ABSTRACT
The recent awareness and concern with women’s status in different societies has usually focused on macro indicators at the national level and often only on the few indicators included in census data. These macro-level indicators, such as percentage of girls enrolled in school or percentage of women in the labour force, which may not be the most sensitive measures of women’s status, are then used to assess the relationship between status and fertility rates (Mauldin and Berelson, 1978).
