Safe Motherhood
Low Morale Found Among South African Nurses
The emigration of trained professionals poses
an ongoing challenge in South Africa. Among nurses, this phenomenon—and the
pressure it places on nurses who remain—may be contributing to a high rate
of maternal mortality in that country. The Population Council’s Frontiers in
Reproductive Health program, in collaboration with the University of
Witwatersrand, conducted a study to learn more about the workloads, morale,
and career plans of maternity nurses in South Africa.
Transitions to Adulthood
Can Livelihoods Training Alter Girls' Lives?
A program providing reproductive health education and livelihoods
skills training to adolescent girls in the slums of Allahabad, India,
has shown that such interventions are acceptable to parents, feasible to
implement, and exert some positive influence on the circumstances of
girls. However, investigators found that narrowly focused,
short-duration programs may fail to make a broad impact on girls’ lives.
The intervention also highlighted the difficulties inherent in fielding
longitudinal surveys in urban slum areas.
Employment and Marriage
Egyptian Working Women's Perceptions of Marriage
Trends in work and
marriage have shifted dramatically in Egypt, particularly since the 1960s.
Women are getting married later than ever and, although work opportunities
have stagnated recently, women are working outside the home more than they
did historically. Learning about the relationship between work and
marriage may be crucial for understanding a number of other phenomena
related to gender roles, including trends in education and childbearing.
Population Council demographer Sajeda Amin collaborated with Cairo-based
researcher Nagah H.
Al-Bassusi to explore how working women in Egypt view
marriage and work.
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