Women's education in the Third World : comparative perspectives

Author(s)

• Kelly, Gail Paradise
• Elliott, Carolyn M.

Bibliographic Information

Women's education in the Third World : comparative perspectives

edited by Gail P. Kelly and Carolyn M. Elliott

State University of New York Press, c1982

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Note

Bibliography: p. 345-397

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 1. Orientations Toward the Study of Women's Education in the Third World Gail P. Kelly and Carolyn M. Elliott Part One: Factors Affecting Women's Access to Education 2. The Participation of Women in Education in the Third World Mary Jean Bowman and C. Arnold Anderson 3. Educating Girls in Tunisia: Issues Generated by the Drive for Universal Enrollment Marie Thourson Jones 4. Social Origins and Sex-differential Schooling in the Philippines Peter C. Smith and Paul P. L. Cheung 5. Sex and Ethnic Differences in Educational Investment in Malaysis: The Effect of Reward Structures Bee-Lan Chan Wang 6. Lack of Time as an Obstacle to Women's Education: The Case of Upper Volta Brenda Gael McSweeney and Marion Freedman Part Two: Educational Practices and Differential Male/Female Outcomes 7. Sex Differences in Educational Attainment: The Process Jeremy D. Finn, Janet Reis, and Loretta Dulberg 8. Church, State and Education in Belgian Africa: Implications for Contemporary Third World Women Barbara A. Yates 9. An Action-Research Project on Universal Primary Education: The Plan and the Process Chitra Naik 10. Images of Men and Women in Indian Textbooks Narendra Nath Kalia 11. The Impact of Western Schools on Girls' Expectations: A Togolese Case Karen Coffyn Biraimah Part Three: Outcomes of Women's Schooling: Women and Work 12. Sex Differences in the Labor Market Outcomes of Education Rati Ram 13. Women, Schooling and Work in Chile: Evidence from a Longitudinal Study Ernesto Schiefelbein and Joseph P. Farrell 14. Women, Work and Science in India Maithreyi Krishna Raj 15. The Impact of Education on the Female Labor Force in Argentina and Paraguay Catalina H. Wainerman Part Four: Outcomes of Women's Schooling: The Family 16. Influences of Women's Schooling on Maternal Behavior in the Third World Robert A. Le Vine 17. Education and Fertility: An Expanded Examination of the Evidence Susan H. Cochrane 18. New Directions for Research Carolyn M. Elliott and Gail P. Kelly Women and Schooling in the Third World: A Bibliography David H. Kelly and Gail P. Kelly Contributors Index

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Details

• NCID: BA03967603
• ISBN:
  • 0873956192
  • 0873956206
• LCCN: 82000789
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Albany
• Pages/Volumes: ix, 406 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : LC2607
  • DC19 : 370/.9172/4
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Women -- Education -- Developing countries -- Addresses, essays, lectures