"This group of studies first appeared in a special issue on African Women in the Development Process of Journal of Development Studies, vol. 17, no. 3."

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Conceptualizing the labor force : the underestimation of women's economic activities / Lourdes Beneria -- Women and agriculture in sub-Sahara Africa : implications for development (an exploratory study) / Judy C. Bryson -- Mobilizing village women : some organizational and management considerations / Nici Nelson -- An analysis of the impact of labour migration on the lives of women in Lesotho / Elizabeth Gordon -- Perspectives in development : the problem of nurses and nursing in Zambia / Ilsa Schuster -- Development policies in Tanzania-some implications for women / Pat Caplan -- Gambian women : unequal partners in rice development projects? / Jennie Dey -- Developing women's cooperatives : an experiment in rural Nigeria / Patricia Ladipo.