Research Catalog

Title

Women's education in the Third World : comparative perspectives / edited by Gail P. Kelly and Carolyn M. Elliott.

Publication

Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1982.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Kelly, Gail Paradise.
• Elliott, Carolyn M., 1937-

Description

ix, 406 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Comparison of the education of women in developing countries - covers access to education, sex discrimination in educational opportunity, and sex differences in the content of general education and educational level; discusses obstacles to attendance such as lack of time, cultural factors, and traditional attitudes; examines implications for occupational choice, wage rates, homemaker behaviour, and fertility. Bibliography, graphs, statistical tables.

Subject

• Börngen, ..
• Women > Education > Developing countries
• Women > Education
• Education > Developing countries
• Education
• Women > Education
• Bildung
• Frauenbildung
• Women
• Gender identity
• education of women
• access to education
• sex discrimination
• educational opportunity
• sex
• general education
• educational level
• obstacle
• attendance
• cultural factor
• tradition
• attitude
• occupational choice
• wage rate
• homemaker
• behaviour
• fertility
• statistical table
• éducation des femmes
• accès à l'éducation
• discrimination fondée sur le sexe
• possibilités d'éducation
• sexe
• enseignement général
• niveau d'enseignement
• présence
• facteur culturel
• choix professionnel
• taux des salaires
• femme au foyer
• comportement
• fécondité
• tableau statistique
• educación de la mujer
• acceso a la educación
• discriminación por razones de sexo
• oportunidades de educación
• sexo
• educación general
• nivel educativo
• obstáculo
• asistencia
• factor cultural
• tradición
• actitud
• elección de profesión
• tasa de salario
• ama de casa
• comportamiento
• fecundidad
• cuadros estadísticos
• Developing countries > Education
• Developing countries
• Entwicklungsländer
• developing countries
• pays en développement
• países en desarrollo

Genre/Form

• bibliography.
• graph.
• bibliographie.
• graphique.
• bibliografía.
• gráfico.

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 345-397.

Contents

Orientations toward the study of women's education in the third world / Gail P. Kelly and Carolyn M. Elliott -- The participation of women in education in the third world / Mary Jean Bowman and C. Arnold Anderson -- Educating girls in Tunisia : issues generated by the drive for universal enrollment / Marie Thourson Jones -- Social origins and sex-differential schooling in the Philippines / Peter C. Smith and Paul P.L. Cheung -- Sex and ethnic differences in educational investment in Malaysia : the effect of reward structures / Bee-Lan Chang Wang -- Lack of time as an obstacle to women's education : the case of Upper Volta / Brenda Gael McSweeney and Marion Freedman -- Sex differences in educational attainment : the process / Jeremy D. Finn, Janet Reis, and Loretta Dulberg -- Church, state and education in Belgian Africa : implications for contemporary third world women / Barbara A. Yates -- An action-research project on universal primary education : the plan and the process / Chitra Naik -- Images of men and women in Indian textbooks / Narendra Nath Kalia -- The impact of western schools on girls' expectations : a Togolese case / Karen Coffyn Biraimah -- Sex differences in the labor market outcomes of education / Rati Ram -- Women, schooling and work in Chile : evidence from a longitudinal study / Ernesto Schiefelbein and Joseph P. Farrell -- Women, work and science in India / Maithreyi Krishna Raj -- The impact of education on the female labor force in Argentina and Paraguay / Catalina H. Wainerman -- Influences of women's schooling on maternal behavior in the third world / Robert A. Le Vine -- Education and fertility : an expanded examination of the evidence / Susan H. Cochrane -- New directions for research / Carolyn M. Elliott and Gail P. Kelly -- Women and schooling in the third world : a bibliography / David H. Kelly and Gail P. Kelly.

ISBN

• 0873956192
• 9780873956192
• 0873956206
• 9780873956208

LCCN

82000789

OCLC

• ocm08195424
• 8195424
• SCSB-66194

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library