1st Edition
Women, Education, and Development in Asia Cross-National Perspectives
Edited By Grace C.L. Mak
Copyright 1996
286 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
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This volume of twelve original essays examines the interplay between women's education and development, and if and how it has changed women's status, in selected nations in Asia. Educational expansion in recent decades have benefitted women in Asia at least in quantitative terms. Industrialization has also created room for increased waged employment for them. However, the relative openness of... Read more
Part I East Asia; Chapter 1 The People’s Republic of China, Grace C. L. Mak; Chapter 2 Japan, Machiko Matsui; Chapter 3 South Korea, Oksoon Kim; Chapter 4 Taiwan, Republic of China, Hsiao-chin Hsieh; Part II Southeast Asia; Chapter 5 Indonesia, Mayling Oey-Gardiner, Riga-Adiwoso Suprapto; Chapter 6 Malaysia, Robiah Sidin; Chapter 7 Singapore, Guat Tin Low; Part III South Asia; Chapter 8 India, Ratna Ghosh, Abdulaziz Talbani; Chapter 9 Pakistan, Kowsar P. Chowdbury; Chapter 10 Sri Lanka, Swarna Jayaweera;
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"The book does a great job mapping out the complex interrelationship of development, education, and impacts on women's life in Asia. The book is rich in information and the writing are clear and well organized. It can make a good introductory book on gender issues in developing countries, or a textbook on women and education from a cross-national perspective." -- Education Review
"Presents a timely, multidimensional, and international discussion about what it means for women's daily lives to say that they are no longer invisible within nor peripheral to economic analysis and development policy and practice." -- Comparative Education Review
