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Under Development: GenderGender and Demography: A Fertile Combination

Under Development: Gender: Gender and Demography: A Fertile Combination [Demography has a long tradition of sex-specific data gathering. We are all familiar with the age pyramids illustrating men and women on a single chart. Traditionally mortality health and marriage have been measured by sex-specific indicators and rates. The concept of gender is used to identify signs, symbols, standards and practices that define the sexual roles assigned to every individual, and that give structure to inequalities, almost invariably to the advantage of men. The socially and historically constructed relations between men and women (gender relations) permeate every aspect of societies: the economy, family life, political organisation, etc. Each society therefore develops a set of specific standards and beliefs over the course of its history that comes to comprise a “gender system”.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Under Development: GenderGender and Demography: A Fertile Combination

Part of the Gender, Development and Social Change Book Series
Editors: Verschuur, Christine; Guérin, Isabelle; Guétat-Bernard, Hélène
Adjamagbo, Agnès; Locoh, Thérèse
Under Development: Gender — Jan 22, 2016
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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014
ISBN
978-1-349-67554-8
Pages
61 –83
DOI
10.1057/9781137356826_4
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Abstract

[Demography has a long tradition of sex-specific data gathering. We are all familiar with the age pyramids illustrating men and women on a single chart. Traditionally mortality health and marriage have been measured by sex-specific indicators and rates. The concept of gender is used to identify signs, symbols, standards and practices that define the sexual roles assigned to every individual, and that give structure to inequalities, almost invariably to the advantage of men. The socially and historically constructed relations between men and women (gender relations) permeate every aspect of societies: the economy, family life, political organisation, etc. Each society therefore develops a set of specific standards and beliefs over the course of its history that comes to comprise a “gender system”.]

Published: Jan 22, 2016

Keywords: Family Planning; Reproductive Health; Gender Relation; Fertility Transition; Fertility Behaviour

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