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The women of rural Asia / Robert Orr Whyte and Pauline Whyte.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Whyte, R. O. (Robert Orr), 1903-1986.
- Series:
- Westview special studies on women in contemporary society
- Westview special studies on women in contemporary society.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rural women--Asia--Social conditions.
- Rural women.
- Social conditions.
- Asia.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 262 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1982.
- Summary:
- This study looks at the social and economic status, family and workforce roles, and quality of life of women in the rural sectors of monsoonal and equatorial Asia, from Pakistan to Japan, where life often is characterized by unemployment, underemployment, and poverty.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 221-249.
- ISBN:
- 0865312788 :
- OCLC:
- 8467879
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