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Book SynopsisExamines evidence from across the region and highlights important areas in which policy-relevant research is required.If policies enhancing human development are to be put into practice then consideration is needed of the contribution of women to the labour market in sub-Saharan Africa, where women have the highest rates of economic activity andfertility in a context of the highest levels of maternal and child mortality in the world. Published in association with the International Labour Office (ILO)
Trade ReviewThe strength of the collection lies in contributions dealing with the conceptual and methodological issues that need to be confronted if policy and planning around population and development are to be based on more adequate information, particularly about women.' - Bridget O'Laughlin in Development & Change '...contains a noteworthy introduction by Oppong and a useful overview of facts and issues about African women at work.' - -- Margaret Snyder * Choice *
Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION by C. Oppong - PART I: PPOPULATION PARAMETERS - The demographic profile: Sustained high mortality and f ertility and migration for employment by A. Adepoju - PART II: GENDER BIASES: ASYMMETRY & INEFFIECENCY - Wives a nd mothers: Female farmers in Africa by A. Whitehead - Agr icultural policies and women producers by C. Safilios-Roth schild - PART III: WOMEN'S WORK. TAKING IT INTO ACCOUNT - Measuring women's participation in the African labour forc e by R. Anker - Assessing women's economic contributions i n domestic and related activities by L Goldschmidt-Clermon t - Gender-sensitive statistics & the planning process by E.O. Boeteng - PART IV: BALANCING PRODUCTIVE & REP RODUCTIVE ROLES - Women's work: child-bearing and rearing in Ghana by K. Blanc & C.B. Lloyd - Women, work & fertility in Zimbabwe: Ending underdevelopment with change by R.E. Mazur & M. Mhloyi - Women's work and fertilit y in Swaziland by A. Adepoju - PART V: FAMILY WELFARE &; PLANNING - Breast-feeding and birth spacing: Erosion of West African traditions by Y. Ofusu - Family planning and welfare in northern Ghana by K. Abu - The grandmother and household viability in Botswana by B. Ingstad.
