Kinshasa in Transition: Women's Education, Employment, and Fertility Hardcover - 2003
by David Shapiro; B. Oleko Tambashe
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In 1881, the American explorer Henry Morton Stanley, acting on behalf of King Leopold of Belgium, founded what was to become the city of Leopoldville on the banks of the Congo River.
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After decades of tremendous growth, Kinshasa-capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo-is now the second-largest urban area in sub-Saharan Africa. And as the city has grown-from around 300,000 people in the mid-1950s to more than five million today-it has experienced seismic social, economic, and demographic changes. In this book, David Shapiro and B. Oleko Tambashe trace the impact of these changes on the lives of women, and their findings add dramatically to the field's limited knowledge of African demographic trends. They find that fertility has declined significantly in Kinshasa since the 1970s, and that women's increasing access to secondary education has played a key role in this decline. Better access to education has also given women greater access to employment opportunities. And by examining the impact of such factors as economic well-being and household demographic composition on the schooling of children, Shapiro and Tambashe reveal how one generation's fertility affects the next generation's education. This book will be a valuable guide for anyone who wants to understand the complex and ongoing social, demographic, economic, and developmental changes in contemporary sub-Saharan Africa.
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- Title Kinshasa in Transition: Women's Education, Employment, and Fertility
- Author David Shapiro; B. Oleko Tambashe
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 297
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
- Date May 1, 2003
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780226750576 / 0226750574
- Weight 1.17 lbs (0.53 kg)
- Dimensions 9.4 x 6.16 x 0.87 in (23.88 x 15.65 x 2.21 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: African
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Fertility, Human - Congo (Democratic, Women - Education - Congo (Democratic
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002020412
- Dewey Decimal Code 305.409
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