Population, Gender and Reproductive Choice: The Motherhood Questions, Directions for Policy

This paper provides a summary of key points to emerge from the thirteen research papers presented at the workshop `Population, gender and reproductive choice: the motherhood questions', held in February 2000. The participants represented a range of disciplines, including demography, economics, history, psychology and sociology, and so focused a wide lens on the issues. Key policy implications of the findings which emerged from discussions at the workshop are included.