GENDER, WORK, & POPULATION IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

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"In Africa, south of the Sahara, women exhibit both the highest rates of economic activity and fertility and the highest levels of maternal and child mortality in the world. In spite of marked advances made in the past two decades these economic and demographic facts and their interlinkages are neither well recorded and analysed in the majority of the countries of the region nor adequately addressed in population and development discourse and national planning."--BOOK JACKET. "Yet their effective consideration is vital if policies enhancing human development and family welfare are to be promoted. This volume looks at several aspects of the culturally prescribed and biologically determined roles of women and men, and their relevance to the recording of the facts upon which national policies and plans promoting the welfare of labour and national economic development are supposed to be based."--BOOK JACKET. "Scholars from a range of disciplines provide evidence from the region as a whole as well as from specific countries. In several cases they point to models of data collection and analysis which would help to improve the relevant knowledge bases and consequently facilitate the design of more gender sensitive population and development policies. In addition, they highlight important areas in which policy-relevant research is required."--BOOK JACKET.