Women's roles and population trends in the Third World

Author(s)

• Anker, Richard
• Buvinic, Mayra
• Youssef, Nadia Haggag
• International Labour Organization. World Employment Programme

Bibliographic Information

Women's roles and population trends in the Third World

edited by Richard Anker, Mayra Buvinic and Nadia H. Youssef

Croom Helm, c1982

Note

"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

Contents of Works

• Demographic change and the 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

Details

• NCID: BA02905575
• ISBN:
  • 0709905084
• LCCN: 81182681
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: 287 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HQ1870.9
  • DC19 : 305.4/2/091724
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Women -- Developing countries -- Social conditions
  • LCSH : Women -- Employment -- Developing countries
  • LCSH : Developing countries -- Population