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Women's Education in the Third World : Comparative Perspectives.
Title:
Women's Education in the Third World : Comparative Perspectives.
Author:
Kelly, Gail P.
ISBN:
9781438408705
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (262 pages)
Contents:
CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. Orientations Toward the Study of Women's Education in the Third World by GAIL P. KELLY AND CAROLYN M. ELLIOTT -- PART I: FACTORS AFFECTING WOMEN'S ACCESS TO EDUCATION -- 2. The Participation of Women in Education in the Third World by MARY JEAN BOWMAN AND G. ARNOLD ANDERSON -- 3. Educating Girls in Tunisia: Issues Generated by the Drive for Universal Enrollment by MARIE THOURSON JONES -- 4. Social Origins and Sex-differential Schooling in the Philippines by PETER C. SMITH AND PAUL P. L. CHEUNG -- 5. Sex and Ethnic Differences in Educational Investment in Malaysia: The Effect of Reward Structures by BEE-LAN CHAN WANG -- 6. Lack of Time as an Obstacle to Women's Education: The Case of Upper Volta by BRENDA GAEL MCSWEENEY AND MARION FREEDMAN -- PART II: EDUCATIONAL PRACTICES AND DIFFERENTIAL MALE/FEMALE OUTCOMES -- 7. Sex Differences in Educational Attainment: The Process by JEREMY D. FINN, JANET REIS, AND LORETTA DULBERG -- 8. Church, State and Education in Belgian Africa Implications for Contemporary Third World Women by BARBARA A. YATES -- 9. An Action-Research Project on Universal Primary Education-The Plan and the Process by CHITRA NAIK -- 10. Images of Men and Women in Indian Textbooks by NARENDRA NATH KALIA -- 11. The Impact of Western Schools on Girls' Expectations: A Togolese Case by KAREN COFFYN BIRAIMAH -- PART III: OUTCOMES OF WOMEN'S SCHOOLING: WOMEN AND WORK -- 12. Sex Differences in the Labor Market Outcomes of Education by RATI RAM -- 13. Women, Schooling, and Work in Chile: Evidence from a Longitudinal Study by ERNESTO SCHIEFELBEIN AND JOSEPH P. FARRELL -- 14. Women, Work and Science in India by MAITHREYI KRISHNA RAJ -- 15. The Impact of Education on the Female Labor Force in Argentina and Paraguay by CATALINA H. WAINERMAN -- PART IV: OUTCOMES OF WOMEN'S SCHOOLING: THE FAMILY.

16. Influences of Women's Schooling on Maternal Behavior in the Third World by ROBERT A. LE VINE -- 17. Education and Fertility: An Expanded Examination of the Evidence by SUSAN H. COCHRANE -- 18. New Directions for Research by CAROLYN M. ELLIOTT AND GAIL P. KELLY -- WOMEN AND SCHOOLING IN THE THIRD WORLD: A BIBLIOGRAPHY by DAVID H. KELLY AND GAIL P. KELLY -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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