Women's roles and population trends in the Third World
By: edited by Richard Anker, Mayra Buvinic and Nadia H. Youssef.
Contributors: Anker, Richard, 1943-; Buvinić, Mayra.; Youssef, Nadia Haggag.; World Employment Programme.
Publisher: Croom Helm
Published: 1988
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
Subjects: Women -- Developing countries -- Social conditions.; Women -- Employment -- Developing countries; Developing countries -- Population
Description: "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. Demographic change and 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.
Notes: "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.
Table of contents: title: Demographic change and role of women / Richard Anker; title: The allocation of women's time and its relation to fertility / Eva Mueller; title: Class and historical analysis for the study of women and economic change / Carmen Diana Deere, Jane Humphries and Magdalena León de Leal; title: Female power, autonomy, and demographic change in the Third World / Constantina Safilios-Rothschild; title: Family structure and women's reproductive and productive roles / Christine Oppong; title: A social anthropological approach to women's roles and status in developing countries / T. Scarlett Epstein; title: The interrelationship between the division of labour in the household, women's roles, and their impact on fertility / Nadia H. Youssef; title: Women's work and their status / T. Paul Schultz; title: Women and the urban labour market / Elizabeth Jelin; title: Sex discrimination in the urban labour markets / T.S. Papola.