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Women's education in the Third World [electronic resource] : comparative perspectives / edited by Gail P. Kelly and Carolyn M. Elliott.

Kelly, Gail Paradise. (Added Author). Elliott, Carolyn M., 1937- (Added Author).

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  • ISBN: 0585089973 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 9780585089973 (electronic bk.)
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (ix, 406 p.) : ill.
  • Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, c1982.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-397) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Orientations toward the study of women's education in the third world / Gail P. Kelly and Carolyn M. Elliott -- The participation of women in education in the third world / Mary Jean Bowman and C. Arnold Anderson -- Educating girls in Tunisia : issues generated by the drive for universal enrollment / Marie Thourson Jones -- Social origins and sex-differential schooling in the Philippines / Peter C. Smith and Paul P.L. Cheung -- Sex and ethnic differences in educational investment in Malaysia : the effect of reward structures / Bee-Lan Chang Wang -- Lack of time as an obstacle to women's education : the case of Upper Volta / Brenda Gael McSweeney and Marion Freedman -- Sex differences in educational attainment : the process / Jeremy D. Finn, Janet Reis, and Loretta Dulberg -- Church, state and education in Belgian Africa : implications for contemporary third world women / Barbara A. Yates.
An action-research project on universal primary education : the plan and the process / Chitra Naik -- Images of men and women in Indian textbooks / Narendra Nath Kalia -- The impact of western schools on girls' expectations : a Togolese case / Karen Coffyn Biraimah -- Sex differences in the labor market outcomes of education / Rati Ram -- Women, schooling and work in Chile : evidence from a longitudinal study / Ernesto Schiefelbein and Joseph P. Farrell -- Women, work and science in India / Maithreyi Krishna Raj -- The impact of education on the female labor force in Argentina and Paraguay / Catalina H. Wainerman -- Influences of women's schooling on maternal behavior in the third world / Robert A. Le Vine -- Education and fertility : an expanded examination of the evidence / Susan H. Cochrane -- New directions for research / Carolyn M. Elliott and Gail P. Kelly -- Women and schooling in the third world : a bibliography / David H. Kelly and Gail P. Kelly.
Source of Description Note:
Description based on print version record.
Subject: Women > Education.
Electronic books
EDUCATION > History.
EDUCATION > Comparative.
Women > Education > Developing countries.
Developing countries.
Genre: Electronic books.

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