This year, the well-known publisher house Polirom, from Iasi, has brought to the public a remarkable work, coordinated by Mrs. Andreea Paul. The title itself, The economic strength of women can be regarded as intriguing and suggests a subject which has been only occasionally addressed – that of Romanian feminism within the economic environment. This volume is a follow up of another project, initiated by Andreea Paul 5 years ago, regarding The political strength of women. This became a real success and was able to gather quite a few important names from different political parties under a common voice, proving thus there is a solidarity of women in politics regardless party politics and ideology. The new volume, The economic strength of women, has benefited from 57 major contributions and is organized into three major parts, preceded by an introduction and followed by conclusions. The author starts by presenting the kind of subjects and questions the volume is covering and addressing, such as how much women and men work, where they work and how much they are paid, how the economists define gender inequality and what its impact on the whole society is. The book also looks at entrepreneurship and its motivations, who the successful women are and how they succeed in a fierce business competition, and why there are more and more public initiatives that support women entrepreneurship. On this background, the author reminds us about the initiative of the former European Commissioner on Justice, Viviane Reding, regarding a 40% gender quota on company boards.
