, the fact that women are increasingly called on to find extra income has implications on their family lives …(english) Women’s disadvantaged position in the labour market can be explained by conflicts between their roles in … increased women’s role in household survival strategies, but their participation does not have the same sociological meaning in …

Working paper reporting on the impact of the education of women, migration and employment on social roles and social … status of Ghanaian women. Based on 60 interviews, covers women workers, rural women, marriage, maternity and fertility trends …, family and child-rearing roles, birth control, abortion and cultural factors. Bibliography and tables. …

influences on marriage, responsibilitys and decision making, woman worker employment, clan family structure and religious …ILO pub-wep pub. Working paper comprising a literature survey of the social role of women in Jordan - discusses islamic … practice, presents folklore interpretations of female social roles, and comments on women's legal status and legislation as …

Divorce and widowhood followed by remarriage are common for women in Africa. A key question is how such discontinuous … marital trajectories affect women's wellbeing. Women's marital trajectories in Senegal are described and correlated with … widowhood as well as subsequent remarriage is documented. Poorer women are more vulnerable to both dissolution and remarriage …

The women labor force participation rate has been increasing in the Togolese society where the Christian and Animist … religions are dominant. However, women work mainly in the informal sector with trade being the major occupation. The significant … participation of women in economic life probably impacts other aspects of their life, notably their reproduction. In fact, women …

women) can help explain measurable outcomes such as marriage formation, intra-marriage distribution of consumption goods …This paper reviews models of marriage, with special emphasis on how the sex ratio (the ratio of marriageable men to …

presence of conflicting family goals within a couple, and show that male scarcity (a decrease in the male to female sex ratio …

women pradhans, I estimate the effect of the Panchayati Raj institutions on age and autonomy over marriage. Results indicate … that women in local government decrease the likelihood of child marriage, and increase the age at first marriage and gauna …. The effects seem to be driven by changes in gender and cultural norms, because there is a reduction in the prevalence of …

women's layoffs; reductions in fertility associated with men's layoffs; and increases in fertility associated with women …

bargaining power within marriage for women most affected by war deaths. The impact of sex ratio imbalance on marriage and family …How does a shock to sex ratios affect marriage markets and fertility? I use the drastic change in sex ratios caused by … World War II to identify the effects of unbalanced sex ratios on Russian women. Using unique data from the Soviet archives …