This volume contains 15 chapters by social scientists, economists, and gender studies specialists from Australia, Europe, and Asia, who explore how to advance development and business practices
through holistic and multidisciplinary perspectives on gender. They consider policy, investment, environment, and innovation and health, discussing the differences and similarities between
gender economics, feminist economics, Austrian economics, and heterodox economics; the impact of microfinance on measures of female empowerment in mobility, decision-making power, control over
finance, awareness, and assets; the impact of microfinance on women in India and Bangladesh, and the cultural barriers they face; barriers faced by women in business partnerships with a spouse
or life partner in the building and construction industry; how the M-PESA mobile banking technology is narrowing the gap between men and women in Kenya; the economic empowerment of women in
Pakistan; and gender diversity within top management teams and boards. Others address human trafficking, social connectedness and the decline in life satisfaction in women in Australia, gender
relations and industrial creativity in Poland, the creative and patent activity of women and men in Europe, and time allocation between paid and unpaid work of women and men. Some chapters were
presented at the first Global Gender Economics Conference (GGEC14) in Sydney, Australia, in June 2014. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
