Indicators which illustrate the size, movement, and structure of human populations. Population is defined as the number of people in a given area (such as a country, region or city) to which a specific vital rate applies, that is, the denominator of the crude birth rate or death rate; that...

1. Introduction: the seminar’s central thesis -- 2. Population and the status of women: results of the Bucharest and Mexico conferences -- 3. The measurement of the status of women -- 4. Divorce and the status of women -- 5. Marriage and marriage dissolution and the changing status of women:...