Bevindingen in het kader van het 'Household, gender, and age project' van de United Nations University (UNU) over de invloed van sociaal-economische veranderingen in ontwikkelingslanden op o.a. de taken en positie van de vrouw in het gezin. Bevat de volgende bijdragen: The household, gender, and age project / door Eleonora Barbieri Masini: Household and gender in a life-course perspective / door David Kertzer: Women and households in a changing world / door Division for the Advancement of Women, United Nations Office at Vienna: The demographic transition in Colombia / door Carmen Elisa Flórez en Elssy Bonilla: Textile workers in Brazil and Argentina: work and household behaviour by gender and age / door Liliana Acero: Determinants of women's employment in Chile: a life-history approach / door Eugenia Muchnik de Rubinstein, Isabel Vial de Valdés en Lucía Pardo: The impact of macro-events on social structure in Sri Lanka / door Myrtle Perera: The impact of economic development on rural women in China / door All-China Women's Federation: Households and historical change on plantations in Kenya / door Kavetsa Adagala.