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The status of women and fertility

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

K. B. Piepmeier  and
T. S. Adkins
K. B. Piepmeier
Affiliation:
International Planned Parenthood Federation, 18–20 Lower Regent Street, London, S. W. 1, and King's College, Cambridge
T. S. Adkins
Affiliation:
International Planned Parenthood Federation, 18–20 Lower Regent Street, London, S. W. 1, and King's College, Cambridge
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Summary

There 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.

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Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 5 , Issue 4 , October 1973 , pp. 507 - 520
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1973

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