Labor Market Participation for Women in Romania
Labor Market Participation for Women in Romania

Summary/Abstract: Labor Market Participation for Women in Romania. The paper starts from an economic perspective (using definitions of labor market and disequilibrium) and concepts like discrimination trying to asses the situation of women in Romania. Due to the poor (or the lack) of useful tools in economic theory it will turn to feminist perspectives using concepts like patriarchy and “male breadwinner model”. The changing pattern of female labor market participation in Western an Eastern Europe will be related to overall changes in the labor market when analyzing the situation after the 1945 to our ages. The paper will focus on the differences in historical situation between Romania and the western countries – differences created by political intervention. It will also focus on the different patterns of employment for women in Western Europe. It analyze how political involvement in the past or in the present is changing the situation of the women.

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