The working papers published by the Center for Women’s Research presented in this volume have been prepared by the authors as state-of-the-art reviews or sector studies. They range over topics such as the implications of liberalization for women, the situation of women’s employment, access to technical and vocational training, gender dimensions of industrial policy, international female labour migration and laws regulating the participation of women in economic production. These are published in this series for policy formulation, action programmes and further research.