From women's status to empowerment: The shift in the population policy debate

In: The Bangladesh development studies: the journal of the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, Band 22, Heft 4, S. 77-97

Abstract

Initially, women's status as indicated by the level of formal schooling was seen as an instrument for reducing fertility, and became the focus of research and policy interest in the field of population control. The shift of examining women's status more broadly occured around the early 1980s, both to explicate the education-fertility connection, and also illuminate other aspects of women's lives that influence demographic behaviour. The author takes a look at the shift in the population policy debate globally with brief references to South Asia, Bangladesh and Punjab (India). (DÜI-Sen)