Economic development and women in the world community
Title:
Economic development and women in the world community
Author:
Roy, K. C. (Kartik Chandra), 1941-
ISBN:
9780313022265
Publication Information:
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1996.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (viii, 247 p.) : ill.
Contents:
Economic development and women: an overview of issues / Kartik C. Roy, Hans C. Blomqvist, and Clement A. Tisdell -- Women and development in Taiwan: the importance of the institutional context / Cal Clark, Janet Clark, and Bih-er Chou -- The socioeconomic status of today's Chinese women / Gao Kun -- Economic development, Industrial trends, and women workers in Malaysia / Jamilah Ariffin -- Women in Japan / Jane Richardson and Paul Riethmuller -- Women in south Asia with particular reference to India / Kartik C. Roy and Clement A. Tisdell -- Women and development in Sub-Saharan Africa with special reference to Tanzania / Felix J. Mlay, Kartik C. Roy, and Clement A. Tisdell -- Finnish gender contracts / Harriet Silius -- Women in the European union: equality achieved? / Hans C. Blomqvist -- The status of American women: modernity, material progress, but suffering from an "individualistic" culture / Cal Clark and Janet Clark -- The magic of the market and the price women pay: examples from Latin America and the Caribbean / Helen I. Safa and María del los Angeles Crummett -- Australia: economic issues of women in paid employment / Sukhan Jackson -- Conclusions / Kartik C. Roy, Clement A. Tisdell, and Hans C. Blomqvist.
Abstract:
After reviewing theories about how women are likely to fare as a result of economic development, the editors and their contributors focus on the socioeconomic status of women and changes in it as a result of processes of economic development in individual countries in five continents. Economic development is supposed to remove impediments to the improvement in women's status. In some developing countries researchers have found that instead of lessening the forces of restrictions, economic development may, in fact, have strengthened them. The editors call for a greater involvement of women as a.
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