Presidential Elections: Swing States and Bellwethers
(2004) As the 2000 election made clear, the presidential election actually is a series of 51 “winner take all” contests in each state and the District and Columbia.
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A Demographic Portrait of Asian Americans
(2004) The following excerpt is from the report A Demographic Portrait of Asian Americans, by Yu Xie and Kimberly Goyette and published by the Russell Sage Foundation and the Population Reference Bureau.
Gender Inequality at Work
(2004) Women’s increased participation in paid work is a central change in gender relations over the last 50 years. The question is no longer whether the average woman will work or not, but rather when during her life course she will work.
U.S. Growing Bigger, Older, and More Diverse
By asoares
(2004) Within the next few years, the U.S. population — currently estimated at 293 million — is expected to reach twice its 1950 level of 151 million.
Urbanization: An Environmental Force to Be Reckoned With
(2004) Human beings have become an increasingly powerful environmental force over the last 10,000 years. With the advent of agriculture 8,000 years ago, we began to change the land.1
Married as Children, Women With Obstetric Fistulas Have No Future
(2004) Wobete Falaga, who is from a village in the northern Gojam province in Ethiopia’s Amhara region, was only 13 when she became pregnant.
Les indicateurs de santé en Haïti, reflets de ses troubles économiques et politiques
(Janvier 2004) Deux cents ans après sa victoire sur les troupes de Napoléon et l’avènement de son indépendance de la France, Haïti demeure un pays troublé.
Politics and Science in Census Taking
(2003) A census is inevitably a blend of politics and science — politics because power and money are linked to how many people live where, science because the technically complex undertaking draws on many scientific disciplines.
Les programmes de santé de la reproduction ont besoin des hommes
(Novembre 2003) Bien qu’on soit de plus en plus conscient que l’existence d’intérêts conflictuels et d’inégalités entre les hommes et les femmes crée des obstacles considérables à la santé, rares sont les programmes de santé de la reproduction qui tentent de surmonter ces inégalités.
L’Indonésie ploie sous le fardeau de problèmes démographiques, de pressions politiques et de tensions sociales
(2003) Encore sous le coup des répercussions de la crise financière en Asie, l’Indonésie souffre depuis quelques années de nombreuses difficultés, allant des troubles sociaux, de l’instabilité politique, de la violence ethnique et confessionnelle à la diminution de l’accès aux services de santé et autres services publics.