Women's roles and population trends in the Third World / edited by Richard Anker, Mayra Buvinic and Nadia H. Youssef.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Anker, Richard, 1943-

Buvinić, Mayra.

Youssef, Nadia Haggag.

World Employment Programme.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Developing countries--Social conditions.

Women.

Developing countries.

Social conditions.

Women--Employment--Developing countries.

Women--Employment.

Population--Developing countries.

Population.

Physical Description:

287 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Croom Helm, [1982]

Contents:

Demographic change and role of women / Richard Anker

The allocation of women's time and its relation to fertility / Eva Mueller

Class and historical analysis for the study of women and economic change / Carmen Diana Deere, Jane Humphries and Magdalena León de Leal

Female power, autonomy, and demographic change in the Third World / Constantina Safilios-Rothschild

Family structure and women's reproductive and productive roles / Christine Oppong

A social anthropological approach to women's roles and status in developing countries / T. Scarlett Epstein

The interrelationship between the division of labour in the household, women's roles, and their impact on fertility / Nadia H. Youssef

Women's work and their status / T. Paul Schultz

Women and the urban labour market / Elizabeth Jelin

Sex discrimination in the urban labour markets / T.S. Papola.

Notes:

"A study prepared for the International Labour Office within the framework of the World Employment Programme with the financial support of the United Nations Fund for Population Activities."

Includes bibliographies and index.

ISBN:

0709905084 :

OCLC:

8173148