ABSTRACT
The research studies listed here focus on the impact of women’s education on life in the family. Such studies look at the impact of women’s schooling on marriage patterns, on maternal behavior, on children’s schooling and school achievement and on childhood nutrition and health care. Many of these studies lack a feminist orientation: they ask about women’s roles as wives and mothers in patriarchial families and presume woman’s role as child bearer and child rearer, guardian of her family’s health and nutrition. Few if any studies ask whether education changes power relations within the family.
