Alia Ahmad. Women and Fertility in Bangladesh. New Delhi: Sage Publications. 1991. 184 pp.Price: Indian Rs 185.

1993 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-128
Author(s):  
Naushin Mahmood
Keyword(s):  
Women's Status ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
Women’S Status ◽  
Value Of Children ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
Level Information ◽  
Traditional Societies ◽  
Demand For Children ◽  
Status Of Women

A book on the relationship between the status of women and fertility, Ahmad's study is based on the available literature on the subject as well as empirical findings from a small group of women in two villages and Dhaka city in Bangladesh. The book comprises eight chapters, out of which the first four are devoted to a review of earlier studies and description of macro-level information on the determination of women's status and fertility in traditional societies, including Bangladesh. Then, based on the information collected from 58 rural and 20 urban women, the next three chapters present empirical results on the status of women in the context of their perceptions about the value of children, the demand for children and the costs of fertility regulation. Each chapter, with a summary at the end, provides a variety of arguments and some evidence on those aspects of women's status in Bangladesh which are an outcome of the social and economic processes that tend to perpetuate insecurity among a majority of women. The insecurity is regarded as conducive to the high demand for children and preference for sons. The book, thus, is not only a good source of information on theoretical linkages between women's status and fertility but also provides some evidence on the related issues in the context of Bangladeshi society.

scholarly journals REFLECTION ON THE SOCIAL STATUS OF THE ADYGHE WOMAN IN THE RESEARCHES OF THE EUROPEAN AUTHORS OF THE XVII - XIX  ENTURY

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
З.Х. Кумахова
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Women's Status ◽  
North Caucasus ◽  
Women’S Status ◽  
The North ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Status ◽  
Status Of Women

В данной статье анализируются исследования европейских путе- шественников, побывавших на Северном Кавказе в XVII–XIX в., затрагивающие статус женщины в традиционном черкесском обществе. Выявленные источники классифицируются по сюжетам, описывающим формирование статуса женщи- ны с младенчества до достижения положения матери семейства. В настоящей статье предпринята попытка комплексно изучить вышеупомянутые источники, выявив стороны жизни адыгской женщины, привлекавшие внимание иностранных исследователей. This article analyzes the research of European travelers who visited the North Caucasus in the 17th - 19th centuries. affecting the status of women in traditional Circassian society. The sources identifi ed are classifi ed by stories describin This article analyses the researches of European travellers who visited the North Caucasus in the period from 17th to 19th centuries, that covered the issue of the status of women in traditional Circassian society. The identifi ed sources are classifi ed according to the plot describing the development of women’s status from infancy to getting the position of the mother of the family. In this article, an attempt has been made to study comprehensively the abovementioned sources, identifying the Adyghe woman’s aspects of life, which attracted the attention of foreign researchers g the formation of the status of women from infancy to the position of the mother of the family. In this article, an attempt was made to comprehensively study the above sources, identifying the sides of the life of the Adyg woman, which attracted the attention of foreign researchers.

Spencer's Theory of Kinship Evolution and the Status of Women

1983 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 299-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonard Beeghley
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Women's Status ◽  
Conceptual Scheme ◽  
Women’S Status ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
Status Of Women

This article reconsiders Spencer's sociology in order to show how his social theory is applied to specific topics and to suggest his importance in the emergence and continuing development of the social sciences. The first task is accomplished by applying Spencer's conceptual scheme to the study of kinship evolution and changing women's status. The second task is achieved by critically appraising his social theory, showing how current writers duplicate his mistakes, and extrapolating a number of useful theoretical principles.

The status of women and fertility

1973 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 507-520 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. B. Piepmeier ◽  
T. S. Adkins
Keyword(s):  
Women's Status ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Not Given ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Women’S Status ◽  
The Status ◽  
National Boundaries ◽  
Interaction Research ◽  
Status Of Women

SummaryThere is a great deal of interest in the relation between the status of women and fertility—by humanists, academics and policy-makers concerned with bringing about fertility declines. The three aspects of women's status most frequently linked to fertility are their education, employment and type of husband-wife interaction. Research to date has not given us a clear and consistent explanation of these relationships and has not confirmed causality. The effects of these three factors on fertility vary considerably across national boundaries and even within different sectors of the same society. Some of the assumptions held by both researchers and policymakers must be re-thought in the interests of more useful future research and of sounder policy.

scholarly journals The Role Of Communication In Women’s Status: A Case Study Of UNESCO Activities

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Abida Perveen
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Women's Status ◽  
Daily Routine ◽  
Women’S Status ◽  
Life Styles ◽  
The Status ◽  
Status Of Women ◽  
Images Of Women

This article reviews the activities and research of UNESCO related to mass media and its role enhancing the status of women in the women’s decade. The role of communication in changing the status of women is important because of its influence on our daily routine, behaviour, attitude, life styles and choices. It also highlight the initial researches conducted by UNESCO to evaluate the change in the images of women after women decade.

scholarly journals Women’s Status and Early Childhood Mortality in Bangladesh

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-142
Author(s):  
Mortuza Ahmmed
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Longitudinal Data ◽  
Women's Status ◽  
Childhood Mortality ◽  
Women’S Status ◽  
The Status ◽  
Status Of Women

In this article , an attempt has been taken to focus light on the status of women in Bangladesh and also see its effect on early childhood mortality controlling the effect of other associated determinants. This paper examines the proposition that constraints on women’s status adversely affect the survival of their children. BDHS 2007 data have been used to construct indices of women’s household autonomy and authority , which are then linked to longitudinal data on survival of their neonates.

Country Rankings of Women's Status: An Alternative Index

1995 ◽  
Vol 34 (4III) ◽  
pp. 1025-1039 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasmeen Mohiuddln
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Composite Index ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Women's Status ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Implicit Assumption ◽  
Women’S Status ◽  
Country Rankings ◽  
Population Crisis ◽  
Status Of Women

The purpose of the present paper is to formulate a composite index of the status of women and to rank both developed and developing countries on the basis of that index. This index is presented as an alternative or complement to the current status of women index, published by the Population Crisis Committee (PCC) and used by the World Bank and the United Nations, which focuses on indicators measuring health, education, employment, marriage and childbearing, and social equality. The paper argues that these indicators have a poverty-bias and measure women's status in terms of structural change rather than in terms of their welfare vis-ii-vis men. The PCC index is also based on the implicit assumption that women's status in developing countries ought to be defined in a similar way as in developed countries, thus including primarily only those indicators which are more relevant for developed countries. To remedy these defects, the paper presents an alternative composite index, hereafter labelled the Alternative Composite (AC) index, based on many more indicators reflecting women's issues in both developed and developing countries. The results of the statistical analysis show that the ranking of countries based on the AC index is significantly different from the PCC index.

scholarly journals School Foundation Ceremony in Memory of Fatima-Farida Nauruzova

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 302-311
Author(s):  
Alsou A. Zinnatullina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Women's Status ◽  
Women’S Status ◽  
Female Teachers ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Status ◽  
Girls School ◽  
The Village

The presented article analyzes the solemn ceremony of opening a girls’ school in the village of Karakashly, Aktanysh district in 1915, which was founded in honour of enlightener, the first jourmalist among Tatar women Fatima-Farida Nauruzova. The article describes a brief biography of F.-F. Nauruzova, touches upon the vital issues of that era raised by her on the pages of the “Sibiria” newspaper, including women’s status in the family and society, all-girls schools for Tatars, the status of female teachers etc., mentions the names of many individuals who contributed to the construction of the school.

HONOR, THE GENDER DIVISION OF LABOR, AND THE STATUS OF WOMEN IN RURAL TUNISIA—A SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONAL READING

2008 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 599-621 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Latreille
Keyword(s):  
Division Of Labor ◽  
Mental Representations ◽  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Cultural Perspectives ◽  
Gender Division Of Labor ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
Levels Of Reality ◽  
Social Organizational ◽  
Status Of Women

Some anthropologists can argue that it is impossible to separate thesocial organizational(the realm of groups or aggregates—e.g., households, lineages, and farms) from thecultural(e.g., norms, rules, values, ideologies, and the like—hereafter, normative mental representations) and that the distinction between social and cultural anthropology is therefore an artificial one. To the contrary, others can argue that the social organizational (or “groupal”) and cultural perspectives refer to two analytically separate albeit intertwined levels of reality, sometimes shed a different light on a single phenomenon, and have different analytical value. This distinction I show through the study of the notion of “honor” and its relation to the gender division of labor and to the status of women in Tunisia.

The Status of Women in Athens

1955 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 119-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Seltman
Keyword(s):  
Legal Status ◽  
Married Women ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Ancient Athens ◽  
The Past ◽  
Domestic Servant ◽  
Religious Festivals ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
Status Of Women

It is essential for us to question our own views and those of our predecessors on the status of women in ancient Athens. With few exceptions these views display a kernel of prejudice and a pulp of misunderstanding, skinned over with the bloom of evasiveness. It is, indeed, odd to observe how inquirers into the social framework of Greek society have been misled, and how few classical scholars have attempted to give the lie to the extravagances spread abroad concerning the alleged attitude of Athenians to their womenfolk. Temptation to write up a violent contrast between the daily lives of Spartan and Athenian women was great, and in the last century other half-conscious feelings helped a false presentation. Again and again it has been said or implied that Athenian married women lived in an almost oriental seclusion, and that they were looked on with indifference approaching sometimes to contempt. Quite recently it was alleged in a broadcast that the Athenian social system relegated women to the condition of squaws, the matron being little more than a domestic servant. ‘As wives and mothers’, said the speaker, ‘Athenian women were despised.’ Literary passages have in the past been torn from their context as evidence for this, and the inferior legal status of women has been stressed. There are, however, important exceptions among scholars, of especial value being an essay by Professor A. W. Gomme, and a long section in The Greeks by Professor H. D. F. Kitto, whose remarks on truncated quotations from Aristophanes and Xenophon are very illuminating. Anyone interested in the question is advised to read again pages 219–36 in that little volume, as most of what follows simply strengthens what Kitto has written. In a variety of religious festivals women took conspicuous parts, and with the festivals we may put the theatre, because Athenian women formed a part of the audience, as is admitted in the last edition of Haigh's great work.

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