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Education of women and family size in two Micronesian communities
Micronesica • 18 (1) • Published In 1982 • Pages: 1-21
By: Marshall, Leslie B., Marshall, Mac.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is an investigation of the affect of women's education and employment on fertility rates and family size among the Chuuk. The Marshalls examined two communities, one rural and the other suburban. Universal education on Chuuk began in 1947 during the American administrative period. The Marshalls found that most Chuuk women in this period continued to marry and have children, although there is some indication that marital fertility decreased with educational attainment. Also, the proportion of women married in each community was lower among more highly educated persons, those in school, or employed. Differences in marital and fertility rates among women living in the suburban village were not as marked as those found in the rural village. According to the Marshalls one explanation for the lower marital fertility among rural mothers, who seek a higher education, is the lack of alternative childcare provisions and the decision to postpone marriage and family until the completion of one's education.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Birth statistics
- Labor supply and employment
- Conception
- Elementary education
- Liberal arts education
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Chuuk
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1999
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Oceania
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Micronesia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 1997
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1969-1971, 1976
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1976
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Chuuk State, Federated States of Micronesia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Leslie B. Marshall and Mac Marshall
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 20-21)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 80646215
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Trukese (Micronesian people)