Gender Inequality: A Reference Handbook discusses the role women have played throughout human history and play in the modern day, including both advances that have been made in the fight for equality and problems remaining to be solved.

• Provides readers with a history of the effects of patriarchy on women, one of the longest lasting and most consequential debates in human history
• Summarizes the status of gender inequality in the modern world, with regard to its presence and effects in a variety of aspects of human life
• Supplies abundant resources for further research on the topic by readers of all ages
• Rounds out the author's expertise through perspective essays, giving readers a diversity of viewpoints on the topic