Women's Equality, Demography and Public Policies

Download or read book Women's Equality, Demography and Public Policies written by A. Heitlinger and published by Springer. This book was released on 1993-09-07 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book assesses the comparability between policies promoting women's equality and the reversal of fertility decline. Based on comparative data from Canada, Australia, Britain, and to a more limited extent the USA, Alena Heitlinger examines the impact of major international instruments promoting women's equality, and national similarities and differences in women's policy machinery, provision for maternity and childcare, fiscal assistance for families with children, and the costs and benefits of fertility-related measures vis - vis immigration related measures.