While progress has been made in increasing female labor force participation (FLFP) in the last 20 years, large gaps remain. The latest Fund research shows that improving gender diversity can result in larger economic gains than previously thought. Indeed, gender diversity brings benefits all its...

This book explores how around the world, women’s increased presence in the labor force has reorganized the division of labor in households, affecting different regions depending on their cultures, economies, and politics; as well as the nature and size of their welfare states and the gendering...

Editors biography -- Contributor biography -- Introduction -- Women and economic sustainability -- Making visible the invisible : women's unpaid labour / Diana Sabotinova (Bulgaria) -- Employing women in the western Balkans / Zorka Grandov (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Radica Jovanovic and Olivera...