NANCY FOLBRE is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. BARBARA BERGMANN is Professor of Economics at the American University, Washington, D.C. and the author of The Economic Emergence of Women. BINA AGARWAL is Professor of Agricultural Economics at the Institute of Agricultural Economics at Delhi University and is currently a Fellow at the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe/Harvard University and the author of several books, including Mechanization in Indian Agriculture. MARIA FLORO is Assistant Professor of Economics at the American University in Washington,...