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Will the rapid changes in the roles of women alter the economic and demographic destinies of nations?

Contents:

Conference Volumes:

 

Aderanti Adepoju and Christine Oppong, (editors), Gender, Work and Population in Sub-Saharan Africa, Heinemann, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1994.



Nora Federici, Karen O. Mason and Solvi Sogner, (editors), Women's Position and Demographic Change, International Studies in Demography, 1993, Clarendon Press, Oxford England, 1993.

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Monographs:

 

Alaka M. Basu, Culture, The Status of Women and Demographic Behaviour: Illustrated With The Case of India, Clarendon Press, Oxford, England, 1992.

 

Naohiro Ogawa, Female Labor Supply and Family Size Aspirations in Contemporary Japan, NUPRI Research Paper No. 59, December 1991, Nihon University, Population Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan

 

Ruth Dixon-Miller and Richard Anker, Assessing Women's Economic Contribution to Development, Geneva, International Labor Organization, 1988.

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Articles:

Contents:


OVERVIEW

 

Almaz Eshete, "Population and Women in Development: Gender Issues in the Context of Women in Development" in African Development Review, Vol. 4, No. 2, December 1992, pp. 79-117.

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WOMEN AND THE FAMILY

 

Ashish Bose, "Gender Issues and Population Change: Tradition, Technology and Social Turbulence" in International Social Science Journal, Vol. 46, No.3, September 1994, pp. 387-395.

 

Valerie K. Oppenheimer, "Women's Rising Employment and the Future of the Family in Industrial Societies" in Population and Development Review, Vol. 20, No. 2, June 1994, pp. 293-342.

 

Cynthia B. Lloyd, "Family and Gender Issues for Population Policy", Population Council Research Division Working Papers, No. 48, 1993, pp. 1-48.

 

Eva M. Bernhardt, Changing Family Ties, Women's Position and Low Fertility" in Nora Federici, Karen O. Mason and Solvi Sogner, (editors), Women's Position and Demographic Change, International Studies in Demography, 1993, Clarendon Press, Oxford England, 1993.

 

Judith Bruce and Cynthia Lloyd. "Finding the Ties That Bind: Beyond Headship and the Household", Population Council Research Division Working Papers, No. 41, 1992, pp. 1-37.

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THE FATE OF FEMALE CHILDREN IN CHINA AND INDIA

 

China

 

Zeng Yi, Tu Ping, Gu Boachang, Xu Yi, Li Bohua and Li Yongping, "Causes and Implications of the Recent increase in the Reported Sex Ratio at Birth in China", in Population and Development Review, Volume 19, Number 2, June 1993, pp. 283-302.

 

India

 

Sunita Kishor, "May God Give Sons to All: Gender and Child Mortality in India", in American Sociological Review, Vol. 58, No. 2, pp. 247-265.

 

Monica Das Gupta, "Selective Discrimination Against Female Children in Rural Punjab, India", in Population and Development Review, Volume 13, Number 1, March 1987, pp. 77-100.

 

SEXUAL INEQUALITY IN DEVELOPED AND DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

 

Cynthia B. Lloyd and Anastasia Lloyd-Brandon, "Women's Role in Maintaining Households: Family Welfare and Sexual Inequality in Ghana", Population Studies, Vol. 47, No. 1, March 1993, pp. 115-132.

 

James P. Smith and Michael Ward, "Women in the Labor Market and in the Family" in The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Volume 3, Number 1, Winter 1989, pp. 9-23.

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FERTILITY, MORTALITY AND THE STATUS OF WOMEN

 

Fertility

 

Anju Malhotra, Reeve Vanneman and Sunita Kishor, "Fertility, Patriarchy and Development in India" in Population and Development Review, Volume 21, Number 2, June 1995, pp. 281-305.

 

Karen O. Mason, "The Impact of Women's Position on Demographic Change During the Course of Development", in Nora Federici, Karen O. Mason and Solvi Sogner, (editors), Women's Position and Demographic Change, International Studies in Demography, 1993, Clarendon Press, Oxford England, 1993.

 

Sonalde Desai and Devkai Jain, "Maternal Employment and Changes in Family Dynamics: The Social Context of Women's Work in Rural South India", Population Council Research Division Working Papers, No. 41, 1992, pp. 1-37.

 

Carol Vlassoff, "Progress and Stagnation: Changes in Fertility and Women's Position in an Indian Village", Population Studies, Vol. 46, No. 2, July 1992, pp.195-212.

 

Carla Makhlouf Obermeyer, "Islam, Women and Politics", in Population and Development Review, Volume 18, Number 1, September 1992, pp. 33-60.

 

Zeba Sathar, Nigel Crook, Christine Callum and Shanaz Khazi, "Women's Status and Fertility Change in Pakistan" in Population and Development Review, Volume 14, Number 3, September 1988, pp. 415-433.

 

Mortality

 

Katherine L. Bourne and George M. Walker, Jr. "The Differential Effect of Mother's Education on Mortality of Boys and Girls in India" in Population Studies, Volume 45, Number 2, July 1991, pp. 203-220.

 

Abbas Bhuiya an Kim Streatfield "Mother's Education and Survival of Female Children in Rural Bangladesh" in Population Studies, Volume 45, Number 2, July 1991, pp. 253-264.

 

Monica Das Gupta, "Death Clustering, Mother's Education and the Determinants of Child Mortality in Rural Punjab, India", in Population Studies, Volume 44, Number 3, November 1990, pp. 489-505.

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FERTILTY AND MATERNAL EMPLOYMENT

 

Marya Buvinic, "Population Policy and Family Planning Programmes: Contibutions from a Focus on Women" in Graham-Smith, Francis, (editor), Population-The Complex Reality. A Report of the Summit of the World's Scientific Academies, North American Press, Golden Colorado, 1994, pp. 211-228.

 

Ann K. Blanc and Cynthia B. LLoyd, "Women's Work, Child Bearing and Child Rearing Over the Life Cycle in Ghana" in Aderanti Adepoju and Christine Oppong, (editors), Gender, Work and Population in Sub-Saharan Africa, Heinemann, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1994, pp. 112-131.

 

Aderanti Adepoju, "Women, Work and Ferility in Swaziland" in Aderanti Adepoju and Christine Oppong, (editors), Gender, Work and Population in Sub-Saharan Africa, Heinemann, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1994, pp. 157-172.

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FERTILITY POLICIES

 

Economic Incentives



John Bongaarts, "Population Policy Options in the Developing World", Science, Vol. 263, No. 5148, Feb 11, 1994, pp. 771-776.



Henry P. David, Population Policy and Reproductive Behaviour: Incentives and Disincentives, in Advances in Population: Psychosocial Perspectives, Vol. 1, 1993, pp. 1-33.



John Cleland and Warren Robinson, "The Use of Payments and Benefits to Influence Reproductive Behaviour" in Family Planning Programes and Fertility Control, edited by James F. Phillips and John A. Ross, Clarendon Press, Oxford, England, 1992, pp. 159-177.



Cost-Benefit Studies







Ronald D. Lee and Timothy Miller, Population Growth, Externalities to Childbearing and Fertility Policy in Developing Countries", In Proceedings of the World Bank Annual Conference on Development Economics, 1990, World Bank, Washington, D.C., 1991, pp. 275-308.

 

ADDITIONS

 

May 9 and 11



Will the rapid changes in the roles of women

alter the economic and demographic

destinies of nations?



Conference Volumes:



Aderanti Adepoju and Christine Oppong, (editors), Gender, Work and Population in Sub-Saharan Africa, Heinemann, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1994.



Nora Federici, Karen O. Mason and Solvi Sogner, (editors), Women's Position and Demographic Change, International Studies in Demography, 1993, Clarendon Press, Oxford England, 1993.



Monographs:



Alaka M. Basu, Culture, The Status of Women and Demographic Behaviour: Illustrated With The Case of India, Clarendon Press, Oxford, England, 1992.



Naohiro Ogawa, Female Labor Supply and Family Size Aspirations in Contemporary Japan, NUPRI Research Paper No. 59, December 1991, Nihon University, Population Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan



Ruth Dixon-Miller and Richard Anker, Assessing Women's Economic Contribution to Development, Geneva, International Labor Organization, 1988.



Articles:



OVERVIEW



Almaz Eshete, "Population and Women in Development: Gender Issues in the Context of Women in Development" in African Development Review, Vol. 4, No. 2, December 1992, pp. 79-117.



WOMEN AND THE FAMILY



Ashish Bose, "Gender Issues and Population Change: Tradition, Technology and Social Turbulence" in International Social Science Journal, Vol. 46, No.3, September 1994, pp. 387-395.



Valerie K. Oppenheimer, "Women's Rising Employment and the Future of the Family in Industrial Societies" in Population and Development Review, Vol. 20, No. 2, June 1994, pp. 293-342.

 

Cynthia B. Lloyd, "Family and Gender Issues for Population Policy", Population Council Research Division Working Papers, No. 48, 1993, pp. 1-48.



Eva M. Bernhardt, Changing Family Ties, Women's Position and Low Fertility" in Nora Federici, Karen O. Mason and Solvi Sogner, (editors), Women's Position and Demographic Change, International Studies in Demography, 1993, Clarendon Press, Oxford England, 1993.



Judith Bruce and Cynthia Lloyd. "Finding the Ties That Bind: Beyond Headship and the Household", Population Council Research Division Working Papers, No. 41, 1992, pp. 1-37.





THE FATE OF FEMALE CHILDREN IN CHINA AND INDIA

 

China



Zeng Yi, Tu Ping, Gu Boachang, Xu Yi, Li Bohua and Li Yongping, "Causes and Implications of the Recent increase in the Reported Sex Ratio at Birth in China", in Population and Development Review, Volume 19, Number 2, June 1993, pp. 283-302.



India



Sunita Kishor, "May God Give Sons to All: Gender and Child Mortality in India", in American Sociological Review, Vol. 58, No. 2, pp. 247-265.



Monica Das Gupta, "Selective Discrimination Against Female Children in Rural Punjab, India", in Population and Development Review, Volume 13, Number 1, March 1987, pp. 77-100.





SEXUAL INEQUALITY IN DEVELOPED AND DEVELOPING COUNTRIES



Cynthia B. Lloyd and Anastasia Lloyd-Brandon, "Women's Role in Maintaining Households: Family Welfare and Sexual Inequality in Ghana", Population Studies, Vol. 47, No. 1, March 1993, pp. 115-132.



James P. Smith and Michael Ward, "Women in the Labor Market and in the Family" in The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Volume 3, Number 1, Winter 1989, pp. 9-23.





FERTILITY, MORTALITY AND THE STATUS OF WOMEN



Fertility



Anju Malhotra, Reeve Vanneman and Sunita Kishor, "Fertility, Patriarchy and Development in India" in Population and Development Review, Volume 21, Number 2, June 1995, pp. 281-305.



Karen O. Mason, "The Impact of Women's Position on Demographic Change During the Course of Development", in Nora Federici, Karen O. Mason and Solvi Sogner, (editors), Women's Position and Demographic Change, International Studies in Demography, 1993, Clarendon Press, Oxford England, 1993.

Sonalde Desai and Devkai Jain, "Maternal Employment and Changes in Family Dynamics: The Social Context of Women's Work in Rural South India", Population Council Research Division Working Papers, No. 41, 1992, pp. 1-37.



Carol Vlassoff, "Progress and Stagnation: Changes in Fertility and Women's Position in an Indian Village", Population Studies, Vol. 46, No. 2, July 1992, pp.195-212.



Carla Makhlouf Obermeyer, "Islam, Women and Politics", in Population and Development Review, Volume 18, Number 1, September 1992, pp. 33-60.

 

Zeba Sathar, Nigel Crook, Christine Callum and Shanaz Khazi, "Women's Status and Fertility Change in Pakistan" in Population and Development Review, Volume 14, Number 3, September 1988, pp. 415-433.



Mortality





Katherine L. Bourne and George M. Walker, Jr. "The Differential Effect of Mother's Education on Mortality of Boys and Girls in India" in Population Studies, Volume 45, Number 2, July 1991, pp. 203-220.



Abbas Bhuiya an Kim Streatfield "Mother's Education and Survival of Female Children in Rural Bangladesh" in Population Studies, Volume 45, Number 2, July 1991, pp. 253-264.



Monica Das Gupta, "Death Clustering, Mother's Education and the Determinants of Child Mortality in Rural Punjab, India", in Population Studies, Volume 44, Number 3, November 1990, pp. 489-505.



FERTILTY AND MATERNAL EMPLOYMENT



Marya Buvinic, "Population Policy and Family Planning Programmes: Contibutions from a Focus on Women" in Graham-Smith, Francis, (editor), Population-The Complex Reality. A Report of the Summit of the World's Scientific Academies, North American Press, Golden Colorado, 1994, pp. 211-228.



Ann K. Blanc and Cynthia B. LLoyd, "Women's Work, Child Bearing and Child Rearing Over the Life Cycle in Ghana" in Aderanti Adepoju and Christine Oppong, (editors), Gender, Work and Population in Sub-Saharan Africa, Heinemann, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1994, pp. 112-131.



Aderanti Adepoju, "Women, Work and Ferility in Swaziland" in Aderanti Adepoju and Christine Oppong, (editors), Gender, Work and Population in Sub-Saharan Africa, Heinemann, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1994, pp. 157-172.





FERTILITY POLICIES



Economic Incentives



John Bongaarts, "Population Policy Options in the Developing World", Science, Vol. 263, No. 5148, Feb 11, 1994, pp. 771-776.



Henry P. David, Population Policy and Reproductive Behaviour: Incentives and Disincentives, in Advances in Population: Psychosocial Perspectives, Vol. 1, 1993, pp. 1-33.



John Cleland and Warren Robinson, "The Use of Payments and Benefits to Influence Reproductive Behaviour" in Family Planning Programes and Fertility Control, edited by James F. Phillips and John A. Ross, Clarendon Press, Oxford, England, 1992, pp. 159-177.



Cost-Benefit Studies







Ronald D. Lee and Timothy Miller, Population Growth, Externalities to Childbearing and Fertility Policy in Developing Countries", In Proceedings of the World Bank Annual Conference on Development Economics, 1990, World Bank, Washington, D.C., 1991, pp. 275-308.