist economists is the development of better models of what goes on within families. This paper contributes by conducting empirical tests of the impact of social/institutional factors on behavior within marriage. As one example, "divorce-threat" bargaining models predict that greater certainty of receiving child support should increase a woman's bargaining power within a marriage and hence observable behavioral outcomes. Within a single country, there is limited variation in the social/institutional factors which might affect bargaining power, but across countries identifying variation can be found. Thus, we use a micro-data set constructed using seven countries from the Luxembourg Income Study database in order to estimate a probit model of the labor-force participation of married women. Our conclusions suggest that, contrary to the predictions of Becker-style unitary models, some social/ institutional factors do influence individual behavior within the household. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information on developments relating to the study of feminism as of November 2005. The International Association for Feminist Economics will organize sessions for the 2006 Allied Social Science Meetings to be held in Boston, Massachusetts on January 6 to 8, 2006. The 15th Annual Conference on Feminist Economics is scheduled on July 7 to 9, 2006 in Sydney, Australia. The 8th Sustainable Development Conference will be held on December 7 to 9, 2005 in Islamabad, Pakistan.

Invites article submissions for a special issue of the sociology journal "Feminist Economics" that will discuss the trends in gender disparities in wages, employment, self-employment, health, education, and women's legal rights and agency in China following its accession to the World Trade Organization. Emphasis on the likely socioeconomic impacts of the country's participation in international trade on industries and labor; Suggested topics for consideration; Contact information on editors.

This comment on the special double issue of Feminist Economics on Amartya Sen's work discusses a number of themes and evaluates certain criticisms and claims in the volume. Sen's work involves a complex differentiation of distinct aspects of freedom. This differentiation is relevant to a number of criticisms. It is particularly helpful in evaluating various claims about Sen's focus on and the adequacy of his account of freedom. The article also considers claims about Sen's neglect of issues relating to interdependence and agency. To the degree that it is argued that some of these claims and criticisms can be addressed within Sen's conceptual framework, this article constitutes a qualified defense of his work. However, it does not claim that Sen's framework addresses all the criticisms that are leveled at it in the volume. Possible themes for future research are also briefly discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article profiles the contributors for the November 2005 issue of "Feminist Economics." Randy Albelda is professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts in Boston. His research and teaching focuses on women and poverty, welfare reform, income inequality, and family policies. Drucilla K. Barker is a professor of Economics and Women's Studies at Hollins University in Virginia. She earned her doctor of philosophy degree in Economics from the University of Illinois, Campaign-Urbana campus. Kristian Bolin is an associate professor of Economics at Lund University Centre for Health Economics in Sweden. His main research efforts are focused on theoretical and empirical work that integrates theories of the family with the human capital theory of health and examines the importance of the family structure for health.

This study investigates the feminization and defeminization trends in manufacturing employment in thirty countries from 1995 to 2011. Utilizing two separate methods, structural decomposition analysis (SDA) and factor content analysis (FCA), the study identifies the major industries and trade partners behind the structural shifts in trade that have induced changes in employment and thus in the rates of women's employment. The findings highlight that, as a general trend, defeminization in manufacturing has persisted in the Global North, led by a negative trade impact in low-technology industries. In the Global South, feminization and defeminization trends are not as straightforward. Despite positive changes in women's share of employment in medium-high- and high-technology industries, negative gender bias effects of trade changes are found particularly in high-technology industries, where occupations are notably gendered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information related to developments of the issue "Feminist Economics." The 16th Annual Conference on Feminist Economics will be held at Ramkhamhaeng University in Bangkok, Thailand on June 29 to July 1, 2007. The publication maintains a web site "www.feministeconomics.org." The International Association for Feminist Economics maintains a web site "www.iaffe.org."

The article presents informations and announcements included in this July 2006 issue of the "Feminist Economics." They include informations on conferences, grants, project announcements, and queries. These informations aim to invite participation and representation of feminist inquiry of economic issues.

This contribution seeks to delineate the broad contours of a transnational, anti-imperial feminist perspective on gender and economics in Muslim communities by bringing together feminist analyses of Orientalist tropes, development discourses and policies, and macro- and microeconomic trends. The goal is to facilitate conversations among scholars who have tended to work within their respective disciplinary and methodological silos despite shared interests. This approach pays special attention to intersectionality, historicity, and structural constraints by focusing on the diversity of the experiences of women and men by religion, location, citizenship, class, age, ethnicity, race, marital status, and other factors. It recognizes the complex relationships between the economic, political, cultural, and religious spheres and the role of local and transnational histories, economies, and politics in shaping people's lives. Finally, it emphasizes that openness to different methodological approaches can shed clearer light on the question of how various structural factors shape women's economic realities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There is research on low-wage earners and on low-income adults, yet little that looks specifically at workers who are both. Changes in antipoverty programs and job structure in the United States suggest a rise in this group of workers, but not necessarily an accompanying change in the set of social protections that might cover them. We track the share of low-wage and low-income (LW/LI) workers and their access to a subset of employer benefits and antipoverty programs from 1979–2011. We explore changes by worker's gender and family status based on feminist labor market and welfare state regime research that argues jobs and social protection programs are shaped by a heteronormative male-breadwinner model. We find increased shares of LW/LI workers; that LW/LI workers are least likely to receive antipoverty supports and employer benefits; and evidence for a male-breadwinner model in US social protection programs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

When land grabs are viewed from a gendered and historical lens, critical questions arise concerning three domains of inquiry about what is arguably “new,” “foreign,” and “large-scale?” They highlight historical continuities from the colonial past elite and male capture and gendered micro-political land grabs unabated over long periods of time, which once aggregated across Sub-Saharan Africa, are large-scale in themselves. This contribution reflects on feminist political-ecological research on gender and land in Kenya, Mozambique, and Madagascar and provides windows into negotiations and contestations in processes of land grabs. It analyzes what is new, while considering relations of power and knowledge that shape different ways land grabs are named and, therefore, the kinds of actions that are subsequently prescribed. Land grabs are occurring in spite of strong laws and policies, illustrating the critical role of power relations in shaping them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This contribution examines the connections between gender and international migration around three themes: globalization, national economic development, and governance. First, it discusses the connections between globalization and the multiplicity of processes that have contributed to international migration and its feminization, arguing that gender awareness is crucial to understanding these processes. Gender analysis makes visible the increasing commodification of care work on a global scale and highlights how the organization of families is changing. Second, it analyzes the various avenues through which migration may contribute to or hinder economic development, highlighting why remittances, in particular by women, have featured very positively in the migration and development policy discourse. Third, it discusses how issues of citizenship affect the migrant population, showing how gender analysis highlights many challenges with regard to nation-based notions of citizenship, particularly in the receiving countries. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This contribution situates the recent increase in cross-border marriages in Korea in the context of feminist debates on social reproduction. Drawing on surveys, policy documents, media responses, and interviews, the study explores how the phenomenon of cross-border marriage in Korea coincides with changing demographic trends and policies in the domains of the family, population, and welfare. Beginning as a solution to the “rural bachelor's marriage problem” – visible in the late 1980s – marriage between Korean men and women of foreign origin became increasingly common in the 2000s, in parallel with the emergence of national policy issues such as low fertility and a care deficit. The study suggests that current trends in cross-border marriage and policies on multicultural families reflect the need for changes in the organization of social reproduction that has resulted from the economic development that began in the 1960s and the political-economic restructuring since the 1990s. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This contribution investigates the impact of economic development on the feminization of labor in rural China between 1991 and 2006. Using data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS; 1991–2006), this study estimates time use in three sectors (farm, off-farm, and domestic) and analyzes the contribution of four features of economic development to changes in time use. Women's share of paid and unpaid work has increased in both the farm and off-farm sectors, and migration is a critical determinant. Economic development is associated with a rise in absolute work time, although not an increase in the time-use gender gap. Measuring the feminization of labor with time use rather than labor force participation data may be relevant to feminist analyses in other regions and countries, since it enables a more nuanced evaluation of the impacts of economic development on changes in the well-being of women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A correction to the short biographies of Kyunghee Chung and Sunhwa Lee that were inadvertently omitted from the Notes on Contributors section of the November 2005 issue of "Feminist Economics" is presented.

This study examines connections between intergroup inequality and macroeconomic outcomes, considering various channels through which gender, growth, and development interact. It upholds the salience not only of equality in opportunities but also equality in outcomes. The contribution argues that inequalities based on gender, race, ethnicity, and class undermine the ability to provision and expand capabilities, and it examines the macroeconomic policies that are likely to promote broadly shared development. It explores how the macroeconomy acts as a structure of constraint in achieving gender equality and in turn how gender relations in areas like education and wage gaps can have macro-level impacts. Further, it underscores that the interaction of the macroeconomy and gender relations depends on the structure of the economy, the nature of job segregation, the particular measure of gender inequality, and a country's international relations. Finally, it outlines policies for promoting gender equality as both an intrinsic goal and a step toward improving well-being. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]