A Quantitative Approach for Examining Female Status and Development Interrelationships: With Application to Pre-Beijing Data from the Philippines

This paper addresses an important policy question, which has been taken for granted in most research: Does development enhance or worsen the status of women? The applicability of the Threshold Hypothesis, which posits a non-linear relationship between development and women's status, was tested...

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Main Author: Nimfa B. Ogena
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of the Philippines 2000-12-01
Series:Social Science Diliman
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Online Access:http://journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/socialsciencediliman/article/view/43