| 1. Title: Women in the world-system: its impact on status and fertility Author: Ward KB Source: New York, N.Y, Praeger, 1984. xv, 191 p. (Praeger Special Studies) Abstract: This book is concerned with the interrelationships among the world economic system, women's status, and fertility. The author develops the hypothesis that the intrusion of the world economic system through foreign investment and trade dependency has operated to reduce the status of women relative to men in developing countries. Women are not only experiencing the material consequences of underdevelopment and the disruption of their traditional sources of economic livelihood, but also have limited access to the new mode of monetary or wage labor production in the new world economic system. The second main hypothesis is that women's reduced status during underdevelopment has impeded the anticipated decline in fertility. "A fertility decline has not occurred in part because women in developing nations, with reduced leverage over their home and work environments as a result of underdevelopment, often can gain socioeconomic status only through childbearing....Further, under the conditions of underdevelopment, the value of children remains high...." (EXCERPT) Language: English Keywords: DEVELOPING COUNTRIES | ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT | SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT | WOMEN'S STATUS | FERTILITY | SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS | CHILD WORTH | SOCIAL CHANGE | COMMERCE | ECONOMICS | Economic Factors | Population Dynamics | Demographic Factors | Population | Microeconomic Factors | Macroeconomic Factors | Social Sciences Document Number: 199603 |
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