Women's education in the Third World : comparative perspectives / edited by Gail P. Kelly and Carolyn M. Elliott.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kelly, Gail Paradise.

Elliott, Carolyn M., 1937-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Education.

Women.

Developing countries--Education.

Developing countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (262 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c1982.

Summary:

Gail Kelly and Carolyn Elliott have assembled the latest and best available scholarship from a range of disciplines to illuminate the determinants, nature, and outcomes of women's education in third World nations. This study focuses on the undereducation of women in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, delving into its causes, changes in female education patterns and the significance of these changes to societies and to women's lives. Articles in this volume lay the foundation for further research by examining women's schooling from the novel perspective that the social and economic outcomes of women's education are shaped by gender-sex systems that subordinate women to men. Gail P. Kelly is Associate Professor in the Department of Social, Philosophical and Historical Foundations, Faculty of Education, at the State University of New York at Buffalo. She is also associate editor of the Comparative Education Review . A former director of the Wellesley College Center for Women in Higher Education and the Professions, Carolyn M. Elliott is with the Ford Foundation in New Delhi, India.

Contents:

""CONTENTS""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""1. Orientations Toward the Study of Women's Education in the Third World by GAIL P. KELLY AND CAROLYN M. ELLIOTT""; ""PART I: FACTORS AFFECTING WOMEN'S ACCESS TO EDUCATION""; ""2. The Participation of Women in Education in the Third World by MARY JEAN BOWMAN AND G. ARNOLD ANDERSON""; ""3. Educating Girls in Tunisia: Issues Generated by the Drive for Universal Enrollment by MARIE THOURSON JONES""; ""4. Social Origins and Sex-differential Schooling in the Philippines by PETER C. SMITH AND PAUL P. L. CHEUNG""

""5. Sex and Ethnic Differences in Educational Investment in Malaysia: The Effect of Reward Structures by BEE-LAN CHAN WANG""""6. Lack of Time as an Obstacle to Women's Education: The Case of Upper Volta by BRENDA GAEL MCSWEENEY AND MARION FREEDMAN""; ""PART II: EDUCATIONAL PRACTICES AND DIFFERENTIAL MALE/FEMALE OUTCOMES""; ""7. Sex Differences in Educational Attainment: The Process by JEREMY D. FINN, JANET REIS, AND LORETTA DULBERG""; ""8. Church, State and Education in Belgian Africa Implications for Contemporary Third World Women by BARBARA A. YATES""

""9. An Action-Research Project on Universal Primary Education The Plan and the Process by CHITRANAIK""""10. Images of Men and Women in Indian Textbooks by NARENDRA NATH KALIA""; ""11. The Impact of Western Schools on Girls' Expectations: A Togolese Case by KAREN COFFYN BIRAIMAH""; ""PART III: OUTCOMES OF WOMEN'S SCHOOLING: WOMEN AND WORK""; ""12. Sex Differences in the Labor Market Outcomes of Education by RATI RAM""; ""13. Women, Schooling, and Work in Chile: Evidence from a Longitudinal Study by ERNESTO SCHIEFELBEIN AND JOSEPH P. FARRELL""

""14. Women, Work and Science in India by MAITHREYI KRISHNA RAJ""""15. The Impact of Education on the Female Labor Force in Argentina and Paraguay by CATALINA H. WAINERMAN""; ""PART IV: OUTCOMES OF WOMEN'S SCHOOLING: THE FAMILY""; ""16. Influences of Women's Schooling on Maternal Behavior in the Third World by ROBERT A. LE VINE""; ""17. Education and Fertility: An Expanded Examination of the Evidence by SUSAN H. COCHRANE""; ""18. New Directions for Research by CAROLYN M. ELLIOTT AND GAIL P. KELLY""; ""WOMEN AND SCHOOLING IN THE THIRD WORLD: A BIBLIOGRAPHY by DAVID H. KELLY AND GAIL P. KELLY""

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 345-397.

ISBN:

1-4384-0870-6

0-585-08997-3