Women’s Economic Empowerment and the State

Edited by Rhonda Breitkreuz, Professor of Family and Social Policy, Department of Human Ecology, University of Alberta, Canada and Marian Baird, Professor of Gender and Employment Relations, School of Business, University of Sydney, Australia

• ContentsForeword xv1 Setting the stage: women’s economic empowerment from aglobal perspective 1Rhonda Breitkreuz, Marian Baird, Karen D. Hughes and AllaKonnikov2 What is women’s “economic” empowerment? Meanings andmeasurement 30Madeline Robbenhaar, Daniel Dinale, Rhonda Breitkreuzand Marian Baird3 Broadening the focus on women’s economic empowerment inAustralia 48Daniel Dinale, Marian Baird and Alison Williams4 The challenges and achievements of women’s economicempowerment in Brazil through participation in the labourmarket 74Ana Hermeto, Simone Wajnman and Mariana Almeida5 Women’s economic empowerment in Canada through anintersectional lens 99Karen D. Hughes, Amy Kaler and Alla Konnikov6 Entrepreneurship: the holy grail for women’s economicempowerment in Ghana? 123Charles Ackah, Solina Richter, Lydia Aziato and Sylvia Esther Gyan7 Women migrant domestic workers negotiating restrictive statemigration policies 144Bindhulakshmi Pattadath and Meena Gopal8 Women, employment and maternalism in Ireland 159Dorota Szelewa9 The enabling (and disabling) contexts of women’s economicempowerment 180Rhonda Breitkreuz, Haneen Abraham and Vanessa Osei Bonsu

‘This is an excellent book. Grounded in the theoretical literature on women’s economic empowerment, it uses case studies from a range of different contexts across the world to examine how women fare in labour markets and the role that governments play in promoting – or obstructing – their search for productive and dignified work.’