Woman's Role in Economic Development

Part 1 In the village: male and female farming systems; the division of labour within African agriculture; the plough, the veil and the labourer; population pressure and sex roles in farming; the economics of polygamy; the status of younger wives; work input and women's status; loss of status under European rule; the responsibility of the Europeans; from cultivator to family aid; the revolt of the women; the casual worker; the influence of caste on women's work and wages; cheap labour for the export sector; the female coolie; the impact of agricultural modernization on the employment of women. Part 2 In the town: women in a men's world; sex and race in market trade; work input and earnings of market women; from the market place to the super-market; female services in male towns; domestic servants; industry - from the hut to the factory; women's drop-out from industry; why employers prefer male workers; why women shun the factory; the educated woman; seclusion in the professionals; the feminization of clerical jobs; the pull of white collar jobs; women in the urban hierarchy; sex differentials in industrial skills and wages; the hierarchy of race and sex; the status of white collar workers. Part 3 From village to town: the lure of the town; the value of subsistence production; subsistence activities in urban areas; urban job opportunities for women; the two steps in economic development; the impact of tradition and of imported culture patterns; the pattern of migration and of female work; the Arab and the Latin American patterns; the South East Asian pattern; the African pattern; the unemployment scare; employment opportunities in rural areas; the urban labour market; education as a cause of unemployment; the cost of urbanization; the strategy of development planning; the design of female education; the productivity of female labour; the escape from competition; a new pattern for the future;