Age group ; Demographic behaviour ; Demography ; Family ; Fertility ; Marriage ; Matrimonial status ; Nuptiality ; United States
The AA. examine the effect of women's marriage opportunities on nonmarital fertility rates and ratios across 75 U.S. metropolitan areas. They measure the quantity and « quality » of marriageable men simultaneously specific for women's age, race
, education and place of residence. Only a small proportion of the racial difference in nonmarital fertility appears attributable to differences in the marriage markets of black and of white women.
How employment affects women's gender attitudes. The workplace as a locus of contextual effects in Contextual models in politics.
The AA. examine three mechanisms which might account for the relationship between employment and gender attitudes : the social status provides benefits which cause women to adopt more non-traditional attitudes| employment experiences increase
The AA. examine the impact of mobility on the labor-force status of two-earner households in the United States, in a longitudinal context. A comparison of the impact of mobility on the labor-force status of men as well as women is needed. The AA
. directly compare this status of dual-earner households who migrate long distances, with that of households who move within the same labor market, and with that of households that remain residentially stable. Although there are disruptive effects
Army ; Burma ; Daily life ; Human rights ; Policy ; Political regime ; Status of women ; Violence ; Woman
involved in the movement for democracy and members of ethnic minorities are subjugated to systematic brutality and human right violations by the Tatmadaw. But abuses occur mostly against women who are specially targered by the military, because
they are women. Thus many women are raped as an integral part of the Burmese war against so-called insurgents. - (GL)
Economic activity ; Family ; Feminism ; Legal status ; Occupational activity ; Population ; Social geography ; Status of women ; Sustainable development ; Woman
Trailing wife or trailing mother ? The effect of parental status on the relationship between family migration and the labor-market participation of married women
The paper examines the changing pattern of women's work in rural Malaysia. It shows that the selective mobilisation of labour creates an ephemeral urban work force militating against internal rural development. There is a need to view female
adaptation to modernisation as a dynamic involving considerable exchange, among regional labour markets, economic niches and social statuses.
men and women. Improving economic status of women will also go a long way to bring about fertility transition in rural communities in Ghana.
This article examines the fertility preferences of men and women living at Akplabanya, a fishing community in Ghana. The findings of the study show that demand for labour, expectations of long term security, and gendered power relations have