The Economics of Women: A BATCH from The MIT Press

This is a remarkably eclectic collection that examines the growth of women’s economic power across a wide range of time periods, countries, and cultures. Collectively, these articles conclude that when we give women economic power, they use it wisely and with positive effect. About BATCHES The BATCHES Series from the MIT Press features collections of journal articles on themes identified by and currently resonating with readers. The collections are curated by authoritative voices in the editors, authors, scholars, and practitioners. Each BATCH is bundled for immediate download, and the series represents the rapid, responsive innovation that the MIT Press provides to its readership. Invisible Women Catherine Bertini Dædalus 144:4 (Fall 2015) women, nutrition, hunger, invisible, policy-making, household, community, governments Daughters and Left-Wing Voting Andrew J. Oswald and Nattavudh Powdthavee The Review of Economics and Statistics 92:2 (May 2010) feminism, women’s movement, left-wing, voting, daughters “To Well and Truly Administer”: Female Administrators and Estate Settlement in Newport, Rhode Island, 1730–1776. Sara T. Damiano The New England Quarterly 86:1 (March 2013) Ann Maylem, estate, wills, settlement, widow, Newport, female administrators “Every Woman Counts”: A Gender-Analysis of Numeracy in the Low Countries during the Early Modern Period Tine de Moor and Jan Luiten van Zanden The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 41:1 (Autumn 2010) Industrial Revolution, medieval, human capital, gender, women, economics, Low Countries, numeracy, literacy “Oh Dear! How the Factory Girls Do Rig Up!”: Lowell's Self-Fashioning Workingwomen Sylvia Jenkins Cook The New England Quarterly 83:2 (June 2010) female, development, identity, working-class, factory workers, clothing, books, workingwomen Putting Women at the Center of Building Back Better in Haiti Isobel Coleman and Mary Ellen Iskenderian Technology, Governance, & (Fall 2010) Haiti, women, productivity, rebuilding, development, post-disaster, female entrepreneurs One Step African-American Married Women in the South, 1950-1960 Craig W. Heinicke The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 31:1 (Summer 2000) labor force, African-American, women, South, 1950s, progress, economic empowerment Camfed Accounting to the Girl Lance Croffoot-Suede and Diana Good Technology, Governance, & Globalization 5:2 (Spring 2010) Camfed, NGO, girls, education, young women, empowerment, Africa, Campaign for Female Education, Ghana, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe Female Entrepreneurship, Agglomeration, and a New Spatial Mismatch Stuart S. Rosenthal and William C. Strange The Review of Economics and Statistics 94:3 (August 2012) female entrepreneurship, agglomeration, segregation, growth, networking Charity and Favoritism in the Are Female Economists Nicer (To Each Other)? Jason Abrevaya and Daniel S. Hamermesh The Review of Economics and Statistics 94:1 (February 2012) discrimination, peer review, fairness, favoritism, gender interactions Cracking the Glass Ceiling and Raising the Roof (Innovations Case Count Me In for Women's Economic Independence) &l