Women in the Workforce: What Everyone Needs to Know? (What Everyone Needs To KnowRG)

Women in the Workforce: What Everyone Needs to Know ® provides an essential and accessible introduction to the significance of women in the economy and the obstacles they face in claiming equal status. Economists Laura M. Argys and Susan L. Averett tackle timely topics like the wage gap, "women's work," and gendered workplace interactions in an easy-to-read question and answer format.

Laura M. Argys is Professor of Economics at University of Colorado Denver. Susan L. Averett is Professor of Economics at Lafayette College. They are co-editors, along with Saul Hoffman, of The Oxford Handbook of of Women and the Economy.