Gender, work & population in sub-Saharan Africa
Title:
Gender, work & population in sub-Saharan Africa
Author:
Adepoju, Aderanti.
ISBN:
9780852554074
9780852554081
9780435089535
Publication Information:
London : Published on behalf of International Labour Office, Geneva by J. Currey ; Portsmouth, N.H. : Heinemann, 1994.
Physical Description:
x, 245 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents:
1. Introduction / Christine Oppong -- 2. The demographic profile: Sustained high mortality & fertility & migration for employment / Aderanti Adepoju -- 3. Wives & mothers: Female farmers in Africa / Ann Whitehead -- 4. Agricultural policies & women producers / Constantina Safilios-Rothschild -- 5. Measuring women's participation in the African labour force / Richard Anker -- 6. Assessing women's economic contributions in domestic & related activities / Luisella Goldschmidt-Clermont -- 7. Gender-sensitive statistics & the planning process / E. Oti Boateng -- 8. Women's work, child-bearing & child-rearing over the life cycle in Ghana / Ann K. Blanc and C. B. Lloyd -- 9. Women's work & fertility in Zimbabwe: Ending underdevelopment with change / Robert E. Mazur and Marvellous Mhloyi -- 10. Women, work & fertility in Swaziland / Aderanti Adepoju -- 11. Breast-feeding & birth spacing: Erosion of West African traditions / Yaw Ofosu.
12. Family planning & welfare in northern Ghana / Katharine Abu -- 13. The grandmother & household viability in Botswana / Benedicte Ingstad.
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