Women and World Change: Equity Issues in Development (SAGE Focus Editions)

National development cannot be understood without acknowledging the roles played by women in social change -- in every class and society, historically and at present, and in countries at every level of economic development. This volume includes materials concerning the First, Second, and Third Worlds, as well as contemporary case studies presenting a global view of the role of women in shaping social and developmental policies.′...may be used as a text in upper-division or graduate courses in development and social change...it should be required reading for the instructors of such courses as well as for researchers, planners, and decisionmakers.′ -- Contemporary Sociology, Vol 13 No 1, January 1984′...thi