This book analyzes the specific demographic implications and conditioning factors of women's experience of poverty. By investigating the different experiences that women in developing countries face in attempting to escape from poverty, the contributors illustrate the importance of incorporating the gender perspective into population studies.

• Introduction: Women, Poverty, and Demographic Change in Developing Countries


• Part I: Overview and Critical Issues


• 1: Alaka Malwade Basu: Women, Poverty, and Demographic Change: Some Possible Interrelationships over Time and Space


• 2: Bhanu B. Niraula and S. Phillip Morgan: Gender Inequality in Two Nepali Settings


• Part II: Nuptiality, Fertility, and Abortion Practices by Poverty Status


• 3: Orlandina de Oliveira: Quality of Life and Marital Experiences in Mexico


• 4: Edith A. Pantelides, Graciela Infesta Dominguez, and Rosa N. Geldstein: Adolescent Women in Buenos Aires: The Influence of Social Class and Gender Images on Reproductive Behaviour


• 5: Susheela Singh and Mario Monteiro: Levels of Childbearing, Contraception, and Abortion in Brazil: Differentials by Poverty Status


• Part III: Strategies to Alleviate Poverty: Women's Extra-Domestic Work and Migration


• 6: Anju Malhotra and Deborah S. DeGraff: Daughters and Wives: Marital Status, Poverty, and Young Women's Employment in Sri Lanka


• 7: Zeba Sathar and Sonalde Desai: Class and Gender in Rural Pakistan: Differentials in Economic Activity


• 8: Hania Zlotnik: Female Migration in Relation to Female Labour Force Participation: Implications for the Alleviation of Poverty


• 9: Katherine M. Donato and Shawn Malia Kanaiupuni: Women's Status and Demographic Change: The Case of Mexico-US Migration


• 10: Michael Tawanda: Household Social Dynamics and the Retention of Rural Population: A Malian Case Study of the Link between Patriarchy and the Sustained Ruralization of Sub-Saharan Africa


• Part IV: Health Care Behviour in the Context of Poverty


• 11: Pavalavalli Govindasamy: Poverty, Women's Status, and the Utilization of Health Services in Egypt


• 12: Sonalde Desai: Maternal Education and Child Health: Evidence and Ideology