Women's Empowerment and Demographic Processes

This book brings together leading researchers and policy advocates to explore whether the concept of women's empowerment is useful for an understanding of key demographic processes. Its contributors identify new directions for demographic research from the analysis of available data that measure women's empowerment, and point to the implications for population-related policies.

Harriet Presser is Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center on Population, Gender, and Social Inequality at the University of Maryland. Gita Sen is Professor of Economics at the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore.

List of Figures

ix

List of Tables

x

List of Contributors

xiii

Part I Introduction

Women's Empowerment and Demographic Processes: Laying the Groundwork

3

(12)

Harriet B. Presser

Gita Sen

Part II Theoretical Perspectives on Women's Empowerment

Empowering Women for Reproductive Rights

15

(22)

Gita Sen

Srilatha Batliwala

Conceptualizing Women's Empowerment in Countries of the North

37

(32)

Paula England

Part III Women's Empowerment and Reproductive Health

Reproductive Health and the Demographic Imagination

69

(26)

Ruth Dixon-Mueller

Adrienne Germain

Empowering Women through the Policy Process: The Making of Health Policy in South Africa

95

(24)

Barbara Klugman

Empowerment of Women in Egypt and links to the Survival and Health of Their Infants

119

(40)

Sunita Kishor

Part IV Women's Empowerment and Socio-Demographic Processes

The Consequences of Female Empowerment for Child Well-Being: A Review of Concepts, Issues, and Evidence in a Post-Cairo Context

159

(27)

John Hobcraft

Female Empowerment and Adolescent Demographic Behaviour

186

(18)

Anastasia J. Gage

Women's Autonomy in Rural India: Its Dimensions, Determinants, and the Influence of Context

204

(35)

Shireen J. Jejeebhoy

The Role of Gender Context in Shaping Reproductive Behaviour in Nigeria

239

(22)

Mary M. Kritz

Paulina Makinwa-Adebusoye

Douglas T. Gurak

Economic Restructuring, Women's Work, and Autonomy in Mexico

261

(26)

Brigida Garcia

Migration and Women's Empowerment

287

(31)

Graeme Hugo

Women's Empowerment, Marriage Postponement, and Gender Relations in Japan: An Intergenerational Perspective

318

(33)

Noriko O. Tsuya

Part V Future Directions for Population Policy

Population Policy and Women's Empowerment: Challenges and Opportunities

351

(26)

Carmen Barroso

Jodi L. Jacobson

Appendix: Demography, Feminism, and the Science-Policy Nexus (reprint of paper published in Population and Development Review)

377

(36)

Harriet B. Presser

Index

413

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