Economic Development and Women in the World Community

by Hans C. Blomqvist

Book Overview

After reviewing theories about how women are likely to fare as a result of economic development, the editors and their contributors focus on the socioeconomic status of women and changes in it as a result of processes of economic development in individual countries in five continents. Economic development is supposed to remove impediments to the improvement in women's status. In some developing countries researchers have found that instead of lessening...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275951340
• ISBN13: 9780275951344
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.6"