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Women's empowerment and demographic processes : moving beyond Cairo / edited by Harriet B. Presser and Gita Sen.
Van Pelt Library HQ1240 .W6674 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- International studies in demography
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women in development--Congresses.
- Women in development.
- Women's rights--Congresses.
- Women's rights.
- Women--Health and hygiene--Congresses.
- Women.
- Women--Health and hygiene.
- Human reproduction--Social aspects--Congresses.
- Human reproduction.
- Sex distribution (Demography)--Congresses.
- Sex distribution (Demography).
- Human reproduction--Social aspects.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 426 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
- Summary:
- This book brings together leading researchers and policy advocates to explore whether the concept of women's empowerment is useful for an understanding of key demographic processes. Its contributors identify new directions for demographic research from the analysis of available data that measure women's empowerment, and point to the implications for population-related policies.
- Notes:
- Based on a seminar which was held in Lund, Sweden, Apr. 21, 1997.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0198297319
- OCLC:
- 43810855
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