CONTENTS:
INTRODUCTION 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.