Economic Development and Women in the World Community

KARTIK C. ROY is Associate Professor, Department of Economics at the University of Queensland. He is also Adjunct Professor at the Swedish School of Economics and Business in Helsinki, Finland, and has authored of 19 previous books and 40 articles in international journals.CLEMENT A. TISDELL is Professor of Economics at the University of Queensland.HANS C. BLOMQVIST is Associate Professor of Economics at the Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration in Helsinki, Finland.

After reviewing theories about how women are likely to fare as a result of economic development, the editors and their contributors focus on the socioeconomic status of women and changes in it as a result of processes of economic development in individual countries in five continents. Economic development is supposed to remove impediments to the improvement in women's status. In some developing countries researchers have found that instead of lessening the forces of restrictions, economic development may, in fact, have strengthened them. The editors call for a greater involvement of women as active participants in the process of dismantling social, legal, and institutional barriers to women's development.

An examination of the socioeconomic status of women on five continents, giving special attention to social and economic discrimination against women and to changes in their status.

PrefaceEconomic Development and Women -- An Overview of Issues by Kartik C. Roy, Hans C. Blomqvist, and Clement A. TisdellDiscrimination and Changes in the Status of Women with Economic Development: General Views and Theories by Clement A. TisdellWomen and Development in Taiwan: The Importance of the Institutional Context by Cal Clark, Janet Clark, and Bih-er ChouThe Socioeconomic Status of Today's Chinese Women by Gao KunEconomic Development, Industrial Trends, and Women Workers in Malaysia by Jamilah AriffinWomen in Japan by Jane Richardson and Paul RiethmullerWomen in South Asia with Particular Reference to India by Kartik C. Roy and Clement A. TisdellWomen and Development in Sub-Saharan Africa with Special Reference to Tanzania by Felix J. Mlay, Kartik C. Roy, and Clement A. TisdellFinnish Gender Contracts by Harriet SiliusWomen in the European Union: Equality Achieved? by Hans C. BlomqvistThe Status of American Women: Modernity, Material Progress, but Suffering from an "Individualistic" Culture by Cal Clark and Janet ClarkThe Magic of the Market and the Price Women Pay: Examples from Latin America and the Caribbean by Helen I. Safa and María de los Angeles CrummettAustralia: Economic Issues of Women in Paid Employment by Sukhan JacksonConclusions by Kartik C. Roy, Clement A. Tisdell, and Hans C. Blomqvist