Gail P. Kelly is Associate Professor in the Department of Social, Philosophical and Historical Foundations, Faculty of Education, at the State University of New York at Buffalo. She is also associate editor of the Comparative Education Review. A former director of the Wellesley College Center for Women in Higher Education and the Professions, Carolyn M. Elliott is with the Ford Foundation in New Delhi, India.

"This volume represents the best in comparative education. It makes use of scholarship and insights from a number of social science disciplines; it reflects an intellectual coherence. It focuses on education as a key issue in understanding Third World women, but the volume has relevance beyond the field of education. And it reflects the latest scholarship that is available." — Philip G. Altbach, Comparative Education Center, State University of New York at Buffalo.

• Acknowledgments 1. Orientations Toward the Study of Women's Education in the Third WorldGail P. Kelly and Carolyn M. Elliott Part One: Factors Affecting Women's Access to Education 2. The Participation of Women in Education in the Third WorldMary Jean Bowman and C. Arnold Anderson 3. Educating Girls in Tunisia: Issues Generated by the Drive for Universal EnrollmentMarie Thourson Jones 4. Social Origins and Sex-differential Schooling in the PhilippinesPeter C. Smith and Paul P. L. Cheung 5. Sex and Ethnic Differences in Educational Investment in Malaysis: The Effect of Reward StructuresBee-Lan Chan Wang 6. Lack of Time as an Obstacle to Women's Education: The Case of Upper VoltaBrenda Gael McSweeney and Marion Freedman Part Two: Educational Practices and Differential Male/Female Outcomes 7. Sex Differences in Educational Attainment: The ProcessJeremy D. Finn, Janet Reis, and Loretta Dulberg 8. Church, State and Education in Belgian Africa: Implications for Contemporary Third World WomenBarbara A. Yates 9. An Action-Research Project on Universal Primary Education: The Plan and the ProcessChitra Naik 10. Images of Men and Women in Indian TextbooksNarendra Nath Kalia 11. The Impact of Western Schools on Girls' Expectations: A Togolese CaseKaren Coffyn Biraimah Part Three: Outcomes of Women's Schooling: Women and Work 12. Sex Differences in the Labor Market Outcomes of EducationRati Ram 13. Women, Schooling and Work in Chile: Evidence from a Longitudinal StudyErnesto Schiefelbein and Joseph P. Farrell 14. Women, Work and Science in IndiaMaithreyi Krishna Raj 15. The Impact of Education on the Female Labor Force in Argentina and ParaguayCatalina H. Wainerman Part Four: Outcomes of Women's Schooling: The Family 16. Influences of Women's Schooling on Maternal Behavior in the Third WorldRobert A. Le Vine 17. Education and Fertility: An Expanded Examination of the EvidenceSusan H. Cochrane 18. New Directions for ResearchCarolyn M. Elliott and Gail P. Kelly Women and Schooling in the Third World: A BibliographyDavid H. Kelly and Gail P. Kelly Contributors Index