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    Gender, work and population in sub-Saharan Africa

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    Date
    1994
    Author
    Adepoju, A.
    Oppong, C.
    Type
    Book
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    This volume looks at various aspects of the culturally prescribed roles of women and men - that is, gender issues - in sub-Saharan Africa and their relevance to the recording of facts upon which national policies and plans promoting the welfare of labour and national economic development are supposed to be based. Contributions: Introduction (Christine Oppong) - The demographic profile: sustained high mortality & fertility & migration for employment (Aderanti Adepoju) - Wives & mothers: female farmers in Africa (Ann Whitehead) - Agricultural policies & women producers (Constantina Safilios-Rothschild) - Measuring women's participation in the African labour force (Richard Anker) - Assessing women's economic contributions in domestic & related activities (Luisella Goldschmidt-Clermont) - Gender-sensitive statistics & the planning process (E. Oti Boateng) - Women's work, child-bearing & child-rearing over the life cycle in Ghana (Ann K. Blanc & C.B. Lloyd) - Women's work & fertility in Zimbabwe: ending underdevelopment with change (Robert E. Mazur & Marvellous Mhloyi) - Women, work & fertility in Swaziland (Aderanti Adepoju) - Breast-feeding & birth spacing: erosion of West African traditions (Yaw Ofosu) - Family planning & welfare in northern Ghana (Katharine Abu) - The grandmother & household viability in Botswana (Benedicte Ingstad).
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    https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12478/5646
    IITA Subjects
    Smallholder Farmers; Socioeconomy; Soil Fertility; Policies And Institutions; Gender
    Agrovoc Terms
    Gender; Economics; Farmers; Fertility; Policies
    Regions
    Africa; Acp; West Africa; Europe
    Countries
    Nigeria; United Kingdom
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