Women, households and change: Note to the reader from the UNU

Women, households and change

		Note to the reader from the UNU
		Foreword
		Prologue
		The household, gender, and age project
		Household and gender in a life-course perspective
		Women and households in a changing world
		The demographic transition in Colombia
		Textile workers in Brazil and Argentina: work and household behaviour by gender and age
		Determinants of women's employment in Chile: a life-history approach
		The impact of macro-events on social structure in Sri Lanka
		The impact of economic development on rural women in China
		Households and historical change on plantations in Kenya
		Other UNU Press titles of interest

Note to the reader from the UNU

Analysis of the impact of macro-events on women and the role of women in determining changes in the household is important for a better understanding of society. In conducting such an analysis, the adoption of the life-course approach, both in retrospective and perspective terms, is particularly useful to identify changing relationships among individuals within the same household and the long-term implications that these changes have on the structure of society.

On this basis, the Household, Gender, and Age Project of the United Nations University conducted between 1983 and 1988 a series of case-studies in Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Kenya, China, and Sri Lanka. After introducing the genesis of the HGA project, its research activities, and the methodology adopted, this volume presents a synthesis of the results of the project research.

Acknowledgement

The United Nations University is grateful to the Division for the Advancement of Women, United Nations Office at Vienna, for its editorial contributions that have helped to make possible the publication of this volume.