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Seminar on Female Empowerment in Demographic Processes: Moving Beyond Cairo

Lund, Sweden, 21-24 April 1997
Organised by the Committee on Gender and Population in collaboration with PROP, Department of Sociology, Lund university

Scientific Programme

Session 1: What is 'Female Empowerment'? Conceptual and Measurement Issues

Conceptualising Women's Empowerment
Paula England<

Empowering Women for Reproductive Rights: Moving Beyond Cairo
Gita Sen and Srilatha Batliwala<

Reproductive Rights and Demographic Processes from an Empowerment Perspective
Sonia Correa <

Sexuality, Gender Relations and Female Empowerment
Ivonne Szasz and Juan Guillermo Figueroa<

Reproductive Health and the Demographic Imagination
Ruth Dixon-Mueller and Adrienne Germain<

Family Planning Programmes and Demographic Outcomes: the Relevance of and for Female Empowerment
Anrudh Jain <

Gender Discriminations in the Workplace: Implications for Fertility
Barbara Bergmann<

The Consequences of Female Empowerment for Child Well-being
John Hobcraft <

Female Empowerment and Adolescent Demographic Behaviour
Anastasia J. Gage<

Low Fertility, Marriage Perceptions and Gender Relations in Japan: an Intergenerational Perspective
Noriko Tsuya<

Session 3: Case Studies: Developing Countries

The Gender Dynamics of Recent Rapid Transitions: The Cases of Bangladesh and Egypt
Sajeda Amin and Cynthia B. Lloyd<

Women's Empowerment and Contraception: Is there a Link?
Abdullahel Hadi, Samir R. Nath and A.M.R. Chowdhury <

Empowerment of Women in Egypt and Links to the Survival and Health of their Infants
Sunita Kishor <

Women's Autonomy in Rural India: its Dimensions, Determinants and the Influence of Context
Shireen Jejeebhoy<

Incorporating Women's Empowerment in Studies of Reproductive Health: an Example from Zimbabwe (DHS)
Stan Becker <

Women's Influence on Decision-making within Households: Evidence from Ghana
Cheryl R. Doss <

Wife's Empowerment and Fertility in Nigeria: the Role of Context
Mary Kritz, Paulina Makinwa Adebusoye and Douglas T. Gurak <

Economic Restructuring, Women's Survival and Transformation in Mexico
Brigida Garcia<

The growth of Women's Empowerment in Sweden, Experiences, Actors and Arenas
Katarina Lindahl<

Migration and Female Empowerment
Graeme Hugo<

The Position of Women and Demographic Processes in the Countries in Transition
Wanda Nowicka<

Mobilising and Networking: What Works and What Doesn't, and Why?
Barbara Klugman<

Session 5: Moving Beyond Cairo - PUBLIC Policy

The policy Agenda for Women's Empowerment in the Next Decade
Carmen Barroso and Jodi Jacobson<

Making Governments Accountable for Female Empowerment: Preliminary Thoughts on the Contribution of Social Science
Rebecca Cook <

Responses by:
Malin Kaerre, Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Adrienne Germain, International Women's Health Coalition
Gita Sen, Indian Institute of Management<

Summing up by Harriet Presser