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Additional authors

1. Kelly, Gail Paradise.
2. Elliott, Carolyn M., 1937-

Description

1. ix, 406 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

1. Comparison of the education of women in developing countries - covers access to education, sex discrimination in educational opportunity, and sex differences in the content of general education and educational level; discusses obstacles to attendance such as lack of time, cultural factors, and traditional attitudes; examines implications for occupational choice, wage rates, homemaker behaviour, and fertility. Bibliography, graphs, statistical tables.

Subject

1. Börngen, ..
2. Women > Education > Developing countries
3. Women > Education
4. Education > Developing countries
5. Education
6. Women > Education
7. Bildung
8. Frauenbildung
9. Women
10. Gender identity
11. education of women
12. access to education
13. sex discrimination
14. educational opportunity
15. sex
16. general education
17. educational level
18. obstacle
19. attendance
20. cultural factor
21. tradition
22. attitude
23. occupational choice
24. wage rate
25. homemaker
26. behaviour
27. fertility
28. statistical table
29. éducation des femmes
30. accès à l'éducation
31. discrimination fondée sur le sexe
32. possibilités d'éducation
33. sexe
34. enseignement général
35. niveau d'enseignement
36. présence
37. facteur culturel
38. choix professionnel
39. taux des salaires
40. femme au foyer
41. comportement
42. fécondité
43. tableau statistique
44. educación de la mujer
45. acceso a la educación
46. discriminación por razones de sexo
47. oportunidades de educación
48. sexo
49. educación general
50. nivel educativo
51. obstáculo
52. asistencia
53. factor cultural
54. tradición
55. actitud
56. elección de profesión
57. tasa de salario
58. ama de casa
59. comportamiento
60. fecundidad
61. cuadros estadísticos
62. Developing countries > Education
63. Developing countries
64. Entwicklungsländer
65. developing countries
66. pays en développement
67. países en desarrollo

Genre/Form

1. bibliography.
2. graph.
3. bibliographie.
4. graphique.
5. bibliografía.
6. gráfico.

Contents

1. Orientations toward the study of women's education in the third world / Gail P. Kelly and Carolyn M. Elliott -- The participation of women in education in the third world / Mary Jean Bowman and C. Arnold Anderson -- Educating girls in Tunisia : issues generated by the drive for universal enrollment / Marie Thourson Jones -- Social origins and sex-differential schooling in the Philippines / Peter C. Smith and Paul P.L. Cheung -- Sex and ethnic differences in educational investment in Malaysia : the effect of reward structures / Bee-Lan Chang Wang -- Lack of time as an obstacle to women's education : the case of Upper Volta / Brenda Gael McSweeney and Marion Freedman -- Sex differences in educational attainment : the process / Jeremy D. Finn, Janet Reis, and Loretta Dulberg -- Church, state and education in Belgian Africa : implications for contemporary third world women / Barbara A. Yates -- An action-research project on universal primary education : the plan and the process / Chitra Naik -- Images of men and women in Indian textbooks / Narendra Nath Kalia -- The impact of western schools on girls' expectations : a Togolese case / Karen Coffyn Biraimah -- Sex differences in the labor market outcomes of education / Rati Ram -- Women, schooling and work in Chile : evidence from a longitudinal study / Ernesto Schiefelbein and Joseph P. Farrell -- Women, work and science in India / Maithreyi Krishna Raj -- The impact of education on the female labor force in Argentina and Paraguay / Catalina H. Wainerman -- Influences of women's schooling on maternal behavior in the third world / Robert A. Le Vine -- Education and fertility : an expanded examination of the evidence / Susan H. Cochrane -- New directions for research / Carolyn M. Elliott and Gail P. Kelly -- Women and schooling in the third world : a bibliography / David H. Kelly and Gail P. Kelly.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Note

1. Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

1. Bibliography: p. 345-397.