Women's Position and Demographic Change in Sub-Saharan Africa

Abstract

This volume examines research and policy issues that involve inter-relationships between womens status and demographic phenomena in the countries of sub-Saharan Africa. The volume stems from the considerable concern of both scholars and policy makers regarding the prospects for demographic change in this region in which rapid population growth is exacerbating development problems and making it more difficult for basic human needs to be met....The book is organized in two sections according to whether or not the focus of study is directly on the examination of hypothesized linkages (and their implications) between womens position and demographic phenomena. The first section contains chapters in which womens position is considered either as a contributory determinant or an outcome of changing marriage patterns proximate determinants of fertility morbidity and mortality the spread and control of HIV/AIDS and migration. Chapters in the second section mainly describe the condition of women particularly how gender inequality and discriminations against women in societies dominated by men are manifested in daily life as typified by types of work that women do and how they accomplish them. (EXCERPT)