Rural Women At Work. Strategies For Development In South Asia

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Johns Hookinss University Press
Publisher Place: Baltimore
Publisher Year: 1978
Edition: First Edition

Description: 227 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: "Among the many recent books concerned with Third World population growth, this one represents a refreshingly new theme. It questions the efficacy not only of KAP surveys but also of family planning programmes as such. The author outlines an alternative model specifically for South Asia whereby the goals of promoting rural development, raising the status of women, and encouraging delayed marriage and birth control in rural communities could be met by creating income-generating employment in small-scale industires, specifically for women in their early reproductive years, in cooperatively organized central workplaces that offer additional services such as functional literacy programs, family planning, child care, living quarters and financial incentives. Ruth Dixon works out in meticulous detail the various implications of this proposition and discusses associated problems in a scholarly fashion. Her central argument is supported by accounts of five case studies of employment schemes in South Asia in which rural women are currently earning money, in an attempt to evaluate their actual as well as potential social, economic, and demographic impact... This book thus provides a useful set of guidelines for planners and administrators concerned with rural development and population policies; it should also attract a wide audience interested in Third World development in general and the changing role of women in particular."-- The Economic Journal

ISBN: 080182124x