Gender, Population and Development - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195642341 ISBN 13: 9780195642346

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1998

Synopsis

One million women are "missing" from India's population due to female neglect of various sorts--and possibly one million more due to acts of direct elimination before birth. Within that context, this collection employs several field surveys to explore the connections between population, gender, and development by way of two distinct sets of conditions. The first set involves individual endowments--the resources that a household will allocate to its women. The second set concerns the ways in which the productive and reproductive roles of men and women are structured in societies. With the help of theoretical reviews and empirical studies, this book illustrates the powerful, intermediary effects of gender relations in modifying or reinforcing gender biases.

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About the Author

Maithreyi Krishnaraj is on the Indian Council for Social Science Research. Ratna Sudershan and Abusaleh Shariff are both at the National Council of Applied Economic Research, New Delhi.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195642341
• ISBN 13: 9780195642346
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 380
• Editor: Krishnaraj Maithreyi, Sudarshan Ratna M., Shariff Abusaleh