Shifting from the Home to the Market: Accounting for Women's Work in Taiwan, 1965-95

Authors

Elissa Braunstein, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Working Paper Number

24

Publication Date

2001

Comments

Working Paper 24

Abstract

If one accounts for the shift of women’s work from the household to the market during the course of economic development, what does the trajectory of growth and structural change look like? In this paper, I present an accounting of one such shift by looking at the role of women in Taiwanese growth between 1965 and 1995, a thirty-year stretch when an enviable per capita market growth rate of 6.9 percent, which later came to be called the “East Asian miracle,” was accompanied by large increases in female labor force participation.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7275/1274443