Priorities in the design of development programs : women"s issues

Four background papers and two reports that resulted from this effort are presented in this volume. The first two papers address the causes and consequences of sex-related biases that exclude women from economically productive work. The following three papers address, respectively, strategies for expanding women"s access to credit, education, and services aimed at enhancing women"s productivity and income-generating capacity. The last paper, a review of a DSB-commissioned state-of-the-art paper, identifies critical factors influencing the relationship between rural women"s social status and their reproductive behavior and explores the impact of rural development projects on women"s status and fertility. Appended is an 18-page bibliography (1934-80).