This book is designed for courses relating gender to the economy. Its purpose is to enable readers to get a clear and concise understanding of the gendered character of the economy and of economic policy.

In order to comprehensively do this, the book encompasses:

- the micro level of agency, firms, households and communities

- the meso level of markets and the state

- the macro level of economic growth, unemployment and poverty, as well as globalization and international trade.

The entry point of the book is the...