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