Taxing Women comprises both an insightful, critical analysis of the gender biases in current tax laws and a wake-up call for all those concerned with gender justice to pay more attention to the pervasive impact of such laws. Providing real-life examples, Edward McCaffery shows how tax laws are...

Critics of anti-discrimination policies argue that such policies are inefficient, because firms in a free-market system hire to maximize their profits and therefore discrimination only occurs to the extent it is rational. Conversely, this Article argues that gender discrimination results even...

Tax and other fiscal policy systems inevitably affect patterns of work, marriage, household formation, child-bearing, and more. These 'micro-level' concerns are important subjects for 'fiscal sociology' to consider from a multidisciplinary perspective. This essay looks at some gendered aspects...