Womens' Roles and Population Trends in the Third World [Paperback]

First published in 1982, this collection was the result of an ambitious and wide-ranging, inter-disciplinary research programme conducted by the International Labour Office (ILO) on the relationship between womens roles and demographic change, with a view to influencing contemporary government and non-government policy and future research in the field. The ILO held an informal gathering of leading researchers in the fields of economics, anthropology, sociology and demography and this volume represents a unique and practically-orientated collection, offering valuable insights into contemporary perspectives on womens studies and population dynamics.

Part I: Overview  1. Introduction  2. Demographic Change and the Role of Women: A Research Programme in Developing Countries Part II: Conceptualizing and Measuring Womens Roles  3. The Allocation of Womens Time and its Relation to Fertility  4. Class and Historical Analysis for the Study of Women and Economic Change  Part III: Social and Cultural Dimensions Influencing Womens Roles  5. Female Power, Autonomy, and Demographic Change in the Third World  6. Family Structure and Womens Reproductive and Productive Roles: Some Conceptual and Methodological Issues  7. A Social Anthropological Approach to Womens Roles and Status in Developing Countries: the Domestic Cycle  Part IV: Womens Roles and their Relationship to Fertility and Mortality  8. The Interrelationship Between the Division of Labour in the Household, Womens Roles and their Impact on Fertility  9. Womens Work and their Status: Rural Indian Evidence of Labour Market and Environmental Effects on Sex Differences in Childhood Mortality  Part V: Economic Dimensions Influencing Womens Roles  10. Women andls?