Recent trends in women's work and child survival and development in developing countries raise concerns about the relationship between these two key elements of development. This paper reviews and analyzes the methodology and findings of 50 studies of both women's work and infant feeding practices, and women's work and child nutritional status. Although the pattern of findings is complex and occasionally contradictory, the paper concludes that overall there is little evidence of a negative effect of maternal employment on child nutrition, and therefore no justification for limiting women's labor force participation on the grounds of promoting child welfare.
Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Women's Work and Child Nutrition in the Third World Chapter 3: Women's Work and Social Support for Child Care in the Third World Chapter 4: The Effects of Women's Work on Breastfeeding in the Philippines, 1973-1983 Chapter 5: Breastfeeding and Maternal Employment in Urban Honduras Chapter 6: Women's Market Work, Infant Feeding Practices, and Infant Nutrition Among Low-Income Women in Santiago, Chile Chapter 7: Maternal Employment, Differentiation, and Child Health and Nutrition in Panama: Chapter 8: Child Care Strategies of Working and Nonworking Women in Rural and Urban Guatemala Chapter 9: Effects of New Export Crops in Smallholder Agriculture on Division of Labor and Child Nutritional Status in Guatemala Chapter 10: Women's Agricultural Work, Child Care, and Infant Diarrhea in Rural Kenya Chapter 11: Women's Community Service and Child Welfare in Urban Peru
Biography
Joanne Leslie, Michael J Paolisso
