Gender in Low and Middle-Income Countries

Marc H. Bornstein, Ph.D., is Senior Investigator and Head of Child and Family Research at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. He has published in experimental, methodological, comparative, developmental, and cultural science as well as neuroscience, pediatrics, and aesthetics.Robert H. Bradley, Ph.D. is Professor and Director of the Family and Human Dynamics Research Institute at Arizona State University. His research focuses on family environments, child care and early education, with emphasis on how each is implicated in children’s development. He is also involved in developing measures of the home environment.Kirby Deater-Deckard, Ph.D., is Professor and Director of Developmental Science in Psychology at Virginia Tech. He conducts research on the intergenerational transmission and development of social-emotional and cognitive attributes, with emphasis on parenting and gene-environment processes.Jennifer E. Lansford, Ph.D., is Research Professor in the Center for Child and Family Policy at Duke University. Her research focuses on the development of aggression and other behavior problems in children and adolescents, with an  mphasis on how family, peer, and cultural contexts contribute to or protect against these outcomes.Diane L. Putnick, Ph.D., is a researcher and statistician with the Child and Family Research Section of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Her research interests include child and family processes across cultures.Kofi Marfo is Professor and Founding Director, Institute for Human Development, Aga Khan University (East Africa, South-Central Asia, and United Kingdom). His scholarly interests include developmental science and practice, advancement of a global science of human development, and philosophical issues in behavioral science and education research. He coleads an African child development research capacity enhancement initiative, co-convenes the African Child Development Scholars Workshop series, and has most recently co-edited Child Development in Africa: Views from inside (Serpell and Marfo, 2014), a volume in New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development.

• GENDER IN LOW- ANDMIDDLE-INCOME  COUNTRIES      CONTENTS   I.  GENDER IN LOW- AND MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES: INTRODUCTIONMarc H. Bornstein, Diane L. Putnick, Robert H. Bradley, Kirby Deater-Deckard, and Jennifer E. Lansford    II.  GENDER IN LOW- AND MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES:GENERAL METHODSMarc H. Bornstein, Diane L. Putnick, Robert H. Bradley, Kirby Deater-Deckard, Jennifer E. Lansford, and Yumiko Ota    III. THE ROLE OF PHYSICAL CAPITAL ASSETS IN YOUNG GIRLS’ AND BOYS’ MORTALITY AND GROWTH IN LOW- AND MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIESRobert H. Bradley and Diane L. Putnick    IV.  MOTHERS’ AND FATHERS’ PARENTING PRACTICES WITH THEIR DAUGHTERS AND SONS IN LOW- AND MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIESMarc H.Bornstein and Diane L. Putnick    V.  DAUGHTERS’ AND SONS’ EXPOSURE TO CHILDREARING DISCIPLINE AND VIOLENCE IN LOW- AND MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIESKirby Deater-Deckard and Jennifer E. Lansford    VI.  GIRLS’ AND BOYS’ LABOR AND HOUSEHOLD CHORES IN LOW- AND MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIESDiane L. Putnick and Marc H. Bornstein    VII.  GENDER IN LOW- AND MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES: REFLECTIONS, LIMITATIONS, DIRECTIONS, AND IMPLICATIONSMarc H. Bornstein, Diane L. Putnick, Kirby Deater-Deckard, Jennifer E. Lansford, and Robert H. Bradley    REFERENCES ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 7      24          33        60          78        104      123          145  171 COMMENTARY   CONTEXT AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF A GLOBAL SCIENCEOF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: A COMMENTARYKofi Marfo  CONTRIBUTORS STATEMENT OF EDITORIAL POLICYSUBJECT  INDEX 172      183  185  187