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Mary C. Brinton is Professor of Sociology at Cornell University. She is the author of Women and the Economic Miracle: Gender and Work in Postwar Japan and the co-editor of The New Institutionalism in Sociology (Stanford paperback, 2001).

This volume examines the nature of married women’s participation in the economies of three East Asian countries—Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea. In addition to asking what is similar or different about women’s economic participation in this region of the world compared to Western societies, the book also asks how women’s work patterns vary across the three countries.