The strength of the collection lies in contributions dealing with the conceptual and methodological issues that need to be confronted if policy and planning around population and development are to be based on more adequate information, particularly about women.' - Bridget O'Laughlin in Development & Change '...contains a noteworthy introduction by Oppong and a useful overview of facts and issues about African women at work.' -

• INTRODUCTION by C. Oppong - PART I: PPOPULATION PARAMETERS - The demographic profile: Sustained high mortality and f ertility and migration for employment by A. Adepoju - PART II: GENDER BIASES: ASYMMETRY & INEFFIECENCY - Wives a nd mothers: Female farmers in Africa by A. Whitehead - Agr icultural policies and women producers by C. Safilios-Roth schild - PART III: WOMEN'S WORK. TAKING IT INTO ACCOUNT - Measuring women's participation in the African labour forc e by R. Anker - Assessing women's economic contributions i n domestic and related activities by L Goldschmidt-Clermon t - Gender-sensitive statistics & the planning process by E.O. Boeteng - PART IV: BALANCING PRODUCTIVE & REP RODUCTIVE ROLES - Women's work: child-bearing and rearing in Ghana by K. Blanc & C.B. Lloyd - Women, work & fertility in Zimbabwe: Ending underdevelopment with change by R.E. Mazur & M. Mhloyi - Women's work and fertilit y in Swaziland by A. Adepoju - PART V: FAMILY WELFARE &; PLANNING - Breast-feeding and birth spacing: Erosion of West African traditions by Y. Ofusu - Family planning and welfare in northern Ghana by K. Abu - The grandmother and household viability in Botswana by B. Ingstad.