women's BMIs in the US and how they varied with economic development. This study shows that after controlling for … characteristics, African-American women had greater BMIs than lighter complexioned black and white women. Women from the Southwest … were taller and had lower BMIs than women born elsewhere within the US. However, women's BMIs did not vary by occupations …

This paper provides an introduction to "women and development" by tracing the main trends in the way women's issues … have been conceptualized in the development context. Part I of the paper explains the emergence of women in development … (WID) in the early 1970s, highlighting in particular a dominant strand of thinking within WID that sought to make women …