Gender and wealth accumulation
An International Perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4237236 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Céline Bessière (0009-0001-0336-6556), Maude Pugliese (0000-0002-2248-7433, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 479-512 |
| Publication date | 2025-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Socio-Economic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1475-1461 • E-ISSN: 1475-147X |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ser/mwaf022 |
| OpenAlex | W4412089937 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 185 |
Why do women accumulate less wealth than men globally? As wealth inequality rises both within countries and worldwide, studies on gender and wealth accumulation are growing rapidly. This scholarship is spread across various disciplines, including development studies, feminist economics, economic sociology, anthropology, finance, business, demography, political science, history, and legal studies. In this introduction to the special issue, we outline the methodological challenges in quantifying gender wealth gaps. We also describe the key factors contributing to these disparities, such as gendered labour divisions, lifetime earnings inequality, differing investment portfolios (e.g., in business ownership, real estate, financial assets), and varying rates of return. Additionally, we examine how marital property and inheritance laws contribute to the gendered reproduction of wealth concentration.Importantly, this introduction presents the eight articles featured in this special issue, which offer new perspectives on the relationship between gender and wealth in different national contexts in Africa, North America, Europe and Asia
Art · Economics · Perspective (graphical) · Political science · Sociology · Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Global Health Care Issues
Hedged Out
The social meaning of money
Inheritance of Wealth
Capital without Borders
Shortchanged
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Empowering Women
The Rate of Return on Everything, 1870–2015
Gender inequalities in ownership and control of land in Africa
Boys will be Boys
Competition, Small Business Financing, and Discrimination
Planning and Financial Literacy
Examining the gender wealth gap
Wealth distribution within couples
Producing Culture and Capital
Joint and Individual Savings within Families
How gender, marital status, and gender norms affect savings goals
Women and wealth in Sweden
How Many and Which Women Own Land in India? Inter-gender and Intra-gender Gaps
Privilege at Play
Wives & Property
Married Women and the Law of Property in Victorian Ontario
World Inequality Report 2022
Dealing in Desire
Accounting for Wealth Inequality Dynamics
Gender, succession and dynastic rule
Conjugal testamentary practices in Canada
Is the United States Experiencing a "Matrilineal Tilt?"
Gender Inequality in Lifetime Earnings
Between‐sibling inequality in inheritances
Gender and Changes in Household Wealth after the Dissolution of Marriage and Cohabitation in Germany
What makes a die-hard entrepreneur? Beyond the ‘employee or entrepreneur’ dichotomy
Gender differences in business performance
Downplaying Themselves, Upholding Men’s Status
Investment, Saving, and Borrowing for Children
Intersectional Wealth Gaps
Interlinking structural racism and heteropatriarchy
Mine, yours, ours, or no one's? Homeownership arrangements among cohabiting and married couples
An Equal Right to Inherit? Inheritance Rights and Gendered Intergenerational Transfers in South Korea, 1971–2010
Property rights and the gender distribution of wealth in Ecuador, Ghana and India
Gender disparities in top earnings
Why women own less housing assets in China? The role of intergenerational transfers
Non-Contributory Benefits, Pension Re-Reforms and the Social Protection of Older Women in Latin America
Her House, His Pension? The Division of Assets Among (Ex-) Couples and the Role of Policy
On the mystery of capital and the myths of Hernando de Soto
Investigating the Gender Wealth Gap Across Occupational Classes
Inequality and Wealth
Cui Bono? The 1870 British Married Women's Property Act, Bargaining Power, and the Distribution of Resources Within Marriage
Measuring Ownership, Control, and Use of Assets
Moving Beyond the Gender Wealth Gap
The Gender Pension Gap in China
Determinants of Wealth Outcomes in Female-Headed Households in Vietnam
Patriarchy and Property Rights among Yoruba Women in Nigeria
The Gender Asset Gap
The Wealth of Single Women
The Evolution of Gender Wealth Inequality in the United States in a Changing Institutional Context
Le « Code des femmes » ? Conflits d’héritage, dynamiques de genre et usages du droit à Cotonou
Consensual Unions, Property Rights, and Patrimonial Violence against Women in Latin America
Gender, Work and Organization in 2018
Where There’s a Will There’s a Woman’
Estate division
The “dreaded” daughter-in-law in Australian farm business succession
Quels facteurs pour expliquer les écarts de patrimoine entre hommes et femmes en France
Microfinance and Gender
Do courts grant women their inheritance shares? An analysis of case law in India
The Impact of Lending to Women on Household Vulnerability and Women’s Empowerment
Empowering women? Inheritance rights, female education and dowry payments in India
Women's inheritance rights reform and the preference for sons in India
What excludes women from landownership in Turkey? Implications for feminist strategies
In sole or joint names? The role of employment and marriage biographies for married women’s asset ownership in later life
Intergenerational farm succession
Enduring Love? Attitudes to Family and Inheritance Law in England and Wales
Self-help housing policies for second generation inheritance and succession of “The House that Mum & Dad Built”
Pooling of Wealth in Marriage
Wealth Accumulation and the Gender Wealth Gap Across Couples’ Legal Statuses and Matrimonial Property Regimes in France
Pension Wealth and the Gender Wealth Gap
My Wealth, (Y)Our Life Satisfaction? Sole and Joint Wealth Ownership and Life Satisfaction in Marriage
Gender and Wealth in Demographic Research
Inheritance in Australia
The Narrowing of the Gender Wealth Gap across the Nineteenth-Century United States
Is there a motherhood penalty in retirement income in Europe? The role of lifecourse and institutional characteristics
Lives in Trust
Why Are So Many U.S. Mothers Becoming Their Family's Primary Economic Support
Explaining the Gender Wealth Gap
Are Married Women Really Wealthier Than Unmarried Women? Evidence From Japan
The Effect of Divorce on Intergenerational Transfers
The Marriage Wealth Premium Revisited
Financial Literacy, Retirement Planning and Household Wealth
Gender Differences in Negotiation
How Similar Are Cohabitation and Marriage? Legal Approaches to Cohabitation across Western Europe
The Great Convergence
Gender and inheritance patterns in rural Europe
A field of one's own
Women in the Global Super Rich. An Analysis of the Forbes World's Billionaires List, 2010-2023
Wealth as a Feminist Issue
Patrimonial Violence
Too much mortgage debt? The effect of housing financialization on housing supply and residential capital formation
Financial oikonomization
Taking the Time
Rethinking economic socialization
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |