Abstract
The publication in 2008 of Michael Ross's “Oil, Islam, and Women” by the discipline's flagship journal, the American Political Science Review, is a welcome development. It is the first empirical work with a primary focus on gender and political economy ever published in the journal and portends well for the development of research that focuses on such questions. My essay has two foci. The first is a critical engagement with Ross's analysis of why oil production negatively affects women's employment prospects. The second is how to further develop the study of gender in the comparative political economy of labor markets.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 568-575 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Politics and Gender |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 1 2009 |
