Economics of Gender Equality in the Labour Market

Meltem İnce Yenilmez is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, Yaşar University, Turkey; Research Associate at Five College Women's Studies Research Center, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA and Visiting Researcher at Department of Sociology, Lund University, Sweden. In addition to her academic positions, Meltem’s career includes work in the impact of various forces of economics and social change on the constitution of gender relations and women’s empowerment. Her expertise encompasses cyclical patterns of female employment and wage differentials to discrimination, care work and employment patterns in developing countries as well as issues related to gender and development. Aside from the two books she has published, her work also includes women in sports, occupational segregation and gender wage gap. Gül Ş. Huyugüzel Kişla is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics, Ege University, Turkey. She completed her undergraduate study, MA and Ph.D. in Economics at Ege University. She worked at Yaşar University from 2007 to 2009. Afterwards, she joined Ege University as academic staff. She has been working at the same university since 2009. Currently, her primary research interest is macro finance, labor productivity and currency crises.

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