Womens' Roles and Population Trends in the Third World

<p>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 women’s 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 women’s studies and population dynamics. </p> <p><strong>Part I: Overview </strong> 1. Introduction 2. Demographic Change and the Role of Women: A Research Programme in Developing Countries <strong> Part II: Conceptualizing and Measuring Women’s Roles</strong> 3. The Allocation of Women’s Time and its Relation to Fertility 4. Class and Historical Analysis for the Study of Women and Economic Change <strong>Part III: Social and Cultural Dimensions Influencing Women’s Roles</strong> 5. Female Power, Autonomy, and Demographic Change in the Third World 6. Family Structure and Women’s Reproductive and Productive Roles: Some Conceptual and Methodological Issues 7. A Social Anthropological Approach to Women’s Roles and Status in Developing Countries: the Domestic Cycle <strong>Part IV: Women’s Roles and their Relationship to Fertility and Mortality</strong> 8. The Interrelationship Between the Division of Labour in the Household, Women’s Roles and their Impact on Fertility 9. Women’s Work and their Status: Rural Indian Evidence of Labour Market and Environmental Effects on Sex Differences in Childhood Mortality <strong>Part V: Economic Dimensions Influencing Women’s Roles </strong>10. Women and the Urban Labour Market 11. Sex Discrimination in the Urban Labour Markets: Some Propositions based on Indian Evidence</p>