Women and the Distribution of Wealth

Carmen Diana Deere is Professor of Food and Resource Economics and Latin American Studies and Director of the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Florida.

This collection focuses on documenting the gender distribution of wealth and addressing how and why it matters within a variety of geographical contexts. It includes examinations of historical, comparative, analytical and policy-oriented work.

1. The Gender Asset Gap: What Do We Know and Why Does it Matter? 2. Qui Bono?: The 1870 British Married Women¿s Property Act, Bargaining Power, and the Distribution of Resources Within Marriage 3. Crippled Capitalists: The Inscription of Economic Dependence and the Challenge of Female Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth Century America 4. 'The Widow, the Clergyman, and the Reckless': Women Investors in England, 1830-1914 5. Gender, Marriage, and Asset Accumulation in the United States 6. The Wealth of Single Females: Marital Status and Parenthood in the Asset Accumulation of Young Baby Boomers in the United States 7. Moving beyond the Gender Wealth Gap: On Gender, Class, Ethnicity, and Wealth Inequalities in the UK 8. Household Bargaining Over Wealth and the Adequacy of Women¿s Retirement Incomes in New Zealand 9. Assets in Intrahousehold Bargaining among Women Workers in Colombiäs Cut-flower Industry 10. Joint Titling: A Win-Win Policy?: Gender and Property Rights in Urban Informal Settlements in India