Brings together academics, lawyers, trade unionists and industrial relations experts to provide an incisive analysis of the impact of globalisation and deregulation on gender inequality in employment. It reviews the evolution of pay equity polices and examines the impact of economic and social trends on divisions between women.

JEANNE GREGORY is Visiting Professor and Head of the Gender Research Centre at Middlesex University. She is author of Sex, Race and the Law: Legislating for Equality and has published articles on equal pay, sex and race discrimination, sexual harassment and women refugees. ROSEMARY SALES is Principal Lecturer in the School of Social Science at Middlesex University and Programme Leader of the MA Gender and Society. She is author of Women Divided: Gender, Religion and Politics in Northern Ireland and Gender and International Migration in Europe: Employment, Welfare and Politics (with E. Kofman, A. Phizacklea and P. Raghuram). She has published a number of articles on migration and social exclusion in Europe. ARIANE HEGEWISCH is a Lecturer and Senior Researcher at the Centre for European Human Resource Management at Cranfield School of Management. She is the co-author of Policy and Practice of European Human Resource Management; European Developments in Human Resource Management and the European Human Resource Management Guide.