Analyse van demografische gevolgen en bepalende factoren inzake de ervaringen van vrouwen in ontwikkelingslanden met armoede. De auteurs benadrukken het belang van integratie van het genderperspectief in bevolkingsstudies. Bevat de volgende bijdragen: Women, poverty, and demographic change: some possible interrelationships over time and space / door Alaka Malwade Basu; Gender inequality in two Nepali settings / door Bhanu B. Niraula en S. Philip Morgan; Quality of life and marital experiences in Mexico / door Orlandina de Oliveira; Adolescent women in Buenos Aires: the influence of social class and gender images on reproductive behaviour / door Edith A. Pantelides, Graciela Infesta Domínguez en Rosa N. Geldstein; Levels of childbearing, contraception, and abortion in Brazil: differentials by poverty status / door Susheela Singh en Mario Monteiro; Daughters and wives: marital status, poverty, and young women's employment in Sri Lanka / door Anju Malhotra en Deborah S. DeGraff; Class and gender in rural Pakistan: differentials in economic activity / door Zeba Sathar en Sonalde Desai; Female migration in relation to female labour force participation: implications for the alleviation of poverty / door Hania Zlotnik; Women's status and demographic change: the case of Mexico-US migration / door Katharine M. Donato en Shawn Malia Kanaiaupuni; Household social dynamics and the retention of rural population: a Malian case study of the link between patriarchy and the sustained ruralization of Sub-Saharan Africa / door Michael Tawanda; Poverty, women's status, and the utilization of health services in Egypt / door Pavalavalli Govindasamy; Maternal education and child health: evidence and ideology / door Sonalde Desai.

Much has been written on gender inequality and how it affects fertility and mortality outcomes as well as economic outcomes. What is not well understood is the role of gender inequality, embedded in the behavior of the family, the market, and society, in mediating the impact of demographic processes on economic outcomes. This article reviews the empirical evidence on the possible economic impacts of gender inequalities that work by exacerbating demographic stresses associated with different demographic scenarios and reducing the prospects of gains when demographic conditions improve. It defines four demographic scenarios and discusses which public policies are more effective in each scenario in reducing the constraints that gender inequality imposes on poverty reduction.

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.

The increasing gap between developed and developing world will be one of the most important themes of the 21st century. The contributions contained in this volume take a multidisciplinary approach to the problem, offering a comprehensive review of the theoretical issues and empirical findings that relate to the complex and multidirectional link between poverty and demographic behaviours and outcomes in the contemporary developing world. The starting point of the volume is an exact definition of poverty. The contributors go on to analyse in the detail its causes and effects, both at the micro and macro level, concentrating on those factors and consequences which relate more directly to the demographic sphere. Population growth, household structure and labour, fertility, AIDS, urbanization, migration, and mortality are amongst the areas covered, with the major themes discussed and elaborated in an introductory overview chapter.

The World's Women 2010 uniquely reviews and analyses the current availability of data and assesses progress made in the reporting of national statistics, as opposed to internationally prepared estimates, relevant to gender concerns. Published every five years, the World's Women sets out a blueprint for improving the availability of data in the areas of demographics, health, education, work, violence against women, poverty, decision-making and human rights.