Gender, Gender Gap, Economics of
Gender, Gender Bias, Missing Women, Occupational Segregation, Education,
Growth, Female Labor Force Participation, Developing Countries, Gender
Index
Stephan Klasen is considered one of the most
distinguished scholars on gender economics in the 21st century. Over the
past 25 years, he has tirelessly worked to understand the complex
phenomena of gender inequality: From counting the number of missing
women in the world and shedding light on why women go missing, to
showing that leaving girls out of school not only deprives them, but
also robs society of the opportunity to thrive on the talents of its
entire population; from understanding why equal rights and rising
incomes everywhere have not resulted in women participating more at
work, to measuring gender inequality in its various dimensions. This
volume, a collection of some of Stephan Klasen’s most important writings
on the topic of gender inequality, honours his academic life and gives
the reader an in-depth insight into both what we know and don’t (yet)
know about the economics of gender inequality.