This book integrates the role of gender in girls' and women's development across the life span, looking specifically at internal and external vulnerabilities and risks, and the protective or supportive factors that facilitate effective coping, positive growth, strength and resilience. The interaction between physical, psychological, and cultural factors is integrated within each period of development. The book emphasizes how gender socialization of female development and behavior impacts self-evaluation and identity processes within various cultural groups. The authors also discusses the social roles that girls and women reflectively adopt and describe how externally induced risks such as poverty, interpersonal abuse, and violence influence a healthy development.
Themanummer over het combineren van arbeid en zorg door allochtonen. Bevat de volgende bijdragen: verslag van een onderzoek naar de arbeidsparticipatie van allochtone vrouwen: de verschillen in de verdeling van zorgtaken binnen allochtone en autochtone huishoudens: gesprek met een Marokkaans, Surinaams en Turks gezin over de combinatie van arbeid en zorg: rondetafelgesprek over de vraag of het overheidsbeleid om allochtone vrouwen te stimuleren de arbeidsmarkt op te gaan volstaat.