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Gender and Demography: A Fertile Combination

In: Under Development: Gender

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  • Agnès Adjamagbo
  • Thérèse Locoh

Abstract

Demography has a long tradition of sex-specific data gathering. We are all familiar with the age pyramids illustrating men and women on a single chart. Traditionally mortality health and marriage have been measured by sex-specific indicators and rates. The concept of gender is used to identify signs, symbols, standards and practices that define the sexual roles assigned to every individual, and that give structure to inequalities, almost invariably to the advantage of men. The socially and historically constructed relations between men and women (gender relations) permeate every aspect of societies: the economy, family life, political organisation, etc. Each society therefore develops a set of specific standards and beliefs over the course of its history that comes to comprise a “gender system”.

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  • Agnès Adjamagbo & Thérèse Locoh, 2014. "Gender and Demography: A Fertile Combination," Gender, Development and Social Change, in: Christine Verschuur & Isabelle Guérin & Hélène Guétat-Bernard (ed.), Under Development: Gender, chapter 3, pages 61-83, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:gdechp:978-1-137-35682-6_4
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137356826_4
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