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adjustment and mother ndashchild interaction in young divorced and
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social
patterning of womens health in Canada Social Science amp Medicine
2002767-782
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psychological effects of divorce Journal of Divorce 1 233-244
McLanahan Saras (1983) Family Structure and Stress A Longitudinal
Comparison of Two-Parent and Female-Headed Families Journal of
Marriage and the Family v45 n2 p347-57 May 1983
218
McLanahan S (1985) Family structure and the reproduction of poverty
American Journal of Sociology 90 873-901
McLanahan S amp Adams J (1989) The effects of children on adults‟
psychological well-being 1957-1976 Social Forces 68 124-146
McLeod J (1999) A narrative social constructionist approach to therapeutic
empathy Counselling Psychology Quarterly 12(4) 377-394
McLeod Jane and Ronald Kessler (1990) ldquoSocioeconomic status
differences in vulnerability to undesirable life eventsrdquo Journal of
Health and Social Behavior 31(2)162-72
Medeiros Marcelo and Joana Costa (2008) Is There a Feminization of
Poverty in Latin America World Development 36(1) 115ndash127
Meenakshi JV and Ray R( 2002) ldquoImpact of household size and family
composition on poverty in rural Indiardquo Journal of Policy Modeling
Mehta Swarnjit (1990) Migration a Spatial Perspective (a case study of
Bist Boab Punjab)Jaipur Rawat Publication
Mencher Joan and A Okungwu (1993) Female HeadedFemale
Supported Households A Cross Cultural Comparison Boulder
Colorado Westview Press
Menjiacutevar Cecilia and Victor Agadjanian( 2007) ldquoMen‟s Migration and
Women‟s Lives Views from Rural Armenia and Guatemalardquo Social
Science Quarterly 88(5)1243-1262
Michaelson W (1985) From Sun to Sun Daily Obligations and Community
Structure in the Lives of Employed Women and their Families
Totowa NJ Rowman and Allanheld
Min Zhan and Michael Sherraden (2003 ) ldquoAssets Expectations and
Childrens Educational Achievement in Female-Headed Households
Social Service Review vol77 No2 June
219
Moghadam M Valentine(1998) THE ldquoFEMINIZATION OF POVERTYrdquo
AND WOMEN‟S HUMAN RIGHTS Brown Journal of World Affairs
vol 5 no 1 225-48
Moghadam V( 2005) bdquoThe bdquoFeminization of Poverty‟ and Women‟s Human
Rights‟ SHS Papers in Women‟s Studies Gender Research No 2
Gender Equality and Development Section UNESCO
Mukherjee Chandan et al (1999) bdquoCrime Against Women A Preliminary
Statistical and Spatial Analysis of National Crime Records Bureau
Data‟ Presented at the Centre for Development Studies
Thiruvananthapuram
Muller C andKerbow D (1993) Parent involvement in the home school
and community In Schneider B and Coleman J S (eds) Parents
Their Children and Schools Westview Boulder CO pp 13ndash39
Nair Ramachandran K(1998)rdquoUtilistion of foreign Remiitance srdquoThe
Kerala experiencerdquo In Indian Migraation to the Middle EastTrends
Patterns and Socio Economic Impact sedby BA
PrakashRohtakSpellbound Publications PvtLtd
Naomi Hossain and Samiha Huda(1996) bdquoProblems of the Women Headed
Households‟BRAC-ICDDR B Joint Research Project Working Paper
Series no12
National Family Health Survey(2005-06) Ministry of health and Family
elfareGovernment of India International Institute for Population
SciencesDeonarMumbai-400 088
Nichols-Casebolt A amp Krysik J (1997) The economic well-being of
never-and ever-married single mother families A cross-national
comparison Journal of Social Service Review 23 (1) 19-40
Nidhi Kotwal and Bharti Prabhakar(2009) ldquoProblems Faced by Single
Mothersrdquo Journal of Social Sciences 21(3) 197-204
220
Orsquo Lughlin B (1996)rdquoMISSING Men The debate over rural poverty and
women heded households in south Africardquo Paper presented at institute
of Social Studies The Hague
Oxaal Z (1997) ldquoEducation and Poverty A Gender Analysisrdquo Bridge
Development Gender Report 53 Institute of Development Studies
(Brighton England)
Paci P (2002)bdquoGender in Transition‟ Human Development Unit Eastern
Europe and Central Asia Region World Bank
Palloni Alberto Susan De Vos Elizabeth Arias Beth Fussell and
Hantamalala Rafalimanana(1995)ldquoChanges in families and
households in Latin America 1970-1990rdquo(forthcoming)
Panda (1997) Female headship poverty and child welfare rural Orissa
Economic and Political Weekly Vol 32 No 43 (Oct 25-31 1997)
pp WS73-WS82 Panda (2003)rdquo Rights-Based Strategies In The
Prevention Of Domestic Violencerdquo Working Paper 344Centre for
Development Studies ThiruvananthapuramKerala
Parcel T L and E G Menaghan (1994) Parents Jobs and Childrens
Lives New York Aldine De Gruyter
Parthasarthy G (1982) ldquoRural Poverty and Female Heads of Household
Need for Quantitative Analysisrdquo Paper presented at Technical Seminar
on Women‟s Work and Employment New Delhi
Patel V (2004) Gaining Ground on Mental Health Online(2008) Available
online lthttp wwwindiatogethernet2004janwom-mnthlthtmgt
(Accessed 30 November 2008)
Patterson G R (1988) Stress A change agent for family pro- cess In M
Garmezy amp M Rutter (Eds) Stress copinig atnd development in
children (pp 235-263) Baltimore Johns Hopkins
Patterson GR Reid JB amp Dishion TJ (1992) Antisocial boys A
social interactional approach (Vol 4) Eugene OR Castalia
221
Pearlin L I amp Schooler C (1978) The structure oi coping Journal of
Health and Social Behavior 19 2-21
Pearlin L I (1983) Role strains and personal stress In H B Kaplan (Ed)
Psychological stress (pp 3-32) New York Academic Press
Pearlin L I and Johnson J S (1977) Marital status life-strains and
depression American Sociological Review 42 (October)704-715
Pedraza Silvia (1991) ldquoWomen and Migration The Social Consequences
of Genderrdquo Annual Review of Sociology 17303-325
Peggy A Thoits (1995) ldquoStressCopying and social support processWhere
are weWhart NextrdquoJournal of Health And Social Behaviour vol35
Pfiffner L J McBurnett K amp Rathouz P J (2001) Father absence and
familial antisocial characteristics Journal of Abnormal Child
Psychology 29 357ndash 367
Polakow V (1993) Lives on the edge Single mothers and their children in
the other America Chicago University of Chicago Press
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1989) ldquoThe determinants and consequences of female-headed
householdsrdquo Notes from Seminars I II III IV Washington DC
Population Council
Population Reports (2002) Youth and HIVAIDS Can We Avoid
Catastrophe 29 (3) Posel Dorrit R 2001 ldquoWomen Wait Men
Migrate Gender Inequality and Migration Decisions in South Africardquo
Pp 91-117 in Women Farmers Enhancing Rights Recognition and
Productivity edited by Patrick Webb and Katinka Weinberger
Frankfurt am Main Peter Lang
Praveen and Singh (2008)rdquoWomen‟s Empowerment in India Emerging
Perspective and Trends Serials Publications New Delhi
222
Priscilla K Coleman and Katherine Hildebrandt Karraker(2000)
ldquoParenting Self-Efficacy among Mothers of School-Age Children
conceptualizationrdquo Family Relations Vol49issue 1 Pges 13-
27January
Quisumbing Agnes et al (1995) Gender and Poverty New Evidence from
10 Developing Countries International Food Policy Research Institute
Food Consumption and Nutrition Division Discussion Paper No 9
Quisumbing AR L Haddad and C Pena (2001) Are women
overrepresented among the poor An analysis of poverty in 10
developing countries Journal of Development Economics 66 225ndash
269
Radloff L S and Rae D S (1979) Susceptibility and precipitating factors
in depression Journal of Abnormal Psychol-ogy 88 (April)174-181
Raghavan V P (2006)rdquoThekudumbashree Projects In Kerala India ndashA New
Paradigm Of Participatory Economyrdquo presented at the 13 th
Conference of the International Association for the Economics of
Participation On 13-15 July At Mondragon University( Basque
Country Spain
Rajaram Ramaprasad(2009) ldquoFemale-Headed Households and Poverty
Evidence from the National Family Health Surveyrdquo
wwwfrbatlantaorg09-3rd_se international
economics_paper_rajarampdf
Ramanathaiyer S and S Macpherson (2000)Social Development in
Kerala Illusion or Reality Ashgate Publishing Aldershot
Ratusi M and AV Swamy (1999) Explaining Ethnic Differentials in
Credit Market Outcomes in Zimbabwe Economic Development and
Cultural Change 47 585ndash604
Ray R( 2000) ldquoPoverty Household Size and Child Welfare in Indiardquo
Economic and Political Weekly 35 3511-3520
223
Ricardo Barros Louise Fox and Rosane Mendonca (1994) ldquoFemale-
Headed HouseholdsPoverty and the Welfare Of Children in Urban
Brazilrdquo Economic Development and Cultural Change Volume 45
Issue 2 Publisher The World Bank Policy Research Working Paper
Series 1275 Pages 231
Richards L amp Schmiege C (1993) Problems and strengths of single-
parent families Implications for practice and policy Family Relations
42 277-285
Robert T Jensen(2005) ldquoCaste Culture and the Status and Well-Being of
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Rodgers Gerry (2000) ldquoGrowth in western India reduces poverty in Biharrdquo
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Rogers Beatrice Lorge (1995) Alternative Definitions of Female Headship
in the Dominican Republic World Development 23 (12) 2033-2039
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women heded households in south Africardquo Paper presented at institute
of Social Studies The Hague
Oxaal Z (1997) ldquoEducation and Poverty A Gender Analysisrdquo Bridge
Development Gender Report 53 Institute of Development Studies
(Brighton England)
Paci P (2002)bdquoGender in Transition‟ Human Development Unit Eastern
Europe and Central Asia Region World Bank
Palloni Alberto Susan De Vos Elizabeth Arias Beth Fussell and
Hantamalala Rafalimanana(1995)ldquoChanges in families and
households in Latin America 1970-1990rdquo(forthcoming)
Panda (1997) Female headship poverty and child welfare rural Orissa
Economic and Political Weekly Vol 32 No 43 (Oct 25-31 1997)
pp WS73-WS82 Panda (2003)rdquo Rights-Based Strategies In The
Prevention Of Domestic Violencerdquo Working Paper 344Centre for
Development Studies ThiruvananthapuramKerala
Parcel T L and E G Menaghan (1994) Parents Jobs and Childrens
Lives New York Aldine De Gruyter
Parthasarthy G (1982) ldquoRural Poverty and Female Heads of Household
Need for Quantitative Analysisrdquo Paper presented at Technical Seminar
on Women‟s Work and Employment New Delhi
Patel V (2004) Gaining Ground on Mental Health Online(2008) Available
online lthttp wwwindiatogethernet2004janwom-mnthlthtmgt
(Accessed 30 November 2008)
Patterson G R (1988) Stress A change agent for family pro- cess In M
Garmezy amp M Rutter (Eds) Stress copinig atnd development in
children (pp 235-263) Baltimore Johns Hopkins
Patterson GR Reid JB amp Dishion TJ (1992) Antisocial boys A
social interactional approach (Vol 4) Eugene OR Castalia
221
Pearlin L I amp Schooler C (1978) The structure oi coping Journal of
Health and Social Behavior 19 2-21
Pearlin L I (1983) Role strains and personal stress In H B Kaplan (Ed)
Psychological stress (pp 3-32) New York Academic Press
Pearlin L I and Johnson J S (1977) Marital status life-strains and
depression American Sociological Review 42 (October)704-715
Pedraza Silvia (1991) ldquoWomen and Migration The Social Consequences
of Genderrdquo Annual Review of Sociology 17303-325
Peggy A Thoits (1995) ldquoStressCopying and social support processWhere
are weWhart NextrdquoJournal of Health And Social Behaviour vol35
Pfiffner L J McBurnett K amp Rathouz P J (2001) Father absence and
familial antisocial characteristics Journal of Abnormal Child
Psychology 29 357ndash 367
Polakow V (1993) Lives on the edge Single mothers and their children in
the other America Chicago University of Chicago Press
Population CouncilInternational Center for Research on Women (1988-
1989) ldquoThe determinants and consequences of female-headed
householdsrdquo Notes from Seminars I II III IV Washington DC
Population Council
Population Reports (2002) Youth and HIVAIDS Can We Avoid
Catastrophe 29 (3) Posel Dorrit R 2001 ldquoWomen Wait Men
Migrate Gender Inequality and Migration Decisions in South Africardquo
Pp 91-117 in Women Farmers Enhancing Rights Recognition and
Productivity edited by Patrick Webb and Katinka Weinberger
Frankfurt am Main Peter Lang
Praveen and Singh (2008)rdquoWomen‟s Empowerment in India Emerging
Perspective and Trends Serials Publications New Delhi
222
Priscilla K Coleman and Katherine Hildebrandt Karraker(2000)
ldquoParenting Self-Efficacy among Mothers of School-Age Children
conceptualizationrdquo Family Relations Vol49issue 1 Pges 13-
27January
Quisumbing Agnes et al (1995) Gender and Poverty New Evidence from
10 Developing Countries International Food Policy Research Institute
Food Consumption and Nutrition Division Discussion Paper No 9
Quisumbing AR L Haddad and C Pena (2001) Are women
overrepresented among the poor An analysis of poverty in 10
developing countries Journal of Development Economics 66 225ndash
269
Radloff L S and Rae D S (1979) Susceptibility and precipitating factors
in depression Journal of Abnormal Psychol-ogy 88 (April)174-181
Raghavan V P (2006)rdquoThekudumbashree Projects In Kerala India ndashA New
Paradigm Of Participatory Economyrdquo presented at the 13 th
Conference of the International Association for the Economics of
Participation On 13-15 July At Mondragon University( Basque
Country Spain
Rajaram Ramaprasad(2009) ldquoFemale-Headed Households and Poverty
Evidence from the National Family Health Surveyrdquo
wwwfrbatlantaorg09-3rd_se international
economics_paper_rajarampdf
Ramanathaiyer S and S Macpherson (2000)Social Development in
Kerala Illusion or Reality Ashgate Publishing Aldershot
Ratusi M and AV Swamy (1999) Explaining Ethnic Differentials in
Credit Market Outcomes in Zimbabwe Economic Development and
Cultural Change 47 585ndash604
Ray R( 2000) ldquoPoverty Household Size and Child Welfare in Indiardquo
Economic and Political Weekly 35 3511-3520
223
Ricardo Barros Louise Fox and Rosane Mendonca (1994) ldquoFemale-
Headed HouseholdsPoverty and the Welfare Of Children in Urban
Brazilrdquo Economic Development and Cultural Change Volume 45
Issue 2 Publisher The World Bank Policy Research Working Paper
Series 1275 Pages 231
Richards L amp Schmiege C (1993) Problems and strengths of single-
parent families Implications for practice and policy Family Relations
42 277-285
Robert T Jensen(2005) ldquoCaste Culture and the Status and Well-Being of
Widows in India ISBN 0-226-90286-2 URL
httpwwwnberorgbookswise05-1 University of Chicago Press
Rodgers Gerry (2000) ldquoGrowth in western India reduces poverty in Biharrdquo
E-seminar on Poverty Available on httpwwwbihartimescom
Rogers Beatrice Lorge (1995) Alternative Definitions of Female Headship
in the Dominican Republic World Development 23 (12) 2033-2039
Ronald L Simons Kuel-HsiulinLeslie C GordonGene H BrodyVelma
Murry and Rand D Conge (2002) ldquoCommunity Differences in the
Association Between parenting Practices and Child Conduct
Problemsrdquo Journal of Marriage and Family Vol 64 No 2 May
Rosenhouse Sandra (1989) Identifying the Poor Is bdquoHeadship‟ a Useful
Concept World Bank Living Standard Measurement Study Working
Paper No 58
Ross C E J Mirkowski and K Goldsteen (1990) ldquoThe Impact of the
Family on Health The Decade in Reviewrdquo Journal of Marriage and
the Family 52 1059-1078
Roy Archana K and Parveen Nangia (2005) ldquoReproductive Health Status
of Wives Left Behind by Male Out-migrants A Study of Rural Bihar
Indiardquo Pp209-241 in S Jatrana M Toyota and BYeoh (eds)
Migration and Health in Asia London Routledge
224
Rukmalie Jayakody and Dawn Stauffer(2000) ldquoMental Health Problems
Among Single Mothers Implications for Work and Welfare Reformrdquo
Journal of Social Issues vol56 issue4 paged 617-634
Russell SS (1997) International migration implications for the World
Bank in Working Paper Human Capital Development and
Operations Policy (Washington DC World Bank)
SakhiUNIFEM (2002) Support Services to Counter Violence Against
Women in Kerala A Resource Directory Thiruvananthapuram
Kerala SB Press
Sandefur Gary D Sara McLanahan and Roger A Wojtkiewicz (1992)
ldquoThe Effects of Parental Marital Status during Adolescence on High
School Graduationrdquo Social Forces 71(1) 103-121
Sanni L (2006) Comparative Study Of Female-Headed Households In The
City Of Ibadan Jenda A Journal Of Culture And African Women
Studies 2 (8)
Saradamoni K (2001) bdquoKerala Women Less Than Equals‟ Samyukta 12
pp12-21
Sarah Beth Estes (2004) ldquo How Are Family-Responsive Workplace
Arrangements Family Friendly Employer Accommodations
Parenting and Childrens Socioemotional Well-Beingrdquo The
Sociological Quarterly Vol 45 No 4 (Autumn) pp 637-661
Sarah K Spillman Lorenz F Wickramma (2006) Divorce leads to poor
psychological and Physical Health in Women Institute for Social and
Behaviour Research Retrieved March 19 2007 from htpp
wwwsearch mothercom
Sarah O Meadows Sara S Mclanahan and Jeanne Brooks (2007)
ldquoParental Depression and Anxiety and Early Childhood Behavior
Problems Across Family Types Journal of Marriage and Family 69
December 1162ndash1177
225
SarahJ Schoppe-SullivanAlice C Schermerhorn and E Mark Cummings
(2007) Marital Conflict and Children‟s Adjustment Evaluation of the
Parenting Process Modelrdquo Journal of Marriage and Family Volume
69 Issue 5 Pages 1118-1134
Schultz T Paul( 2001) ldquoWomen‟s Role in the Agricultural Household
Bargaining and Human Capital Investmentsrdquo Agricultural and
Resource Economics Handbook Vol No1
SekharTV (1993 ) ldquoMigration selectively from rural areas Evidence from
KeralardquoDemograhy Inidia22(2)
Senada Smajic and Sergio Ermacora (2007)rdquo Poverty amongst female-
headed households in Bosnia and Herzegovina An empirical analysisrdquo
South East European Journal of Economics and Business vol2 issue 1
pages69-88
Shanthi K (1994) Growing Incidence of Female Household Headship
Causes and Cure Social Action (New Delhi) 44 17-33
Sharmishtha Basu and Shiv (2008) in their study on ldquoWork Status and
Health of Women A Comparative Study of Northern and Southern
States of Rural IndiardquoWorld Health and population 10(2)
Shaw S (1991) The conflicting experiences of lone parent-hood In M
Hardey amp G Crow (Eds) Lone parenthood (p 143-155) Toronto
University of Toronto Press
Sheryl L Olson and Victoria Banyard (1993) Stop the World So I Can
Get off for a While Sources of Daily Stress in the Lives of Low-
Income Single Mothers of Young Childrenrdquo Journal of Family
Relations v42 n1 January
ShinjuV (2006)rdquoWomen Headed Households A study of the socio
economic status and survival strategiesrdquo Thesis submitted by
University of Kerala foe the degree of Doctor of philosophy
226
Short Kathleen and Thesia I Garner (2002) Experimental Poverty
Measures Un- der Alternate Treatments of Medical Out-of-Pocket
Expenditure An Application of the Consumer Expenditure Survey
Working Paper No 358 US Bureau of Labor Statistics
Shubhashis Gangopadhyay And Wilima Wadhw (2003) bdquoAre Indian
Female-Headed Households Morevulnerable To Poverty India
Development Foundation November 2003
ShylajaL (2002) ldquoLabour Emigration And Its Socio Economic And
Demographic Impact In Keralardquo Thesis submitted to the University of
Kerala for the award of the Degree of Doctor of philosophy
Sigle-Rushton Wendy and Sara McLanahan (2002) For Richer or
Poorer Marriage as Poverty Alleviation in the United States
Population 57(3) 509-528
Simmons AB (1984) Migration and rural development conceptual
approaches research findings and policy issues in Population
Distribution Migration and Development Proceedings of the Expert
Group on Population Distribution Migration and Development (New
York United Nations)
Simon and Appleton (1996) Women-Headed Households and Household
Welfare An Empirical Deconstruction for Ugandardquo journal World
Development Vol24 issue12 Pages (1811-1827)
Simon RW (1995) ldquoGender Multiple Roles Role Meanings and Mental
Healthrdquo Journal of Health and Social Behavior 36 182-94
Simons PCM HAJ Versteegh A W Jongbloed P AKemme P
Slump K D Bos MGE Wolters R F Beudekerand G J
Verschoor (1990) Improvement of phosphorus availability by
microbial phytase in broilers and pigs Br J Nutr 64525ndash540
Simons R L Johnson C Conger R D amp Elder G Jr (1998) A test
of latent trait versus life-course perspec- tives on the stability of
adolescent antisocial behavior Criminology 36 217-242
227
Singh ML (1997) Emigration from Nepal Some Major issues ldquoNepal
Population and Development JournalJul37-47
Singh Indu B (2000) ldquoBihar Yet to Reap the Bonus of Her Backwardnessrdquo
E-Seminar on Poverty in Bihar wwwbihartimescom
Smith Ken R and Cathleen DZick (1986) ldquoThe Incidence of Poverty
Among the Recently Widowhood Mediating Factors in the Life
Courserdquo Journal of Marriage and the Family 48619-30
Standing Guy (1999a)rdquoGlobal Feminization through Flexible Labor a
Theme Re- visited World Development 27503-602
Stegelin DAampFrankel J (1993) Families of lower-income employed
mothers In J Frankel (Ed) The employed mother and the family
context (pp 115-131) New York Springer Publishing Company
Storey D J (2004) Racial and Gender Discrimination in the Micro Firms
Credit Market Evidence from Trinidad and Tobago Small Business
Economics 23(5) 401ndash22
Suchet M amp Barling J (1986) Employed mothers Interrole conflict
spouse support and marital functioning Journal of Occupational
Behaviour 7 167- 178
Sumit Mazumdar and M Guruswamyin (2006) ldquoFemale Labour Force
Participation in Kerala Problems and Prospects [Unpublished] 2006
Presented at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of
America Los Angeles California March 30 - April 1 2006 26 p
Sunny (2006) Problems of Single women in KeralardquoSponsored byNational
Commission for Women Govt of India
Suresh kumar and Lini (2010) ldquoNutritional status of women in kerlaa
comprehensive study of male and female headed householdsrdquo Journal
of Human Development Volume 2No1 June
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in the Dominican Republic World Development 23 (12) 2033-2039
Ronald L Simons Kuel-HsiulinLeslie C GordonGene H BrodyVelma
Murry and Rand D Conge (2002) ldquoCommunity Differences in the
Association Between parenting Practices and Child Conduct
Problemsrdquo Journal of Marriage and Family Vol 64 No 2 May
Rosenhouse Sandra (1989) Identifying the Poor Is bdquoHeadship‟ a Useful
Concept World Bank Living Standard Measurement Study Working
Paper No 58
Ross C E J Mirkowski and K Goldsteen (1990) ldquoThe Impact of the
Family on Health The Decade in Reviewrdquo Journal of Marriage and
the Family 52 1059-1078
Roy Archana K and Parveen Nangia (2005) ldquoReproductive Health Status
of Wives Left Behind by Male Out-migrants A Study of Rural Bihar
Indiardquo Pp209-241 in S Jatrana M Toyota and BYeoh (eds)
Migration and Health in Asia London Routledge
224
Rukmalie Jayakody and Dawn Stauffer(2000) ldquoMental Health Problems
Among Single Mothers Implications for Work and Welfare Reformrdquo
Journal of Social Issues vol56 issue4 paged 617-634
Russell SS (1997) International migration implications for the World
Bank in Working Paper Human Capital Development and
Operations Policy (Washington DC World Bank)
SakhiUNIFEM (2002) Support Services to Counter Violence Against
Women in Kerala A Resource Directory Thiruvananthapuram
Kerala SB Press
Sandefur Gary D Sara McLanahan and Roger A Wojtkiewicz (1992)
ldquoThe Effects of Parental Marital Status during Adolescence on High
School Graduationrdquo Social Forces 71(1) 103-121
Sanni L (2006) Comparative Study Of Female-Headed Households In The
City Of Ibadan Jenda A Journal Of Culture And African Women
Studies 2 (8)
Saradamoni K (2001) bdquoKerala Women Less Than Equals‟ Samyukta 12
pp12-21
Sarah Beth Estes (2004) ldquo How Are Family-Responsive Workplace
Arrangements Family Friendly Employer Accommodations
Parenting and Childrens Socioemotional Well-Beingrdquo The
Sociological Quarterly Vol 45 No 4 (Autumn) pp 637-661
Sarah K Spillman Lorenz F Wickramma (2006) Divorce leads to poor
psychological and Physical Health in Women Institute for Social and
Behaviour Research Retrieved March 19 2007 from htpp
wwwsearch mothercom
Sarah O Meadows Sara S Mclanahan and Jeanne Brooks (2007)
ldquoParental Depression and Anxiety and Early Childhood Behavior
Problems Across Family Types Journal of Marriage and Family 69
December 1162ndash1177
225
SarahJ Schoppe-SullivanAlice C Schermerhorn and E Mark Cummings
(2007) Marital Conflict and Children‟s Adjustment Evaluation of the
Parenting Process Modelrdquo Journal of Marriage and Family Volume
69 Issue 5 Pages 1118-1134
Schultz T Paul( 2001) ldquoWomen‟s Role in the Agricultural Household
Bargaining and Human Capital Investmentsrdquo Agricultural and
Resource Economics Handbook Vol No1
SekharTV (1993 ) ldquoMigration selectively from rural areas Evidence from
KeralardquoDemograhy Inidia22(2)
Senada Smajic and Sergio Ermacora (2007)rdquo Poverty amongst female-
headed households in Bosnia and Herzegovina An empirical analysisrdquo
South East European Journal of Economics and Business vol2 issue 1
pages69-88
Shanthi K (1994) Growing Incidence of Female Household Headship
Causes and Cure Social Action (New Delhi) 44 17-33
Sharmishtha Basu and Shiv (2008) in their study on ldquoWork Status and
Health of Women A Comparative Study of Northern and Southern
States of Rural IndiardquoWorld Health and population 10(2)
Shaw S (1991) The conflicting experiences of lone parent-hood In M
Hardey amp G Crow (Eds) Lone parenthood (p 143-155) Toronto
University of Toronto Press
Sheryl L Olson and Victoria Banyard (1993) Stop the World So I Can
Get off for a While Sources of Daily Stress in the Lives of Low-
Income Single Mothers of Young Childrenrdquo Journal of Family
Relations v42 n1 January
ShinjuV (2006)rdquoWomen Headed Households A study of the socio
economic status and survival strategiesrdquo Thesis submitted by
University of Kerala foe the degree of Doctor of philosophy
226
Short Kathleen and Thesia I Garner (2002) Experimental Poverty
Measures Un- der Alternate Treatments of Medical Out-of-Pocket
Expenditure An Application of the Consumer Expenditure Survey
Working Paper No 358 US Bureau of Labor Statistics
Shubhashis Gangopadhyay And Wilima Wadhw (2003) bdquoAre Indian
Female-Headed Households Morevulnerable To Poverty India
Development Foundation November 2003
ShylajaL (2002) ldquoLabour Emigration And Its Socio Economic And
Demographic Impact In Keralardquo Thesis submitted to the University of
Kerala for the award of the Degree of Doctor of philosophy
Sigle-Rushton Wendy and Sara McLanahan (2002) For Richer or
Poorer Marriage as Poverty Alleviation in the United States
Population 57(3) 509-528
Simmons AB (1984) Migration and rural development conceptual
approaches research findings and policy issues in Population
Distribution Migration and Development Proceedings of the Expert
Group on Population Distribution Migration and Development (New
York United Nations)
Simon and Appleton (1996) Women-Headed Households and Household
Welfare An Empirical Deconstruction for Ugandardquo journal World
Development Vol24 issue12 Pages (1811-1827)
Simon RW (1995) ldquoGender Multiple Roles Role Meanings and Mental
Healthrdquo Journal of Health and Social Behavior 36 182-94
Simons PCM HAJ Versteegh A W Jongbloed P AKemme P
Slump K D Bos MGE Wolters R F Beudekerand G J
Verschoor (1990) Improvement of phosphorus availability by
microbial phytase in broilers and pigs Br J Nutr 64525ndash540
Simons R L Johnson C Conger R D amp Elder G Jr (1998) A test
of latent trait versus life-course perspec- tives on the stability of
adolescent antisocial behavior Criminology 36 217-242
227
Singh ML (1997) Emigration from Nepal Some Major issues ldquoNepal
Population and Development JournalJul37-47
Singh Indu B (2000) ldquoBihar Yet to Reap the Bonus of Her Backwardnessrdquo
E-Seminar on Poverty in Bihar wwwbihartimescom
Smith Ken R and Cathleen DZick (1986) ldquoThe Incidence of Poverty
Among the Recently Widowhood Mediating Factors in the Life
Courserdquo Journal of Marriage and the Family 48619-30
Standing Guy (1999a)rdquoGlobal Feminization through Flexible Labor a
Theme Re- visited World Development 27503-602
Stegelin DAampFrankel J (1993) Families of lower-income employed
mothers In J Frankel (Ed) The employed mother and the family
context (pp 115-131) New York Springer Publishing Company
Storey D J (2004) Racial and Gender Discrimination in the Micro Firms
Credit Market Evidence from Trinidad and Tobago Small Business
Economics 23(5) 401ndash22
Suchet M amp Barling J (1986) Employed mothers Interrole conflict
spouse support and marital functioning Journal of Occupational
Behaviour 7 167- 178
Sumit Mazumdar and M Guruswamyin (2006) ldquoFemale Labour Force
Participation in Kerala Problems and Prospects [Unpublished] 2006
Presented at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of
America Los Angeles California March 30 - April 1 2006 26 p
Sunny (2006) Problems of Single women in KeralardquoSponsored byNational
Commission for Women Govt of India
Suresh kumar and Lini (2010) ldquoNutritional status of women in kerlaa
comprehensive study of male and female headed householdsrdquo Journal
of Human Development Volume 2No1 June
Swarup H and Rajput P (1994) ldquoWomen and Globalization reflections
options and Strategiesrdquo Ashok Publications New Delhi
228
Tanzima Zohra Habib (2010) bdquoSocio-Psychological Status of Female Heads
of Households in Rajshahi City Bangladesh‟ Journal of Anthropology
vol 6 n 2
Taylor Matthew J Michelle J Moran-Taylor and Debra Rodman Ruiz
( 2006) ldquoLand Ethnic and Gender Change Transnational Migration
and its Effect on Guatemalan Lives and Landscapes Geoforum 3741-
61
The ILO Thesaurus (2005) Retrieved September 16 2009International
Labour organization (ILO) Web Site
httpwwwiloorgpubliclibdocILO-Thesaurus english tr3578htm
The World Bank (2001) Engendering Development - Through Gender
Equality in Rights Resources and Voice World Bank Washington
DC
Thoits A Peggy (1995) ldquoStress Coping and Social Support Processes
Where Are We What NextrdquoJournal of Health and Social Behavior
Vol 35 Extra Issue Forty Years of Medical Sociology The State of
the Art and Directions for the Future pp 53- 79
Thomson Elizabeth Thomas L Hanson and Sara S McLanahan
(1994) ldquoFamily Structure and ChildWell-Being Economic Resources
Vs Parental Behaviorsrdquo SocialForces 73221-242
Timothy J Biblarz and Greg Gottainer (2000)rdquo Family Structure and
Childrens Success A Comparison of Widowed and Divorced Single-
Mother Familiesrdquo Journal of Marriage and the Family Vol 62 No 2
(May 2000) pp 533-548 Published by National Council on Family
Relations Stable
Tinker Irene ed (1990) Persistent Inequalities Women and World
Development New York Oxford University Press
Turner A Heather (2006 ) ldquoStress Social Resources and Depression among
Never-Married and Divorced Rural Mothersrdquo Rural Sociology
Volume71issue3Pages479-504September
229
Turner R J Lloyd D A amp Roszell P (1999) Personal resources and the
social distribution of depression American Journal of Community
Psychology 27 643ndash672
US Bureau of the Census (2001) People and families in poverty by
selected characteristics 1999 and 2000 Retrieved on February 4
2002 from
httpwwwcensusgovhhespovertypoverty00tables00html
UNDP (2001) Human Dvelopment Report2001 Making New Technologies
work for human development ldquo New York Oxford University Press
Unisa Sayeed and Datta Nitin (2005)rdquo Female Headship In India Levels
Differentials And Impactrdquo iussp2005princetonedu downloadaspx
submission Id=50705
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia
(UNESCWA) (1995b) Women and Poverty in the ESCWA Region
Issues and Concerns Study prepared by C Fawzi El-Solh New York
United Nations (1995) The Worlds Women 1995 Trends and Statistics
New York United Nations
United NationsDepartment for Economic and Social Information
(UNDESI) (1991) The World‟s Women 1970-1990 Trends and
Statistics Department for Economic and Social Information Social
Statistics and Indicators Series K no 8 New York
United NationsDepartment for Economic and Social Information
(UNDESI) (1997) Handbook for Producing National Statistics
Reports on Women and Men Statistics Division New York
United Nations (2005) The Millennium Development Goals Report 2005
New YorkUnited Nations
Van Meter M J amp Agronow S J (1982) The stress of multiple roles
The case for role strain among married college women Family
Relations 31 131- 138
230
Vardhan Ranjay (1999)Female Headed households in Patriarchal
SocietyIndian Publishers‟ Distributors156-DKamala Nagar Delhi-
110 007
Varghese Sheela (1990) ldquo Female-Supported Householdsrdquo Economic and
Political Weekly Vol 31 No 22 Jun 1 p 1290
Varley A (1996) ldquoWomen Heading Households Some More Equal Than
Otherrdquo World Development 24(3) 505-520
Villarreal Andreacutes and Heeju Shin ( 2008) Unraveling the Economic
Paradox of Female-Headed Households in Mexico The Role of Family
Networks Sociological Quarterly 49(3) 565ndash595
Visaria P and Visaria L (1985) ldquoIndian Households with Female Heads
Their Incidence Characteristics and Levels of Livingrdquo in Jain D and
Banerjee N (ed) Tyranny of the Household New Delhi Shakti Books
Vonnie C McLoyd Toby Epstein Jayaratne Rosario Ceballo Julio
Borquez (1994)rdquo Unemployment and Work Interruption among
African American Single Mothers Effects on Parenting and
Adolescent Socio emotional Functioningrdquo Child Development Vol
65 No 2 Children and Poverty) pp 562-589
Vu Manh Loi (1996) Female- Headed Households in Vietnam Working
Paper No 96-11 Seattle WA University of Washington Seattle
Population Research Center
World Bank (2007) Global Monitoring Report Millennium Development
Goals Confronting the Challenges of Gender Equality and Fragile
States World Bank Washington DC
Waldron I Weiss CC and Hughes ME(1998) ldquoInteracting effects of
multiple roles on womens healthrdquoJournal of Health Social behaviour
Sep39(3)216-36
231
Wallerstein J S amp Kelly J (1980) Surviving the breakup How children
and parents cope with divorce New York Basic Books
WaltersV P Mcdonoughand L Strohschein (2002) ldquoChronic stress and
the social patterning of womens health in Canada social sciences and
medicine Mar54(5)767-82
Warren J A amp Johnson P J (1995) The impact of workplace support on
work-family role strain Family Relations 44 163-169
Weissman MM Leaf PJ amp Bruce ML (1987) Single parent women
SocialPsychiatry 22 29-36
Wheaton Blair ( 1994) ldquoSampling the Stress Universerdquo Pp 77ndash114 in
Stress and Mental Health Contemporary Issues and Prospects for the
Future edited by W Avison and I Gotlib New York Plenum
White L K A Booth and JN Edwards (1986) ldquoChildren and Marital
Happiness Why the Negative Correlationrdquo Journal of Family Issues 7
131-147
Wijnberg M H amp Reding K M (1999) Reclaiming a stress focus the
hassles of rural poor single mothers Families in Society 80(5) 506ndash
515
Willicox S (2003) ldquoThe Effect of Widowhood on Physical and Mental
Healthrdquo Health Behaviour and Health Outcome 22(5) 513-522
Wojtkiewicz RA SS McLanahan and I Garfinkel (1990) The
Growth of Families Headed by Women 1950-1980 Demo- graphy
2719-30
World Bank (2001a) World Bank Policy Research Report 2001
Engendering Development Through Gender Equality in Rights
Resources and Voice Oxford University Press New York
232
World Bank (2007) Global Monitoring Report Millennium Development
Goals Confronting the Challenges of Gender Equality and Fragile
States World Bank Washington DC
Zachariah Mathew and Irudaya Rajan (2007) ldquoMigrationRemittances
And Employment Short-term Trends and Longterm
ImplicationsrdquoDecember Centre for Develoment Studies
WP395ThiruvananathapuramKerala
Zachariah KC ET Mathew and Irudaya Rajan S (1999)rdquoKerala
Migrants in India and Abroad Working Paper 1CDS Studies on
International Migration from Keral state in Indiaed by Zachariah etal
Centre for Develoment Studies Thiruvananathapuram Kerala
Zachariah KC Mathew ET Rajan S I (2001) Social economic and
demographic consequences of migration on Kerala International
Migration 2001 39(2)43ndash67
Zahoor Hussain Javed and Ayesha Asif (2011) Female households and
poverty A case study of Faisalabad District International Journal of
Peace and Development Studies Vol 2(2) pp 37-44 February 2011
Zheng Wu Feng Hou and Christoph M Schimmele (2008) ldquoFamily
Structure and Children‟s Psychosocial Outcomesrdquo Journal of Family
Issues Volume 29 Number 12 December
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Pearlin L I (1983) Role strains and personal stress In H B Kaplan (Ed)
Psychological stress (pp 3-32) New York Academic Press
Pearlin L I and Johnson J S (1977) Marital status life-strains and
depression American Sociological Review 42 (October)704-715
Pedraza Silvia (1991) ldquoWomen and Migration The Social Consequences
of Genderrdquo Annual Review of Sociology 17303-325
Peggy A Thoits (1995) ldquoStressCopying and social support processWhere
are weWhart NextrdquoJournal of Health And Social Behaviour vol35
Pfiffner L J McBurnett K amp Rathouz P J (2001) Father absence and
familial antisocial characteristics Journal of Abnormal Child
Psychology 29 357ndash 367
Polakow V (1993) Lives on the edge Single mothers and their children in
the other America Chicago University of Chicago Press
Population CouncilInternational Center for Research on Women (1988-
1989) ldquoThe determinants and consequences of female-headed
householdsrdquo Notes from Seminars I II III IV Washington DC
Population Council
Population Reports (2002) Youth and HIVAIDS Can We Avoid
Catastrophe 29 (3) Posel Dorrit R 2001 ldquoWomen Wait Men
Migrate Gender Inequality and Migration Decisions in South Africardquo
Pp 91-117 in Women Farmers Enhancing Rights Recognition and
Productivity edited by Patrick Webb and Katinka Weinberger
Frankfurt am Main Peter Lang
Praveen and Singh (2008)rdquoWomen‟s Empowerment in India Emerging
Perspective and Trends Serials Publications New Delhi
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Priscilla K Coleman and Katherine Hildebrandt Karraker(2000)
ldquoParenting Self-Efficacy among Mothers of School-Age Children
conceptualizationrdquo Family Relations Vol49issue 1 Pges 13-
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Among the Recently Widowhood Mediating Factors in the Life
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Commission for Women Govt of India
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comprehensive study of male and female headed householdsrdquo Journal
of Human Development Volume 2No1 June
Swarup H and Rajput P (1994) ldquoWomen and Globalization reflections
options and Strategiesrdquo Ashok Publications New Delhi
228
Tanzima Zohra Habib (2010) bdquoSocio-Psychological Status of Female Heads
of Households in Rajshahi City Bangladesh‟ Journal of Anthropology
vol 6 n 2
Taylor Matthew J Michelle J Moran-Taylor and Debra Rodman Ruiz
( 2006) ldquoLand Ethnic and Gender Change Transnational Migration
and its Effect on Guatemalan Lives and Landscapes Geoforum 3741-
61
The ILO Thesaurus (2005) Retrieved September 16 2009International
Labour organization (ILO) Web Site
httpwwwiloorgpubliclibdocILO-Thesaurus english tr3578htm
The World Bank (2001) Engendering Development - Through Gender
Equality in Rights Resources and Voice World Bank Washington
DC
Thoits A Peggy (1995) ldquoStress Coping and Social Support Processes
Where Are We What NextrdquoJournal of Health and Social Behavior
Vol 35 Extra Issue Forty Years of Medical Sociology The State of
the Art and Directions for the Future pp 53- 79
Thomson Elizabeth Thomas L Hanson and Sara S McLanahan
(1994) ldquoFamily Structure and ChildWell-Being Economic Resources
Vs Parental Behaviorsrdquo SocialForces 73221-242
Timothy J Biblarz and Greg Gottainer (2000)rdquo Family Structure and
Childrens Success A Comparison of Widowed and Divorced Single-
Mother Familiesrdquo Journal of Marriage and the Family Vol 62 No 2
(May 2000) pp 533-548 Published by National Council on Family
Relations Stable
Tinker Irene ed (1990) Persistent Inequalities Women and World
Development New York Oxford University Press
Turner A Heather (2006 ) ldquoStress Social Resources and Depression among
Never-Married and Divorced Rural Mothersrdquo Rural Sociology
Volume71issue3Pages479-504September
229
Turner R J Lloyd D A amp Roszell P (1999) Personal resources and the
social distribution of depression American Journal of Community
Psychology 27 643ndash672
US Bureau of the Census (2001) People and families in poverty by
selected characteristics 1999 and 2000 Retrieved on February 4
2002 from
httpwwwcensusgovhhespovertypoverty00tables00html
UNDP (2001) Human Dvelopment Report2001 Making New Technologies
work for human development ldquo New York Oxford University Press
Unisa Sayeed and Datta Nitin (2005)rdquo Female Headship In India Levels
Differentials And Impactrdquo iussp2005princetonedu downloadaspx
submission Id=50705
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia
(UNESCWA) (1995b) Women and Poverty in the ESCWA Region
Issues and Concerns Study prepared by C Fawzi El-Solh New York
United Nations (1995) The Worlds Women 1995 Trends and Statistics
New York United Nations
United NationsDepartment for Economic and Social Information
(UNDESI) (1991) The World‟s Women 1970-1990 Trends and
Statistics Department for Economic and Social Information Social
Statistics and Indicators Series K no 8 New York
United NationsDepartment for Economic and Social Information
(UNDESI) (1997) Handbook for Producing National Statistics
Reports on Women and Men Statistics Division New York
United Nations (2005) The Millennium Development Goals Report 2005
New YorkUnited Nations
Van Meter M J amp Agronow S J (1982) The stress of multiple roles
The case for role strain among married college women Family
Relations 31 131- 138
230
Vardhan Ranjay (1999)Female Headed households in Patriarchal
SocietyIndian Publishers‟ Distributors156-DKamala Nagar Delhi-
110 007
Varghese Sheela (1990) ldquo Female-Supported Householdsrdquo Economic and
Political Weekly Vol 31 No 22 Jun 1 p 1290
Varley A (1996) ldquoWomen Heading Households Some More Equal Than
Otherrdquo World Development 24(3) 505-520
Villarreal Andreacutes and Heeju Shin ( 2008) Unraveling the Economic
Paradox of Female-Headed Households in Mexico The Role of Family
Networks Sociological Quarterly 49(3) 565ndash595
Visaria P and Visaria L (1985) ldquoIndian Households with Female Heads
Their Incidence Characteristics and Levels of Livingrdquo in Jain D and
Banerjee N (ed) Tyranny of the Household New Delhi Shakti Books
Vonnie C McLoyd Toby Epstein Jayaratne Rosario Ceballo Julio
Borquez (1994)rdquo Unemployment and Work Interruption among
African American Single Mothers Effects on Parenting and
Adolescent Socio emotional Functioningrdquo Child Development Vol
65 No 2 Children and Poverty) pp 562-589
Vu Manh Loi (1996) Female- Headed Households in Vietnam Working
Paper No 96-11 Seattle WA University of Washington Seattle
Population Research Center
World Bank (2007) Global Monitoring Report Millennium Development
Goals Confronting the Challenges of Gender Equality and Fragile
States World Bank Washington DC
Waldron I Weiss CC and Hughes ME(1998) ldquoInteracting effects of
multiple roles on womens healthrdquoJournal of Health Social behaviour
Sep39(3)216-36
231
Wallerstein J S amp Kelly J (1980) Surviving the breakup How children
and parents cope with divorce New York Basic Books
WaltersV P Mcdonoughand L Strohschein (2002) ldquoChronic stress and
the social patterning of womens health in Canada social sciences and
medicine Mar54(5)767-82
Warren J A amp Johnson P J (1995) The impact of workplace support on
work-family role strain Family Relations 44 163-169
Weissman MM Leaf PJ amp Bruce ML (1987) Single parent women
SocialPsychiatry 22 29-36
Wheaton Blair ( 1994) ldquoSampling the Stress Universerdquo Pp 77ndash114 in
Stress and Mental Health Contemporary Issues and Prospects for the
Future edited by W Avison and I Gotlib New York Plenum
White L K A Booth and JN Edwards (1986) ldquoChildren and Marital
Happiness Why the Negative Correlationrdquo Journal of Family Issues 7
131-147
Wijnberg M H amp Reding K M (1999) Reclaiming a stress focus the
hassles of rural poor single mothers Families in Society 80(5) 506ndash
515
Willicox S (2003) ldquoThe Effect of Widowhood on Physical and Mental
Healthrdquo Health Behaviour and Health Outcome 22(5) 513-522
Wojtkiewicz RA SS McLanahan and I Garfinkel (1990) The
Growth of Families Headed by Women 1950-1980 Demo- graphy
2719-30
World Bank (2001a) World Bank Policy Research Report 2001
Engendering Development Through Gender Equality in Rights
Resources and Voice Oxford University Press New York
232
World Bank (2007) Global Monitoring Report Millennium Development
Goals Confronting the Challenges of Gender Equality and Fragile
States World Bank Washington DC
Zachariah Mathew and Irudaya Rajan (2007) ldquoMigrationRemittances
And Employment Short-term Trends and Longterm
ImplicationsrdquoDecember Centre for Develoment Studies
WP395ThiruvananathapuramKerala
Zachariah KC ET Mathew and Irudaya Rajan S (1999)rdquoKerala
Migrants in India and Abroad Working Paper 1CDS Studies on
International Migration from Keral state in Indiaed by Zachariah etal
Centre for Develoment Studies Thiruvananathapuram Kerala
Zachariah KC Mathew ET Rajan S I (2001) Social economic and
demographic consequences of migration on Kerala International
Migration 2001 39(2)43ndash67
Zahoor Hussain Javed and Ayesha Asif (2011) Female households and
poverty A case study of Faisalabad District International Journal of
Peace and Development Studies Vol 2(2) pp 37-44 February 2011
Zheng Wu Feng Hou and Christoph M Schimmele (2008) ldquoFamily
Structure and Children‟s Psychosocial Outcomesrdquo Journal of Family
Issues Volume 29 Number 12 December
221
Pearlin L I amp Schooler C (1978) The structure oi coping Journal of
Health and Social Behavior 19 2-21
Pearlin L I (1983) Role strains and personal stress In H B Kaplan (Ed)
Psychological stress (pp 3-32) New York Academic Press
Pearlin L I and Johnson J S (1977) Marital status life-strains and
depression American Sociological Review 42 (October)704-715
Pedraza Silvia (1991) ldquoWomen and Migration The Social Consequences
of Genderrdquo Annual Review of Sociology 17303-325
Peggy A Thoits (1995) ldquoStressCopying and social support processWhere
are weWhart NextrdquoJournal of Health And Social Behaviour vol35
Pfiffner L J McBurnett K amp Rathouz P J (2001) Father absence and
familial antisocial characteristics Journal of Abnormal Child
Psychology 29 357ndash 367
Polakow V (1993) Lives on the edge Single mothers and their children in
the other America Chicago University of Chicago Press
Population CouncilInternational Center for Research on Women (1988-
1989) ldquoThe determinants and consequences of female-headed
householdsrdquo Notes from Seminars I II III IV Washington DC
Population Council
Population Reports (2002) Youth and HIVAIDS Can We Avoid
Catastrophe 29 (3) Posel Dorrit R 2001 ldquoWomen Wait Men
Migrate Gender Inequality and Migration Decisions in South Africardquo
Pp 91-117 in Women Farmers Enhancing Rights Recognition and
Productivity edited by Patrick Webb and Katinka Weinberger
Frankfurt am Main Peter Lang
Praveen and Singh (2008)rdquoWomen‟s Empowerment in India Emerging
Perspective and Trends Serials Publications New Delhi
222
Priscilla K Coleman and Katherine Hildebrandt Karraker(2000)
ldquoParenting Self-Efficacy among Mothers of School-Age Children
conceptualizationrdquo Family Relations Vol49issue 1 Pges 13-
27January
Quisumbing Agnes et al (1995) Gender and Poverty New Evidence from
10 Developing Countries International Food Policy Research Institute
Food Consumption and Nutrition Division Discussion Paper No 9
Quisumbing AR L Haddad and C Pena (2001) Are women
overrepresented among the poor An analysis of poverty in 10
developing countries Journal of Development Economics 66 225ndash
269
Radloff L S and Rae D S (1979) Susceptibility and precipitating factors
in depression Journal of Abnormal Psychol-ogy 88 (April)174-181
Raghavan V P (2006)rdquoThekudumbashree Projects In Kerala India ndashA New
Paradigm Of Participatory Economyrdquo presented at the 13 th
Conference of the International Association for the Economics of
Participation On 13-15 July At Mondragon University( Basque
Country Spain
Rajaram Ramaprasad(2009) ldquoFemale-Headed Households and Poverty
Evidence from the National Family Health Surveyrdquo
wwwfrbatlantaorg09-3rd_se international
economics_paper_rajarampdf
Ramanathaiyer S and S Macpherson (2000)Social Development in
Kerala Illusion or Reality Ashgate Publishing Aldershot
Ratusi M and AV Swamy (1999) Explaining Ethnic Differentials in
Credit Market Outcomes in Zimbabwe Economic Development and
Cultural Change 47 585ndash604
Ray R( 2000) ldquoPoverty Household Size and Child Welfare in Indiardquo
Economic and Political Weekly 35 3511-3520
223
Ricardo Barros Louise Fox and Rosane Mendonca (1994) ldquoFemale-
Headed HouseholdsPoverty and the Welfare Of Children in Urban
Brazilrdquo Economic Development and Cultural Change Volume 45
Issue 2 Publisher The World Bank Policy Research Working Paper
Series 1275 Pages 231
Richards L amp Schmiege C (1993) Problems and strengths of single-
parent families Implications for practice and policy Family Relations
42 277-285
Robert T Jensen(2005) ldquoCaste Culture and the Status and Well-Being of
Widows in India ISBN 0-226-90286-2 URL
httpwwwnberorgbookswise05-1 University of Chicago Press
Rodgers Gerry (2000) ldquoGrowth in western India reduces poverty in Biharrdquo
E-seminar on Poverty Available on httpwwwbihartimescom
Rogers Beatrice Lorge (1995) Alternative Definitions of Female Headship
in the Dominican Republic World Development 23 (12) 2033-2039
Ronald L Simons Kuel-HsiulinLeslie C GordonGene H BrodyVelma
Murry and Rand D Conge (2002) ldquoCommunity Differences in the
Association Between parenting Practices and Child Conduct
Problemsrdquo Journal of Marriage and Family Vol 64 No 2 May
Rosenhouse Sandra (1989) Identifying the Poor Is bdquoHeadship‟ a Useful
Concept World Bank Living Standard Measurement Study Working
Paper No 58
Ross C E J Mirkowski and K Goldsteen (1990) ldquoThe Impact of the
Family on Health The Decade in Reviewrdquo Journal of Marriage and
the Family 52 1059-1078
Roy Archana K and Parveen Nangia (2005) ldquoReproductive Health Status
of Wives Left Behind by Male Out-migrants A Study of Rural Bihar
Indiardquo Pp209-241 in S Jatrana M Toyota and BYeoh (eds)
Migration and Health in Asia London Routledge
224
Rukmalie Jayakody and Dawn Stauffer(2000) ldquoMental Health Problems
Among Single Mothers Implications for Work and Welfare Reformrdquo
Journal of Social Issues vol56 issue4 paged 617-634
Russell SS (1997) International migration implications for the World
Bank in Working Paper Human Capital Development and
Operations Policy (Washington DC World Bank)
SakhiUNIFEM (2002) Support Services to Counter Violence Against
Women in Kerala A Resource Directory Thiruvananthapuram
Kerala SB Press
Sandefur Gary D Sara McLanahan and Roger A Wojtkiewicz (1992)
ldquoThe Effects of Parental Marital Status during Adolescence on High
School Graduationrdquo Social Forces 71(1) 103-121
Sanni L (2006) Comparative Study Of Female-Headed Households In The
City Of Ibadan Jenda A Journal Of Culture And African Women
Studies 2 (8)
Saradamoni K (2001) bdquoKerala Women Less Than Equals‟ Samyukta 12
pp12-21
Sarah Beth Estes (2004) ldquo How Are Family-Responsive Workplace
Arrangements Family Friendly Employer Accommodations
Parenting and Childrens Socioemotional Well-Beingrdquo The
Sociological Quarterly Vol 45 No 4 (Autumn) pp 637-661
Sarah K Spillman Lorenz F Wickramma (2006) Divorce leads to poor
psychological and Physical Health in Women Institute for Social and
Behaviour Research Retrieved March 19 2007 from htpp
wwwsearch mothercom
Sarah O Meadows Sara S Mclanahan and Jeanne Brooks (2007)
ldquoParental Depression and Anxiety and Early Childhood Behavior
Problems Across Family Types Journal of Marriage and Family 69
December 1162ndash1177
225
SarahJ Schoppe-SullivanAlice C Schermerhorn and E Mark Cummings
(2007) Marital Conflict and Children‟s Adjustment Evaluation of the
Parenting Process Modelrdquo Journal of Marriage and Family Volume
69 Issue 5 Pages 1118-1134
Schultz T Paul( 2001) ldquoWomen‟s Role in the Agricultural Household
Bargaining and Human Capital Investmentsrdquo Agricultural and
Resource Economics Handbook Vol No1
SekharTV (1993 ) ldquoMigration selectively from rural areas Evidence from
KeralardquoDemograhy Inidia22(2)
Senada Smajic and Sergio Ermacora (2007)rdquo Poverty amongst female-
headed households in Bosnia and Herzegovina An empirical analysisrdquo
South East European Journal of Economics and Business vol2 issue 1
pages69-88
Shanthi K (1994) Growing Incidence of Female Household Headship
Causes and Cure Social Action (New Delhi) 44 17-33
Sharmishtha Basu and Shiv (2008) in their study on ldquoWork Status and
Health of Women A Comparative Study of Northern and Southern
States of Rural IndiardquoWorld Health and population 10(2)
Shaw S (1991) The conflicting experiences of lone parent-hood In M
Hardey amp G Crow (Eds) Lone parenthood (p 143-155) Toronto
University of Toronto Press
Sheryl L Olson and Victoria Banyard (1993) Stop the World So I Can
Get off for a While Sources of Daily Stress in the Lives of Low-
Income Single Mothers of Young Childrenrdquo Journal of Family
Relations v42 n1 January
ShinjuV (2006)rdquoWomen Headed Households A study of the socio
economic status and survival strategiesrdquo Thesis submitted by
University of Kerala foe the degree of Doctor of philosophy
226
Short Kathleen and Thesia I Garner (2002) Experimental Poverty
Measures Un- der Alternate Treatments of Medical Out-of-Pocket
Expenditure An Application of the Consumer Expenditure Survey
Working Paper No 358 US Bureau of Labor Statistics
Shubhashis Gangopadhyay And Wilima Wadhw (2003) bdquoAre Indian
Female-Headed Households Morevulnerable To Poverty India
Development Foundation November 2003
ShylajaL (2002) ldquoLabour Emigration And Its Socio Economic And
Demographic Impact In Keralardquo Thesis submitted to the University of
Kerala for the award of the Degree of Doctor of philosophy
Sigle-Rushton Wendy and Sara McLanahan (2002) For Richer or
Poorer Marriage as Poverty Alleviation in the United States
Population 57(3) 509-528
Simmons AB (1984) Migration and rural development conceptual
approaches research findings and policy issues in Population
Distribution Migration and Development Proceedings of the Expert
Group on Population Distribution Migration and Development (New
York United Nations)
Simon and Appleton (1996) Women-Headed Households and Household
Welfare An Empirical Deconstruction for Ugandardquo journal World
Development Vol24 issue12 Pages (1811-1827)
Simon RW (1995) ldquoGender Multiple Roles Role Meanings and Mental
Healthrdquo Journal of Health and Social Behavior 36 182-94
Simons PCM HAJ Versteegh A W Jongbloed P AKemme P
Slump K D Bos MGE Wolters R F Beudekerand G J
Verschoor (1990) Improvement of phosphorus availability by
microbial phytase in broilers and pigs Br J Nutr 64525ndash540
Simons R L Johnson C Conger R D amp Elder G Jr (1998) A test
of latent trait versus life-course perspec- tives on the stability of
adolescent antisocial behavior Criminology 36 217-242
227
Singh ML (1997) Emigration from Nepal Some Major issues ldquoNepal
Population and Development JournalJul37-47
Singh Indu B (2000) ldquoBihar Yet to Reap the Bonus of Her Backwardnessrdquo
E-Seminar on Poverty in Bihar wwwbihartimescom
Smith Ken R and Cathleen DZick (1986) ldquoThe Incidence of Poverty
Among the Recently Widowhood Mediating Factors in the Life
Courserdquo Journal of Marriage and the Family 48619-30
Standing Guy (1999a)rdquoGlobal Feminization through Flexible Labor a
Theme Re- visited World Development 27503-602
Stegelin DAampFrankel J (1993) Families of lower-income employed
mothers In J Frankel (Ed) The employed mother and the family
context (pp 115-131) New York Springer Publishing Company
Storey D J (2004) Racial and Gender Discrimination in the Micro Firms
Credit Market Evidence from Trinidad and Tobago Small Business
Economics 23(5) 401ndash22
Suchet M amp Barling J (1986) Employed mothers Interrole conflict
spouse support and marital functioning Journal of Occupational
Behaviour 7 167- 178
Sumit Mazumdar and M Guruswamyin (2006) ldquoFemale Labour Force
Participation in Kerala Problems and Prospects [Unpublished] 2006
Presented at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of
America Los Angeles California March 30 - April 1 2006 26 p
Sunny (2006) Problems of Single women in KeralardquoSponsored byNational
Commission for Women Govt of India
Suresh kumar and Lini (2010) ldquoNutritional status of women in kerlaa
comprehensive study of male and female headed householdsrdquo Journal
of Human Development Volume 2No1 June
Swarup H and Rajput P (1994) ldquoWomen and Globalization reflections
options and Strategiesrdquo Ashok Publications New Delhi
228
Tanzima Zohra Habib (2010) bdquoSocio-Psychological Status of Female Heads
of Households in Rajshahi City Bangladesh‟ Journal of Anthropology
vol 6 n 2
Taylor Matthew J Michelle J Moran-Taylor and Debra Rodman Ruiz
( 2006) ldquoLand Ethnic and Gender Change Transnational Migration
and its Effect on Guatemalan Lives and Landscapes Geoforum 3741-
61
The ILO Thesaurus (2005) Retrieved September 16 2009International
Labour organization (ILO) Web Site
httpwwwiloorgpubliclibdocILO-Thesaurus english tr3578htm
The World Bank (2001) Engendering Development - Through Gender
Equality in Rights Resources and Voice World Bank Washington
DC
Thoits A Peggy (1995) ldquoStress Coping and Social Support Processes
Where Are We What NextrdquoJournal of Health and Social Behavior
Vol 35 Extra Issue Forty Years of Medical Sociology The State of
the Art and Directions for the Future pp 53- 79
Thomson Elizabeth Thomas L Hanson and Sara S McLanahan
(1994) ldquoFamily Structure and ChildWell-Being Economic Resources
Vs Parental Behaviorsrdquo SocialForces 73221-242
Timothy J Biblarz and Greg Gottainer (2000)rdquo Family Structure and
Childrens Success A Comparison of Widowed and Divorced Single-
Mother Familiesrdquo Journal of Marriage and the Family Vol 62 No 2
(May 2000) pp 533-548 Published by National Council on Family
Relations Stable
Tinker Irene ed (1990) Persistent Inequalities Women and World
Development New York Oxford University Press
Turner A Heather (2006 ) ldquoStress Social Resources and Depression among
Never-Married and Divorced Rural Mothersrdquo Rural Sociology
Volume71issue3Pages479-504September
229
Turner R J Lloyd D A amp Roszell P (1999) Personal resources and the
social distribution of depression American Journal of Community
Psychology 27 643ndash672
US Bureau of the Census (2001) People and families in poverty by
selected characteristics 1999 and 2000 Retrieved on February 4
2002 from
httpwwwcensusgovhhespovertypoverty00tables00html
UNDP (2001) Human Dvelopment Report2001 Making New Technologies
work for human development ldquo New York Oxford University Press
Unisa Sayeed and Datta Nitin (2005)rdquo Female Headship In India Levels
Differentials And Impactrdquo iussp2005princetonedu downloadaspx
submission Id=50705
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia
(UNESCWA) (1995b) Women and Poverty in the ESCWA Region
Issues and Concerns Study prepared by C Fawzi El-Solh New York
United Nations (1995) The Worlds Women 1995 Trends and Statistics
New York United Nations
United NationsDepartment for Economic and Social Information
(UNDESI) (1991) The World‟s Women 1970-1990 Trends and
Statistics Department for Economic and Social Information Social
Statistics and Indicators Series K no 8 New York
United NationsDepartment for Economic and Social Information
(UNDESI) (1997) Handbook for Producing National Statistics
Reports on Women and Men Statistics Division New York
United Nations (2005) The Millennium Development Goals Report 2005
New YorkUnited Nations
Van Meter M J amp Agronow S J (1982) The stress of multiple roles
The case for role strain among married college women Family
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Vardhan Ranjay (1999)Female Headed households in Patriarchal
SocietyIndian Publishers‟ Distributors156-DKamala Nagar Delhi-
110 007
Varghese Sheela (1990) ldquo Female-Supported Householdsrdquo Economic and
Political Weekly Vol 31 No 22 Jun 1 p 1290
Varley A (1996) ldquoWomen Heading Households Some More Equal Than
Otherrdquo World Development 24(3) 505-520
Villarreal Andreacutes and Heeju Shin ( 2008) Unraveling the Economic
Paradox of Female-Headed Households in Mexico The Role of Family
Networks Sociological Quarterly 49(3) 565ndash595
Visaria P and Visaria L (1985) ldquoIndian Households with Female Heads
Their Incidence Characteristics and Levels of Livingrdquo in Jain D and
Banerjee N (ed) Tyranny of the Household New Delhi Shakti Books
Vonnie C McLoyd Toby Epstein Jayaratne Rosario Ceballo Julio
Borquez (1994)rdquo Unemployment and Work Interruption among
African American Single Mothers Effects on Parenting and
Adolescent Socio emotional Functioningrdquo Child Development Vol
65 No 2 Children and Poverty) pp 562-589
Vu Manh Loi (1996) Female- Headed Households in Vietnam Working
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World Bank (2007) Global Monitoring Report Millennium Development
Goals Confronting the Challenges of Gender Equality and Fragile
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Waldron I Weiss CC and Hughes ME(1998) ldquoInteracting effects of
multiple roles on womens healthrdquoJournal of Health Social behaviour
Sep39(3)216-36
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WaltersV P Mcdonoughand L Strohschein (2002) ldquoChronic stress and
the social patterning of womens health in Canada social sciences and
medicine Mar54(5)767-82
Warren J A amp Johnson P J (1995) The impact of workplace support on
work-family role strain Family Relations 44 163-169
Weissman MM Leaf PJ amp Bruce ML (1987) Single parent women
SocialPsychiatry 22 29-36
Wheaton Blair ( 1994) ldquoSampling the Stress Universerdquo Pp 77ndash114 in
Stress and Mental Health Contemporary Issues and Prospects for the
Future edited by W Avison and I Gotlib New York Plenum
White L K A Booth and JN Edwards (1986) ldquoChildren and Marital
Happiness Why the Negative Correlationrdquo Journal of Family Issues 7
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Wijnberg M H amp Reding K M (1999) Reclaiming a stress focus the
hassles of rural poor single mothers Families in Society 80(5) 506ndash
515
Willicox S (2003) ldquoThe Effect of Widowhood on Physical and Mental
Healthrdquo Health Behaviour and Health Outcome 22(5) 513-522
Wojtkiewicz RA SS McLanahan and I Garfinkel (1990) The
Growth of Families Headed by Women 1950-1980 Demo- graphy
2719-30
World Bank (2001a) World Bank Policy Research Report 2001
Engendering Development Through Gender Equality in Rights
Resources and Voice Oxford University Press New York
232
World Bank (2007) Global Monitoring Report Millennium Development
Goals Confronting the Challenges of Gender Equality and Fragile
States World Bank Washington DC
Zachariah Mathew and Irudaya Rajan (2007) ldquoMigrationRemittances
And Employment Short-term Trends and Longterm
ImplicationsrdquoDecember Centre for Develoment Studies
WP395ThiruvananathapuramKerala
Zachariah KC ET Mathew and Irudaya Rajan S (1999)rdquoKerala
Migrants in India and Abroad Working Paper 1CDS Studies on
International Migration from Keral state in Indiaed by Zachariah etal
Centre for Develoment Studies Thiruvananathapuram Kerala
Zachariah KC Mathew ET Rajan S I (2001) Social economic and
demographic consequences of migration on Kerala International
Migration 2001 39(2)43ndash67
Zahoor Hussain Javed and Ayesha Asif (2011) Female households and
poverty A case study of Faisalabad District International Journal of
Peace and Development Studies Vol 2(2) pp 37-44 February 2011
Zheng Wu Feng Hou and Christoph M Schimmele (2008) ldquoFamily
Structure and Children‟s Psychosocial Outcomesrdquo Journal of Family
Issues Volume 29 Number 12 December
222
Priscilla K Coleman and Katherine Hildebrandt Karraker(2000)
ldquoParenting Self-Efficacy among Mothers of School-Age Children
conceptualizationrdquo Family Relations Vol49issue 1 Pges 13-
27January
Quisumbing Agnes et al (1995) Gender and Poverty New Evidence from
10 Developing Countries International Food Policy Research Institute
Food Consumption and Nutrition Division Discussion Paper No 9
Quisumbing AR L Haddad and C Pena (2001) Are women
overrepresented among the poor An analysis of poverty in 10
developing countries Journal of Development Economics 66 225ndash
269
Radloff L S and Rae D S (1979) Susceptibility and precipitating factors
in depression Journal of Abnormal Psychol-ogy 88 (April)174-181
Raghavan V P (2006)rdquoThekudumbashree Projects In Kerala India ndashA New
Paradigm Of Participatory Economyrdquo presented at the 13 th
Conference of the International Association for the Economics of
Participation On 13-15 July At Mondragon University( Basque
Country Spain
Rajaram Ramaprasad(2009) ldquoFemale-Headed Households and Poverty
Evidence from the National Family Health Surveyrdquo
wwwfrbatlantaorg09-3rd_se international
economics_paper_rajarampdf
Ramanathaiyer S and S Macpherson (2000)Social Development in
Kerala Illusion or Reality Ashgate Publishing Aldershot
Ratusi M and AV Swamy (1999) Explaining Ethnic Differentials in
Credit Market Outcomes in Zimbabwe Economic Development and
Cultural Change 47 585ndash604
Ray R( 2000) ldquoPoverty Household Size and Child Welfare in Indiardquo
Economic and Political Weekly 35 3511-3520
223
Ricardo Barros Louise Fox and Rosane Mendonca (1994) ldquoFemale-
Headed HouseholdsPoverty and the Welfare Of Children in Urban
Brazilrdquo Economic Development and Cultural Change Volume 45
Issue 2 Publisher The World Bank Policy Research Working Paper
Series 1275 Pages 231
Richards L amp Schmiege C (1993) Problems and strengths of single-
parent families Implications for practice and policy Family Relations
42 277-285
Robert T Jensen(2005) ldquoCaste Culture and the Status and Well-Being of
Widows in India ISBN 0-226-90286-2 URL
httpwwwnberorgbookswise05-1 University of Chicago Press
Rodgers Gerry (2000) ldquoGrowth in western India reduces poverty in Biharrdquo
E-seminar on Poverty Available on httpwwwbihartimescom
Rogers Beatrice Lorge (1995) Alternative Definitions of Female Headship
in the Dominican Republic World Development 23 (12) 2033-2039
Ronald L Simons Kuel-HsiulinLeslie C GordonGene H BrodyVelma
Murry and Rand D Conge (2002) ldquoCommunity Differences in the
Association Between parenting Practices and Child Conduct
Problemsrdquo Journal of Marriage and Family Vol 64 No 2 May
Rosenhouse Sandra (1989) Identifying the Poor Is bdquoHeadship‟ a Useful
Concept World Bank Living Standard Measurement Study Working
Paper No 58
Ross C E J Mirkowski and K Goldsteen (1990) ldquoThe Impact of the
Family on Health The Decade in Reviewrdquo Journal of Marriage and
the Family 52 1059-1078
Roy Archana K and Parveen Nangia (2005) ldquoReproductive Health Status
of Wives Left Behind by Male Out-migrants A Study of Rural Bihar
Indiardquo Pp209-241 in S Jatrana M Toyota and BYeoh (eds)
Migration and Health in Asia London Routledge
224
Rukmalie Jayakody and Dawn Stauffer(2000) ldquoMental Health Problems
Among Single Mothers Implications for Work and Welfare Reformrdquo
Journal of Social Issues vol56 issue4 paged 617-634
Russell SS (1997) International migration implications for the World
Bank in Working Paper Human Capital Development and
Operations Policy (Washington DC World Bank)
SakhiUNIFEM (2002) Support Services to Counter Violence Against
Women in Kerala A Resource Directory Thiruvananthapuram
Kerala SB Press
Sandefur Gary D Sara McLanahan and Roger A Wojtkiewicz (1992)
ldquoThe Effects of Parental Marital Status during Adolescence on High
School Graduationrdquo Social Forces 71(1) 103-121
Sanni L (2006) Comparative Study Of Female-Headed Households In The
City Of Ibadan Jenda A Journal Of Culture And African Women
Studies 2 (8)
Saradamoni K (2001) bdquoKerala Women Less Than Equals‟ Samyukta 12
pp12-21
Sarah Beth Estes (2004) ldquo How Are Family-Responsive Workplace
Arrangements Family Friendly Employer Accommodations
Parenting and Childrens Socioemotional Well-Beingrdquo The
Sociological Quarterly Vol 45 No 4 (Autumn) pp 637-661
Sarah K Spillman Lorenz F Wickramma (2006) Divorce leads to poor
psychological and Physical Health in Women Institute for Social and
Behaviour Research Retrieved March 19 2007 from htpp
wwwsearch mothercom
Sarah O Meadows Sara S Mclanahan and Jeanne Brooks (2007)
ldquoParental Depression and Anxiety and Early Childhood Behavior
Problems Across Family Types Journal of Marriage and Family 69
December 1162ndash1177
225
SarahJ Schoppe-SullivanAlice C Schermerhorn and E Mark Cummings
(2007) Marital Conflict and Children‟s Adjustment Evaluation of the
Parenting Process Modelrdquo Journal of Marriage and Family Volume
69 Issue 5 Pages 1118-1134
Schultz T Paul( 2001) ldquoWomen‟s Role in the Agricultural Household
Bargaining and Human Capital Investmentsrdquo Agricultural and
Resource Economics Handbook Vol No1
SekharTV (1993 ) ldquoMigration selectively from rural areas Evidence from
KeralardquoDemograhy Inidia22(2)
Senada Smajic and Sergio Ermacora (2007)rdquo Poverty amongst female-
headed households in Bosnia and Herzegovina An empirical analysisrdquo
South East European Journal of Economics and Business vol2 issue 1
pages69-88
Shanthi K (1994) Growing Incidence of Female Household Headship
Causes and Cure Social Action (New Delhi) 44 17-33
Sharmishtha Basu and Shiv (2008) in their study on ldquoWork Status and
Health of Women A Comparative Study of Northern and Southern
States of Rural IndiardquoWorld Health and population 10(2)
Shaw S (1991) The conflicting experiences of lone parent-hood In M
Hardey amp G Crow (Eds) Lone parenthood (p 143-155) Toronto
University of Toronto Press
Sheryl L Olson and Victoria Banyard (1993) Stop the World So I Can
Get off for a While Sources of Daily Stress in the Lives of Low-
Income Single Mothers of Young Childrenrdquo Journal of Family
Relations v42 n1 January
ShinjuV (2006)rdquoWomen Headed Households A study of the socio
economic status and survival strategiesrdquo Thesis submitted by
University of Kerala foe the degree of Doctor of philosophy
226
Short Kathleen and Thesia I Garner (2002) Experimental Poverty
Measures Un- der Alternate Treatments of Medical Out-of-Pocket
Expenditure An Application of the Consumer Expenditure Survey
Working Paper No 358 US Bureau of Labor Statistics
Shubhashis Gangopadhyay And Wilima Wadhw (2003) bdquoAre Indian
Female-Headed Households Morevulnerable To Poverty India
Development Foundation November 2003
ShylajaL (2002) ldquoLabour Emigration And Its Socio Economic And
Demographic Impact In Keralardquo Thesis submitted to the University of
Kerala for the award of the Degree of Doctor of philosophy
Sigle-Rushton Wendy and Sara McLanahan (2002) For Richer or
Poorer Marriage as Poverty Alleviation in the United States
Population 57(3) 509-528
Simmons AB (1984) Migration and rural development conceptual
approaches research findings and policy issues in Population
Distribution Migration and Development Proceedings of the Expert
Group on Population Distribution Migration and Development (New
York United Nations)
Simon and Appleton (1996) Women-Headed Households and Household
Welfare An Empirical Deconstruction for Ugandardquo journal World
Development Vol24 issue12 Pages (1811-1827)
Simon RW (1995) ldquoGender Multiple Roles Role Meanings and Mental
Healthrdquo Journal of Health and Social Behavior 36 182-94
Simons PCM HAJ Versteegh A W Jongbloed P AKemme P
Slump K D Bos MGE Wolters R F Beudekerand G J
Verschoor (1990) Improvement of phosphorus availability by
microbial phytase in broilers and pigs Br J Nutr 64525ndash540
Simons R L Johnson C Conger R D amp Elder G Jr (1998) A test
of latent trait versus life-course perspec- tives on the stability of
adolescent antisocial behavior Criminology 36 217-242
227
Singh ML (1997) Emigration from Nepal Some Major issues ldquoNepal
Population and Development JournalJul37-47
Singh Indu B (2000) ldquoBihar Yet to Reap the Bonus of Her Backwardnessrdquo
E-Seminar on Poverty in Bihar wwwbihartimescom
Smith Ken R and Cathleen DZick (1986) ldquoThe Incidence of Poverty
Among the Recently Widowhood Mediating Factors in the Life
Courserdquo Journal of Marriage and the Family 48619-30
Standing Guy (1999a)rdquoGlobal Feminization through Flexible Labor a
Theme Re- visited World Development 27503-602
Stegelin DAampFrankel J (1993) Families of lower-income employed
mothers In J Frankel (Ed) The employed mother and the family
context (pp 115-131) New York Springer Publishing Company
Storey D J (2004) Racial and Gender Discrimination in the Micro Firms
Credit Market Evidence from Trinidad and Tobago Small Business
Economics 23(5) 401ndash22
Suchet M amp Barling J (1986) Employed mothers Interrole conflict
spouse support and marital functioning Journal of Occupational
Behaviour 7 167- 178
Sumit Mazumdar and M Guruswamyin (2006) ldquoFemale Labour Force
Participation in Kerala Problems and Prospects [Unpublished] 2006
Presented at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of
America Los Angeles California March 30 - April 1 2006 26 p
Sunny (2006) Problems of Single women in KeralardquoSponsored byNational
Commission for Women Govt of India
Suresh kumar and Lini (2010) ldquoNutritional status of women in kerlaa
comprehensive study of male and female headed householdsrdquo Journal
of Human Development Volume 2No1 June
Swarup H and Rajput P (1994) ldquoWomen and Globalization reflections
options and Strategiesrdquo Ashok Publications New Delhi
228
Tanzima Zohra Habib (2010) bdquoSocio-Psychological Status of Female Heads
of Households in Rajshahi City Bangladesh‟ Journal of Anthropology
vol 6 n 2
Taylor Matthew J Michelle J Moran-Taylor and Debra Rodman Ruiz
( 2006) ldquoLand Ethnic and Gender Change Transnational Migration
and its Effect on Guatemalan Lives and Landscapes Geoforum 3741-
61
The ILO Thesaurus (2005) Retrieved September 16 2009International
Labour organization (ILO) Web Site
httpwwwiloorgpubliclibdocILO-Thesaurus english tr3578htm
The World Bank (2001) Engendering Development - Through Gender
Equality in Rights Resources and Voice World Bank Washington
DC
Thoits A Peggy (1995) ldquoStress Coping and Social Support Processes
Where Are We What NextrdquoJournal of Health and Social Behavior
Vol 35 Extra Issue Forty Years of Medical Sociology The State of
the Art and Directions for the Future pp 53- 79
Thomson Elizabeth Thomas L Hanson and Sara S McLanahan
(1994) ldquoFamily Structure and ChildWell-Being Economic Resources
Vs Parental Behaviorsrdquo SocialForces 73221-242
Timothy J Biblarz and Greg Gottainer (2000)rdquo Family Structure and
Childrens Success A Comparison of Widowed and Divorced Single-
Mother Familiesrdquo Journal of Marriage and the Family Vol 62 No 2
(May 2000) pp 533-548 Published by National Council on Family
Relations Stable
Tinker Irene ed (1990) Persistent Inequalities Women and World
Development New York Oxford University Press
Turner A Heather (2006 ) ldquoStress Social Resources and Depression among
Never-Married and Divorced Rural Mothersrdquo Rural Sociology
Volume71issue3Pages479-504September
229
Turner R J Lloyd D A amp Roszell P (1999) Personal resources and the
social distribution of depression American Journal of Community
Psychology 27 643ndash672
US Bureau of the Census (2001) People and families in poverty by
selected characteristics 1999 and 2000 Retrieved on February 4
2002 from
httpwwwcensusgovhhespovertypoverty00tables00html
UNDP (2001) Human Dvelopment Report2001 Making New Technologies
work for human development ldquo New York Oxford University Press
Unisa Sayeed and Datta Nitin (2005)rdquo Female Headship In India Levels
Differentials And Impactrdquo iussp2005princetonedu downloadaspx
submission Id=50705
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia
(UNESCWA) (1995b) Women and Poverty in the ESCWA Region
Issues and Concerns Study prepared by C Fawzi El-Solh New York
United Nations (1995) The Worlds Women 1995 Trends and Statistics
New York United Nations
United NationsDepartment for Economic and Social Information
(UNDESI) (1991) The World‟s Women 1970-1990 Trends and
Statistics Department for Economic and Social Information Social
Statistics and Indicators Series K no 8 New York
United NationsDepartment for Economic and Social Information
(UNDESI) (1997) Handbook for Producing National Statistics
Reports on Women and Men Statistics Division New York
United Nations (2005) The Millennium Development Goals Report 2005
New YorkUnited Nations
Van Meter M J amp Agronow S J (1982) The stress of multiple roles
The case for role strain among married college women Family
Relations 31 131- 138
230
Vardhan Ranjay (1999)Female Headed households in Patriarchal
SocietyIndian Publishers‟ Distributors156-DKamala Nagar Delhi-
110 007
Varghese Sheela (1990) ldquo Female-Supported Householdsrdquo Economic and
Political Weekly Vol 31 No 22 Jun 1 p 1290
Varley A (1996) ldquoWomen Heading Households Some More Equal Than
Otherrdquo World Development 24(3) 505-520
Villarreal Andreacutes and Heeju Shin ( 2008) Unraveling the Economic
Paradox of Female-Headed Households in Mexico The Role of Family
Networks Sociological Quarterly 49(3) 565ndash595
Visaria P and Visaria L (1985) ldquoIndian Households with Female Heads
Their Incidence Characteristics and Levels of Livingrdquo in Jain D and
Banerjee N (ed) Tyranny of the Household New Delhi Shakti Books
Vonnie C McLoyd Toby Epstein Jayaratne Rosario Ceballo Julio
Borquez (1994)rdquo Unemployment and Work Interruption among
African American Single Mothers Effects on Parenting and
Adolescent Socio emotional Functioningrdquo Child Development Vol
65 No 2 Children and Poverty) pp 562-589
Vu Manh Loi (1996) Female- Headed Households in Vietnam Working
Paper No 96-11 Seattle WA University of Washington Seattle
Population Research Center
World Bank (2007) Global Monitoring Report Millennium Development
Goals Confronting the Challenges of Gender Equality and Fragile
States World Bank Washington DC
Waldron I Weiss CC and Hughes ME(1998) ldquoInteracting effects of
multiple roles on womens healthrdquoJournal of Health Social behaviour
Sep39(3)216-36
231
Wallerstein J S amp Kelly J (1980) Surviving the breakup How children
and parents cope with divorce New York Basic Books
WaltersV P Mcdonoughand L Strohschein (2002) ldquoChronic stress and
the social patterning of womens health in Canada social sciences and
medicine Mar54(5)767-82
Warren J A amp Johnson P J (1995) The impact of workplace support on
work-family role strain Family Relations 44 163-169
Weissman MM Leaf PJ amp Bruce ML (1987) Single parent women
SocialPsychiatry 22 29-36
Wheaton Blair ( 1994) ldquoSampling the Stress Universerdquo Pp 77ndash114 in
Stress and Mental Health Contemporary Issues and Prospects for the
Future edited by W Avison and I Gotlib New York Plenum
White L K A Booth and JN Edwards (1986) ldquoChildren and Marital
Happiness Why the Negative Correlationrdquo Journal of Family Issues 7
131-147
Wijnberg M H amp Reding K M (1999) Reclaiming a stress focus the
hassles of rural poor single mothers Families in Society 80(5) 506ndash
515
Willicox S (2003) ldquoThe Effect of Widowhood on Physical and Mental
Healthrdquo Health Behaviour and Health Outcome 22(5) 513-522
Wojtkiewicz RA SS McLanahan and I Garfinkel (1990) The
Growth of Families Headed by Women 1950-1980 Demo- graphy
2719-30
World Bank (2001a) World Bank Policy Research Report 2001
Engendering Development Through Gender Equality in Rights
Resources and Voice Oxford University Press New York
232
World Bank (2007) Global Monitoring Report Millennium Development
Goals Confronting the Challenges of Gender Equality and Fragile
States World Bank Washington DC
Zachariah Mathew and Irudaya Rajan (2007) ldquoMigrationRemittances
And Employment Short-term Trends and Longterm
ImplicationsrdquoDecember Centre for Develoment Studies
WP395ThiruvananathapuramKerala
Zachariah KC ET Mathew and Irudaya Rajan S (1999)rdquoKerala
Migrants in India and Abroad Working Paper 1CDS Studies on
International Migration from Keral state in Indiaed by Zachariah etal
Centre for Develoment Studies Thiruvananathapuram Kerala
Zachariah KC Mathew ET Rajan S I (2001) Social economic and
demographic consequences of migration on Kerala International
Migration 2001 39(2)43ndash67
Zahoor Hussain Javed and Ayesha Asif (2011) Female households and
poverty A case study of Faisalabad District International Journal of
Peace and Development Studies Vol 2(2) pp 37-44 February 2011
Zheng Wu Feng Hou and Christoph M Schimmele (2008) ldquoFamily
Structure and Children‟s Psychosocial Outcomesrdquo Journal of Family
Issues Volume 29 Number 12 December
223
Ricardo Barros Louise Fox and Rosane Mendonca (1994) ldquoFemale-
Headed HouseholdsPoverty and the Welfare Of Children in Urban
Brazilrdquo Economic Development and Cultural Change Volume 45
Issue 2 Publisher The World Bank Policy Research Working Paper
Series 1275 Pages 231
Richards L amp Schmiege C (1993) Problems and strengths of single-
parent families Implications for practice and policy Family Relations
42 277-285
Robert T Jensen(2005) ldquoCaste Culture and the Status and Well-Being of
Widows in India ISBN 0-226-90286-2 URL
httpwwwnberorgbookswise05-1 University of Chicago Press
Rodgers Gerry (2000) ldquoGrowth in western India reduces poverty in Biharrdquo
E-seminar on Poverty Available on httpwwwbihartimescom
Rogers Beatrice Lorge (1995) Alternative Definitions of Female Headship
in the Dominican Republic World Development 23 (12) 2033-2039
Ronald L Simons Kuel-HsiulinLeslie C GordonGene H BrodyVelma
Murry and Rand D Conge (2002) ldquoCommunity Differences in the
Association Between parenting Practices and Child Conduct
Problemsrdquo Journal of Marriage and Family Vol 64 No 2 May
Rosenhouse Sandra (1989) Identifying the Poor Is bdquoHeadship‟ a Useful
Concept World Bank Living Standard Measurement Study Working
Paper No 58
Ross C E J Mirkowski and K Goldsteen (1990) ldquoThe Impact of the
Family on Health The Decade in Reviewrdquo Journal of Marriage and
the Family 52 1059-1078
Roy Archana K and Parveen Nangia (2005) ldquoReproductive Health Status
of Wives Left Behind by Male Out-migrants A Study of Rural Bihar
Indiardquo Pp209-241 in S Jatrana M Toyota and BYeoh (eds)
Migration and Health in Asia London Routledge
224
Rukmalie Jayakody and Dawn Stauffer(2000) ldquoMental Health Problems
Among Single Mothers Implications for Work and Welfare Reformrdquo
Journal of Social Issues vol56 issue4 paged 617-634
Russell SS (1997) International migration implications for the World
Bank in Working Paper Human Capital Development and
Operations Policy (Washington DC World Bank)
SakhiUNIFEM (2002) Support Services to Counter Violence Against
Women in Kerala A Resource Directory Thiruvananthapuram
Kerala SB Press
Sandefur Gary D Sara McLanahan and Roger A Wojtkiewicz (1992)
ldquoThe Effects of Parental Marital Status during Adolescence on High
School Graduationrdquo Social Forces 71(1) 103-121
Sanni L (2006) Comparative Study Of Female-Headed Households In The
City Of Ibadan Jenda A Journal Of Culture And African Women
Studies 2 (8)
Saradamoni K (2001) bdquoKerala Women Less Than Equals‟ Samyukta 12
pp12-21
Sarah Beth Estes (2004) ldquo How Are Family-Responsive Workplace
Arrangements Family Friendly Employer Accommodations
Parenting and Childrens Socioemotional Well-Beingrdquo The
Sociological Quarterly Vol 45 No 4 (Autumn) pp 637-661
Sarah K Spillman Lorenz F Wickramma (2006) Divorce leads to poor
psychological and Physical Health in Women Institute for Social and
Behaviour Research Retrieved March 19 2007 from htpp
wwwsearch mothercom
Sarah O Meadows Sara S Mclanahan and Jeanne Brooks (2007)
ldquoParental Depression and Anxiety and Early Childhood Behavior
Problems Across Family Types Journal of Marriage and Family 69
December 1162ndash1177
225
SarahJ Schoppe-SullivanAlice C Schermerhorn and E Mark Cummings
(2007) Marital Conflict and Children‟s Adjustment Evaluation of the
Parenting Process Modelrdquo Journal of Marriage and Family Volume
69 Issue 5 Pages 1118-1134
Schultz T Paul( 2001) ldquoWomen‟s Role in the Agricultural Household
Bargaining and Human Capital Investmentsrdquo Agricultural and
Resource Economics Handbook Vol No1
SekharTV (1993 ) ldquoMigration selectively from rural areas Evidence from
KeralardquoDemograhy Inidia22(2)
Senada Smajic and Sergio Ermacora (2007)rdquo Poverty amongst female-
headed households in Bosnia and Herzegovina An empirical analysisrdquo
South East European Journal of Economics and Business vol2 issue 1
pages69-88
Shanthi K (1994) Growing Incidence of Female Household Headship
Causes and Cure Social Action (New Delhi) 44 17-33
Sharmishtha Basu and Shiv (2008) in their study on ldquoWork Status and
Health of Women A Comparative Study of Northern and Southern
States of Rural IndiardquoWorld Health and population 10(2)
Shaw S (1991) The conflicting experiences of lone parent-hood In M
Hardey amp G Crow (Eds) Lone parenthood (p 143-155) Toronto
University of Toronto Press
Sheryl L Olson and Victoria Banyard (1993) Stop the World So I Can
Get off for a While Sources of Daily Stress in the Lives of Low-
Income Single Mothers of Young Childrenrdquo Journal of Family
Relations v42 n1 January
ShinjuV (2006)rdquoWomen Headed Households A study of the socio
economic status and survival strategiesrdquo Thesis submitted by
University of Kerala foe the degree of Doctor of philosophy
226
Short Kathleen and Thesia I Garner (2002) Experimental Poverty
Measures Un- der Alternate Treatments of Medical Out-of-Pocket
Expenditure An Application of the Consumer Expenditure Survey
Working Paper No 358 US Bureau of Labor Statistics
Shubhashis Gangopadhyay And Wilima Wadhw (2003) bdquoAre Indian
Female-Headed Households Morevulnerable To Poverty India
Development Foundation November 2003
ShylajaL (2002) ldquoLabour Emigration And Its Socio Economic And
Demographic Impact In Keralardquo Thesis submitted to the University of
Kerala for the award of the Degree of Doctor of philosophy
Sigle-Rushton Wendy and Sara McLanahan (2002) For Richer or
Poorer Marriage as Poverty Alleviation in the United States
Population 57(3) 509-528
Simmons AB (1984) Migration and rural development conceptual
approaches research findings and policy issues in Population
Distribution Migration and Development Proceedings of the Expert
Group on Population Distribution Migration and Development (New
York United Nations)
Simon and Appleton (1996) Women-Headed Households and Household
Welfare An Empirical Deconstruction for Ugandardquo journal World
Development Vol24 issue12 Pages (1811-1827)
Simon RW (1995) ldquoGender Multiple Roles Role Meanings and Mental
Healthrdquo Journal of Health and Social Behavior 36 182-94
Simons PCM HAJ Versteegh A W Jongbloed P AKemme P
Slump K D Bos MGE Wolters R F Beudekerand G J
Verschoor (1990) Improvement of phosphorus availability by
microbial phytase in broilers and pigs Br J Nutr 64525ndash540
Simons R L Johnson C Conger R D amp Elder G Jr (1998) A test
of latent trait versus life-course perspec- tives on the stability of
adolescent antisocial behavior Criminology 36 217-242
227
Singh ML (1997) Emigration from Nepal Some Major issues ldquoNepal
Population and Development JournalJul37-47
Singh Indu B (2000) ldquoBihar Yet to Reap the Bonus of Her Backwardnessrdquo
E-Seminar on Poverty in Bihar wwwbihartimescom
Smith Ken R and Cathleen DZick (1986) ldquoThe Incidence of Poverty
Among the Recently Widowhood Mediating Factors in the Life
Courserdquo Journal of Marriage and the Family 48619-30
Standing Guy (1999a)rdquoGlobal Feminization through Flexible Labor a
Theme Re- visited World Development 27503-602
Stegelin DAampFrankel J (1993) Families of lower-income employed
mothers In J Frankel (Ed) The employed mother and the family
context (pp 115-131) New York Springer Publishing Company
Storey D J (2004) Racial and Gender Discrimination in the Micro Firms
Credit Market Evidence from Trinidad and Tobago Small Business
Economics 23(5) 401ndash22
Suchet M amp Barling J (1986) Employed mothers Interrole conflict
spouse support and marital functioning Journal of Occupational
Behaviour 7 167- 178
Sumit Mazumdar and M Guruswamyin (2006) ldquoFemale Labour Force
Participation in Kerala Problems and Prospects [Unpublished] 2006
Presented at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of
America Los Angeles California March 30 - April 1 2006 26 p
Sunny (2006) Problems of Single women in KeralardquoSponsored byNational
Commission for Women Govt of India
Suresh kumar and Lini (2010) ldquoNutritional status of women in kerlaa
comprehensive study of male and female headed householdsrdquo Journal
of Human Development Volume 2No1 June
Swarup H and Rajput P (1994) ldquoWomen and Globalization reflections
options and Strategiesrdquo Ashok Publications New Delhi
228
Tanzima Zohra Habib (2010) bdquoSocio-Psychological Status of Female Heads
of Households in Rajshahi City Bangladesh‟ Journal of Anthropology
vol 6 n 2
Taylor Matthew J Michelle J Moran-Taylor and Debra Rodman Ruiz
( 2006) ldquoLand Ethnic and Gender Change Transnational Migration
and its Effect on Guatemalan Lives and Landscapes Geoforum 3741-
61
The ILO Thesaurus (2005) Retrieved September 16 2009International
Labour organization (ILO) Web Site
httpwwwiloorgpubliclibdocILO-Thesaurus english tr3578htm
The World Bank (2001) Engendering Development - Through Gender
Equality in Rights Resources and Voice World Bank Washington
DC
Thoits A Peggy (1995) ldquoStress Coping and Social Support Processes
Where Are We What NextrdquoJournal of Health and Social Behavior
Vol 35 Extra Issue Forty Years of Medical Sociology The State of
the Art and Directions for the Future pp 53- 79
Thomson Elizabeth Thomas L Hanson and Sara S McLanahan
(1994) ldquoFamily Structure and ChildWell-Being Economic Resources
Vs Parental Behaviorsrdquo SocialForces 73221-242
Timothy J Biblarz and Greg Gottainer (2000)rdquo Family Structure and
Childrens Success A Comparison of Widowed and Divorced Single-
Mother Familiesrdquo Journal of Marriage and the Family Vol 62 No 2
(May 2000) pp 533-548 Published by National Council on Family
Relations Stable
Tinker Irene ed (1990) Persistent Inequalities Women and World
Development New York Oxford University Press
Turner A Heather (2006 ) ldquoStress Social Resources and Depression among
Never-Married and Divorced Rural Mothersrdquo Rural Sociology
Volume71issue3Pages479-504September
229
Turner R J Lloyd D A amp Roszell P (1999) Personal resources and the
social distribution of depression American Journal of Community
Psychology 27 643ndash672
US Bureau of the Census (2001) People and families in poverty by
selected characteristics 1999 and 2000 Retrieved on February 4
2002 from
httpwwwcensusgovhhespovertypoverty00tables00html
UNDP (2001) Human Dvelopment Report2001 Making New Technologies
work for human development ldquo New York Oxford University Press
Unisa Sayeed and Datta Nitin (2005)rdquo Female Headship In India Levels
Differentials And Impactrdquo iussp2005princetonedu downloadaspx
submission Id=50705
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia
(UNESCWA) (1995b) Women and Poverty in the ESCWA Region
Issues and Concerns Study prepared by C Fawzi El-Solh New York
United Nations (1995) The Worlds Women 1995 Trends and Statistics
New York United Nations
United NationsDepartment for Economic and Social Information
(UNDESI) (1991) The World‟s Women 1970-1990 Trends and
Statistics Department for Economic and Social Information Social
Statistics and Indicators Series K no 8 New York
United NationsDepartment for Economic and Social Information
(UNDESI) (1997) Handbook for Producing National Statistics
Reports on Women and Men Statistics Division New York
United Nations (2005) The Millennium Development Goals Report 2005
New YorkUnited Nations
Van Meter M J amp Agronow S J (1982) The stress of multiple roles
The case for role strain among married college women Family
Relations 31 131- 138
230
Vardhan Ranjay (1999)Female Headed households in Patriarchal
SocietyIndian Publishers‟ Distributors156-DKamala Nagar Delhi-
110 007
Varghese Sheela (1990) ldquo Female-Supported Householdsrdquo Economic and
Political Weekly Vol 31 No 22 Jun 1 p 1290
Varley A (1996) ldquoWomen Heading Households Some More Equal Than
Otherrdquo World Development 24(3) 505-520
Villarreal Andreacutes and Heeju Shin ( 2008) Unraveling the Economic
Paradox of Female-Headed Households in Mexico The Role of Family
Networks Sociological Quarterly 49(3) 565ndash595
Visaria P and Visaria L (1985) ldquoIndian Households with Female Heads
Their Incidence Characteristics and Levels of Livingrdquo in Jain D and
Banerjee N (ed) Tyranny of the Household New Delhi Shakti Books
Vonnie C McLoyd Toby Epstein Jayaratne Rosario Ceballo Julio
Borquez (1994)rdquo Unemployment and Work Interruption among
African American Single Mothers Effects on Parenting and
Adolescent Socio emotional Functioningrdquo Child Development Vol
65 No 2 Children and Poverty) pp 562-589
Vu Manh Loi (1996) Female- Headed Households in Vietnam Working
Paper No 96-11 Seattle WA University of Washington Seattle
Population Research Center
World Bank (2007) Global Monitoring Report Millennium Development
Goals Confronting the Challenges of Gender Equality and Fragile
States World Bank Washington DC
Waldron I Weiss CC and Hughes ME(1998) ldquoInteracting effects of
multiple roles on womens healthrdquoJournal of Health Social behaviour
Sep39(3)216-36
231
Wallerstein J S amp Kelly J (1980) Surviving the breakup How children
and parents cope with divorce New York Basic Books
WaltersV P Mcdonoughand L Strohschein (2002) ldquoChronic stress and
the social patterning of womens health in Canada social sciences and
medicine Mar54(5)767-82
Warren J A amp Johnson P J (1995) The impact of workplace support on
work-family role strain Family Relations 44 163-169
Weissman MM Leaf PJ amp Bruce ML (1987) Single parent women
SocialPsychiatry 22 29-36
Wheaton Blair ( 1994) ldquoSampling the Stress Universerdquo Pp 77ndash114 in
Stress and Mental Health Contemporary Issues and Prospects for the
Future edited by W Avison and I Gotlib New York Plenum
White L K A Booth and JN Edwards (1986) ldquoChildren and Marital
Happiness Why the Negative Correlationrdquo Journal of Family Issues 7
131-147
Wijnberg M H amp Reding K M (1999) Reclaiming a stress focus the
hassles of rural poor single mothers Families in Society 80(5) 506ndash
515
Willicox S (2003) ldquoThe Effect of Widowhood on Physical and Mental
Healthrdquo Health Behaviour and Health Outcome 22(5) 513-522
Wojtkiewicz RA SS McLanahan and I Garfinkel (1990) The
Growth of Families Headed by Women 1950-1980 Demo- graphy
2719-30
World Bank (2001a) World Bank Policy Research Report 2001
Engendering Development Through Gender Equality in Rights
Resources and Voice Oxford University Press New York
232
World Bank (2007) Global Monitoring Report Millennium Development
Goals Confronting the Challenges of Gender Equality and Fragile
States World Bank Washington DC
Zachariah Mathew and Irudaya Rajan (2007) ldquoMigrationRemittances
And Employment Short-term Trends and Longterm
ImplicationsrdquoDecember Centre for Develoment Studies
WP395ThiruvananathapuramKerala
Zachariah KC ET Mathew and Irudaya Rajan S (1999)rdquoKerala
Migrants in India and Abroad Working Paper 1CDS Studies on
International Migration from Keral state in Indiaed by Zachariah etal
Centre for Develoment Studies Thiruvananathapuram Kerala
Zachariah KC Mathew ET Rajan S I (2001) Social economic and
demographic consequences of migration on Kerala International
Migration 2001 39(2)43ndash67
Zahoor Hussain Javed and Ayesha Asif (2011) Female households and
poverty A case study of Faisalabad District International Journal of
Peace and Development Studies Vol 2(2) pp 37-44 February 2011
Zheng Wu Feng Hou and Christoph M Schimmele (2008) ldquoFamily
Structure and Children‟s Psychosocial Outcomesrdquo Journal of Family
Issues Volume 29 Number 12 December
224
Rukmalie Jayakody and Dawn Stauffer(2000) ldquoMental Health Problems
Among Single Mothers Implications for Work and Welfare Reformrdquo
Journal of Social Issues vol56 issue4 paged 617-634
Russell SS (1997) International migration implications for the World
Bank in Working Paper Human Capital Development and
Operations Policy (Washington DC World Bank)
SakhiUNIFEM (2002) Support Services to Counter Violence Against
Women in Kerala A Resource Directory Thiruvananthapuram
Kerala SB Press
Sandefur Gary D Sara McLanahan and Roger A Wojtkiewicz (1992)
ldquoThe Effects of Parental Marital Status during Adolescence on High
School Graduationrdquo Social Forces 71(1) 103-121
Sanni L (2006) Comparative Study Of Female-Headed Households In The
City Of Ibadan Jenda A Journal Of Culture And African Women
Studies 2 (8)
Saradamoni K (2001) bdquoKerala Women Less Than Equals‟ Samyukta 12
pp12-21
Sarah Beth Estes (2004) ldquo How Are Family-Responsive Workplace
Arrangements Family Friendly Employer Accommodations
Parenting and Childrens Socioemotional Well-Beingrdquo The
Sociological Quarterly Vol 45 No 4 (Autumn) pp 637-661
Sarah K Spillman Lorenz F Wickramma (2006) Divorce leads to poor
psychological and Physical Health in Women Institute for Social and
Behaviour Research Retrieved March 19 2007 from htpp
wwwsearch mothercom
Sarah O Meadows Sara S Mclanahan and Jeanne Brooks (2007)
ldquoParental Depression and Anxiety and Early Childhood Behavior
Problems Across Family Types Journal of Marriage and Family 69
December 1162ndash1177
225
SarahJ Schoppe-SullivanAlice C Schermerhorn and E Mark Cummings
(2007) Marital Conflict and Children‟s Adjustment Evaluation of the
Parenting Process Modelrdquo Journal of Marriage and Family Volume
69 Issue 5 Pages 1118-1134
Schultz T Paul( 2001) ldquoWomen‟s Role in the Agricultural Household
Bargaining and Human Capital Investmentsrdquo Agricultural and
Resource Economics Handbook Vol No1
SekharTV (1993 ) ldquoMigration selectively from rural areas Evidence from
KeralardquoDemograhy Inidia22(2)
Senada Smajic and Sergio Ermacora (2007)rdquo Poverty amongst female-
headed households in Bosnia and Herzegovina An empirical analysisrdquo
South East European Journal of Economics and Business vol2 issue 1
pages69-88
Shanthi K (1994) Growing Incidence of Female Household Headship
Causes and Cure Social Action (New Delhi) 44 17-33
Sharmishtha Basu and Shiv (2008) in their study on ldquoWork Status and
Health of Women A Comparative Study of Northern and Southern
States of Rural IndiardquoWorld Health and population 10(2)
Shaw S (1991) The conflicting experiences of lone parent-hood In M
Hardey amp G Crow (Eds) Lone parenthood (p 143-155) Toronto
University of Toronto Press
Sheryl L Olson and Victoria Banyard (1993) Stop the World So I Can
Get off for a While Sources of Daily Stress in the Lives of Low-
Income Single Mothers of Young Childrenrdquo Journal of Family
Relations v42 n1 January
ShinjuV (2006)rdquoWomen Headed Households A study of the socio
economic status and survival strategiesrdquo Thesis submitted by
University of Kerala foe the degree of Doctor of philosophy
226
Short Kathleen and Thesia I Garner (2002) Experimental Poverty
Measures Un- der Alternate Treatments of Medical Out-of-Pocket
Expenditure An Application of the Consumer Expenditure Survey
Working Paper No 358 US Bureau of Labor Statistics
Shubhashis Gangopadhyay And Wilima Wadhw (2003) bdquoAre Indian
Female-Headed Households Morevulnerable To Poverty India
Development Foundation November 2003
ShylajaL (2002) ldquoLabour Emigration And Its Socio Economic And
Demographic Impact In Keralardquo Thesis submitted to the University of
Kerala for the award of the Degree of Doctor of philosophy
Sigle-Rushton Wendy and Sara McLanahan (2002) For Richer or
Poorer Marriage as Poverty Alleviation in the United States
Population 57(3) 509-528
Simmons AB (1984) Migration and rural development conceptual
approaches research findings and policy issues in Population
Distribution Migration and Development Proceedings of the Expert
Group on Population Distribution Migration and Development (New
York United Nations)
Simon and Appleton (1996) Women-Headed Households and Household
Welfare An Empirical Deconstruction for Ugandardquo journal World
Development Vol24 issue12 Pages (1811-1827)
Simon RW (1995) ldquoGender Multiple Roles Role Meanings and Mental
Healthrdquo Journal of Health and Social Behavior 36 182-94
Simons PCM HAJ Versteegh A W Jongbloed P AKemme P
Slump K D Bos MGE Wolters R F Beudekerand G J
Verschoor (1990) Improvement of phosphorus availability by
microbial phytase in broilers and pigs Br J Nutr 64525ndash540
Simons R L Johnson C Conger R D amp Elder G Jr (1998) A test
of latent trait versus life-course perspec- tives on the stability of
adolescent antisocial behavior Criminology 36 217-242
227
Singh ML (1997) Emigration from Nepal Some Major issues ldquoNepal
Population and Development JournalJul37-47
Singh Indu B (2000) ldquoBihar Yet to Reap the Bonus of Her Backwardnessrdquo
E-Seminar on Poverty in Bihar wwwbihartimescom
Smith Ken R and Cathleen DZick (1986) ldquoThe Incidence of Poverty
Among the Recently Widowhood Mediating Factors in the Life
Courserdquo Journal of Marriage and the Family 48619-30
Standing Guy (1999a)rdquoGlobal Feminization through Flexible Labor a
Theme Re- visited World Development 27503-602
Stegelin DAampFrankel J (1993) Families of lower-income employed
mothers In J Frankel (Ed) The employed mother and the family
context (pp 115-131) New York Springer Publishing Company
Storey D J (2004) Racial and Gender Discrimination in the Micro Firms
Credit Market Evidence from Trinidad and Tobago Small Business
Economics 23(5) 401ndash22
Suchet M amp Barling J (1986) Employed mothers Interrole conflict
spouse support and marital functioning Journal of Occupational
Behaviour 7 167- 178
Sumit Mazumdar and M Guruswamyin (2006) ldquoFemale Labour Force
Participation in Kerala Problems and Prospects [Unpublished] 2006
Presented at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of
America Los Angeles California March 30 - April 1 2006 26 p
Sunny (2006) Problems of Single women in KeralardquoSponsored byNational
Commission for Women Govt of India
Suresh kumar and Lini (2010) ldquoNutritional status of women in kerlaa
comprehensive study of male and female headed householdsrdquo Journal
of Human Development Volume 2No1 June
Swarup H and Rajput P (1994) ldquoWomen and Globalization reflections
options and Strategiesrdquo Ashok Publications New Delhi
228
Tanzima Zohra Habib (2010) bdquoSocio-Psychological Status of Female Heads
of Households in Rajshahi City Bangladesh‟ Journal of Anthropology
vol 6 n 2
Taylor Matthew J Michelle J Moran-Taylor and Debra Rodman Ruiz
( 2006) ldquoLand Ethnic and Gender Change Transnational Migration
and its Effect on Guatemalan Lives and Landscapes Geoforum 3741-
61
The ILO Thesaurus (2005) Retrieved September 16 2009International
Labour organization (ILO) Web Site
httpwwwiloorgpubliclibdocILO-Thesaurus english tr3578htm
The World Bank (2001) Engendering Development - Through Gender
Equality in Rights Resources and Voice World Bank Washington
DC
Thoits A Peggy (1995) ldquoStress Coping and Social Support Processes
Where Are We What NextrdquoJournal of Health and Social Behavior
Vol 35 Extra Issue Forty Years of Medical Sociology The State of
the Art and Directions for the Future pp 53- 79
Thomson Elizabeth Thomas L Hanson and Sara S McLanahan
(1994) ldquoFamily Structure and ChildWell-Being Economic Resources
Vs Parental Behaviorsrdquo SocialForces 73221-242
Timothy J Biblarz and Greg Gottainer (2000)rdquo Family Structure and
Childrens Success A Comparison of Widowed and Divorced Single-
Mother Familiesrdquo Journal of Marriage and the Family Vol 62 No 2
(May 2000) pp 533-548 Published by National Council on Family
Relations Stable
Tinker Irene ed (1990) Persistent Inequalities Women and World
Development New York Oxford University Press
Turner A Heather (2006 ) ldquoStress Social Resources and Depression among
Never-Married and Divorced Rural Mothersrdquo Rural Sociology
Volume71issue3Pages479-504September
229
Turner R J Lloyd D A amp Roszell P (1999) Personal resources and the
social distribution of depression American Journal of Community
Psychology 27 643ndash672
US Bureau of the Census (2001) People and families in poverty by
selected characteristics 1999 and 2000 Retrieved on February 4
2002 from
httpwwwcensusgovhhespovertypoverty00tables00html
UNDP (2001) Human Dvelopment Report2001 Making New Technologies
work for human development ldquo New York Oxford University Press
Unisa Sayeed and Datta Nitin (2005)rdquo Female Headship In India Levels
Differentials And Impactrdquo iussp2005princetonedu downloadaspx
submission Id=50705
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia
(UNESCWA) (1995b) Women and Poverty in the ESCWA Region
Issues and Concerns Study prepared by C Fawzi El-Solh New York
United Nations (1995) The Worlds Women 1995 Trends and Statistics
New York United Nations
United NationsDepartment for Economic and Social Information
(UNDESI) (1991) The World‟s Women 1970-1990 Trends and
Statistics Department for Economic and Social Information Social
Statistics and Indicators Series K no 8 New York
United NationsDepartment for Economic and Social Information
(UNDESI) (1997) Handbook for Producing National Statistics
Reports on Women and Men Statistics Division New York
United Nations (2005) The Millennium Development Goals Report 2005
New YorkUnited Nations
Van Meter M J amp Agronow S J (1982) The stress of multiple roles
The case for role strain among married college women Family
Relations 31 131- 138
230
Vardhan Ranjay (1999)Female Headed households in Patriarchal
SocietyIndian Publishers‟ Distributors156-DKamala Nagar Delhi-
110 007
Varghese Sheela (1990) ldquo Female-Supported Householdsrdquo Economic and
Political Weekly Vol 31 No 22 Jun 1 p 1290
Varley A (1996) ldquoWomen Heading Households Some More Equal Than
Otherrdquo World Development 24(3) 505-520
Villarreal Andreacutes and Heeju Shin ( 2008) Unraveling the Economic
Paradox of Female-Headed Households in Mexico The Role of Family
Networks Sociological Quarterly 49(3) 565ndash595
Visaria P and Visaria L (1985) ldquoIndian Households with Female Heads
Their Incidence Characteristics and Levels of Livingrdquo in Jain D and
Banerjee N (ed) Tyranny of the Household New Delhi Shakti Books
Vonnie C McLoyd Toby Epstein Jayaratne Rosario Ceballo Julio
Borquez (1994)rdquo Unemployment and Work Interruption among
African American Single Mothers Effects on Parenting and
Adolescent Socio emotional Functioningrdquo Child Development Vol
65 No 2 Children and Poverty) pp 562-589
Vu Manh Loi (1996) Female- Headed Households in Vietnam Working
Paper No 96-11 Seattle WA University of Washington Seattle
Population Research Center
World Bank (2007) Global Monitoring Report Millennium Development
Goals Confronting the Challenges of Gender Equality and Fragile
States World Bank Washington DC
Waldron I Weiss CC and Hughes ME(1998) ldquoInteracting effects of
multiple roles on womens healthrdquoJournal of Health Social behaviour
Sep39(3)216-36
231
Wallerstein J S amp Kelly J (1980) Surviving the breakup How children
and parents cope with divorce New York Basic Books
WaltersV P Mcdonoughand L Strohschein (2002) ldquoChronic stress and
the social patterning of womens health in Canada social sciences and
medicine Mar54(5)767-82
Warren J A amp Johnson P J (1995) The impact of workplace support on
work-family role strain Family Relations 44 163-169
Weissman MM Leaf PJ amp Bruce ML (1987) Single parent women
SocialPsychiatry 22 29-36
Wheaton Blair ( 1994) ldquoSampling the Stress Universerdquo Pp 77ndash114 in
Stress and Mental Health Contemporary Issues and Prospects for the
Future edited by W Avison and I Gotlib New York Plenum
White L K A Booth and JN Edwards (1986) ldquoChildren and Marital
Happiness Why the Negative Correlationrdquo Journal of Family Issues 7
131-147
Wijnberg M H amp Reding K M (1999) Reclaiming a stress focus the
hassles of rural poor single mothers Families in Society 80(5) 506ndash
515
Willicox S (2003) ldquoThe Effect of Widowhood on Physical and Mental
Healthrdquo Health Behaviour and Health Outcome 22(5) 513-522
Wojtkiewicz RA SS McLanahan and I Garfinkel (1990) The
Growth of Families Headed by Women 1950-1980 Demo- graphy
2719-30
World Bank (2001a) World Bank Policy Research Report 2001
Engendering Development Through Gender Equality in Rights
Resources and Voice Oxford University Press New York
232
World Bank (2007) Global Monitoring Report Millennium Development
Goals Confronting the Challenges of Gender Equality and Fragile
States World Bank Washington DC
Zachariah Mathew and Irudaya Rajan (2007) ldquoMigrationRemittances
And Employment Short-term Trends and Longterm
ImplicationsrdquoDecember Centre for Develoment Studies
WP395ThiruvananathapuramKerala
Zachariah KC ET Mathew and Irudaya Rajan S (1999)rdquoKerala
Migrants in India and Abroad Working Paper 1CDS Studies on
International Migration from Keral state in Indiaed by Zachariah etal
Centre for Develoment Studies Thiruvananathapuram Kerala
Zachariah KC Mathew ET Rajan S I (2001) Social economic and
demographic consequences of migration on Kerala International
Migration 2001 39(2)43ndash67
Zahoor Hussain Javed and Ayesha Asif (2011) Female households and
poverty A case study of Faisalabad District International Journal of
Peace and Development Studies Vol 2(2) pp 37-44 February 2011
Zheng Wu Feng Hou and Christoph M Schimmele (2008) ldquoFamily
Structure and Children‟s Psychosocial Outcomesrdquo Journal of Family
Issues Volume 29 Number 12 December
225
SarahJ Schoppe-SullivanAlice C Schermerhorn and E Mark Cummings
(2007) Marital Conflict and Children‟s Adjustment Evaluation of the
Parenting Process Modelrdquo Journal of Marriage and Family Volume
69 Issue 5 Pages 1118-1134
Schultz T Paul( 2001) ldquoWomen‟s Role in the Agricultural Household
Bargaining and Human Capital Investmentsrdquo Agricultural and
Resource Economics Handbook Vol No1
SekharTV (1993 ) ldquoMigration selectively from rural areas Evidence from
KeralardquoDemograhy Inidia22(2)
Senada Smajic and Sergio Ermacora (2007)rdquo Poverty amongst female-
headed households in Bosnia and Herzegovina An empirical analysisrdquo
South East European Journal of Economics and Business vol2 issue 1
pages69-88
Shanthi K (1994) Growing Incidence of Female Household Headship
Causes and Cure Social Action (New Delhi) 44 17-33
Sharmishtha Basu and Shiv (2008) in their study on ldquoWork Status and
Health of Women A Comparative Study of Northern and Southern
States of Rural IndiardquoWorld Health and population 10(2)
Shaw S (1991) The conflicting experiences of lone parent-hood In M
Hardey amp G Crow (Eds) Lone parenthood (p 143-155) Toronto
University of Toronto Press
Sheryl L Olson and Victoria Banyard (1993) Stop the World So I Can
Get off for a While Sources of Daily Stress in the Lives of Low-
Income Single Mothers of Young Childrenrdquo Journal of Family
Relations v42 n1 January
ShinjuV (2006)rdquoWomen Headed Households A study of the socio
economic status and survival strategiesrdquo Thesis submitted by
University of Kerala foe the degree of Doctor of philosophy
226
Short Kathleen and Thesia I Garner (2002) Experimental Poverty
Measures Un- der Alternate Treatments of Medical Out-of-Pocket
Expenditure An Application of the Consumer Expenditure Survey
Working Paper No 358 US Bureau of Labor Statistics
Shubhashis Gangopadhyay And Wilima Wadhw (2003) bdquoAre Indian
Female-Headed Households Morevulnerable To Poverty India
Development Foundation November 2003
ShylajaL (2002) ldquoLabour Emigration And Its Socio Economic And
Demographic Impact In Keralardquo Thesis submitted to the University of
Kerala for the award of the Degree of Doctor of philosophy
Sigle-Rushton Wendy and Sara McLanahan (2002) For Richer or
Poorer Marriage as Poverty Alleviation in the United States
Population 57(3) 509-528
Simmons AB (1984) Migration and rural development conceptual
approaches research findings and policy issues in Population
Distribution Migration and Development Proceedings of the Expert
Group on Population Distribution Migration and Development (New
York United Nations)
Simon and Appleton (1996) Women-Headed Households and Household
Welfare An Empirical Deconstruction for Ugandardquo journal World
Development Vol24 issue12 Pages (1811-1827)
Simon RW (1995) ldquoGender Multiple Roles Role Meanings and Mental
Healthrdquo Journal of Health and Social Behavior 36 182-94
Simons PCM HAJ Versteegh A W Jongbloed P AKemme P
Slump K D Bos MGE Wolters R F Beudekerand G J
Verschoor (1990) Improvement of phosphorus availability by
microbial phytase in broilers and pigs Br J Nutr 64525ndash540
Simons R L Johnson C Conger R D amp Elder G Jr (1998) A test
of latent trait versus life-course perspec- tives on the stability of
adolescent antisocial behavior Criminology 36 217-242
227
Singh ML (1997) Emigration from Nepal Some Major issues ldquoNepal
Population and Development JournalJul37-47
Singh Indu B (2000) ldquoBihar Yet to Reap the Bonus of Her Backwardnessrdquo
E-Seminar on Poverty in Bihar wwwbihartimescom
Smith Ken R and Cathleen DZick (1986) ldquoThe Incidence of Poverty
Among the Recently Widowhood Mediating Factors in the Life
Courserdquo Journal of Marriage and the Family 48619-30
Standing Guy (1999a)rdquoGlobal Feminization through Flexible Labor a
Theme Re- visited World Development 27503-602
Stegelin DAampFrankel J (1993) Families of lower-income employed
mothers In J Frankel (Ed) The employed mother and the family
context (pp 115-131) New York Springer Publishing Company
Storey D J (2004) Racial and Gender Discrimination in the Micro Firms
Credit Market Evidence from Trinidad and Tobago Small Business
Economics 23(5) 401ndash22
Suchet M amp Barling J (1986) Employed mothers Interrole conflict
spouse support and marital functioning Journal of Occupational
Behaviour 7 167- 178
Sumit Mazumdar and M Guruswamyin (2006) ldquoFemale Labour Force
Participation in Kerala Problems and Prospects [Unpublished] 2006
Presented at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of
America Los Angeles California March 30 - April 1 2006 26 p
Sunny (2006) Problems of Single women in KeralardquoSponsored byNational
Commission for Women Govt of India
Suresh kumar and Lini (2010) ldquoNutritional status of women in kerlaa
comprehensive study of male and female headed householdsrdquo Journal
of Human Development Volume 2No1 June
Swarup H and Rajput P (1994) ldquoWomen and Globalization reflections
options and Strategiesrdquo Ashok Publications New Delhi
228
Tanzima Zohra Habib (2010) bdquoSocio-Psychological Status of Female Heads
of Households in Rajshahi City Bangladesh‟ Journal of Anthropology
vol 6 n 2
Taylor Matthew J Michelle J Moran-Taylor and Debra Rodman Ruiz
( 2006) ldquoLand Ethnic and Gender Change Transnational Migration
and its Effect on Guatemalan Lives and Landscapes Geoforum 3741-
61
The ILO Thesaurus (2005) Retrieved September 16 2009International
Labour organization (ILO) Web Site
httpwwwiloorgpubliclibdocILO-Thesaurus english tr3578htm
The World Bank (2001) Engendering Development - Through Gender
Equality in Rights Resources and Voice World Bank Washington
DC
Thoits A Peggy (1995) ldquoStress Coping and Social Support Processes
Where Are We What NextrdquoJournal of Health and Social Behavior
Vol 35 Extra Issue Forty Years of Medical Sociology The State of
the Art and Directions for the Future pp 53- 79
Thomson Elizabeth Thomas L Hanson and Sara S McLanahan
(1994) ldquoFamily Structure and ChildWell-Being Economic Resources
Vs Parental Behaviorsrdquo SocialForces 73221-242
Timothy J Biblarz and Greg Gottainer (2000)rdquo Family Structure and
Childrens Success A Comparison of Widowed and Divorced Single-
Mother Familiesrdquo Journal of Marriage and the Family Vol 62 No 2
(May 2000) pp 533-548 Published by National Council on Family
Relations Stable
Tinker Irene ed (1990) Persistent Inequalities Women and World
Development New York Oxford University Press
Turner A Heather (2006 ) ldquoStress Social Resources and Depression among
Never-Married and Divorced Rural Mothersrdquo Rural Sociology
Volume71issue3Pages479-504September
229
Turner R J Lloyd D A amp Roszell P (1999) Personal resources and the
social distribution of depression American Journal of Community
Psychology 27 643ndash672
US Bureau of the Census (2001) People and families in poverty by
selected characteristics 1999 and 2000 Retrieved on February 4
2002 from
httpwwwcensusgovhhespovertypoverty00tables00html
UNDP (2001) Human Dvelopment Report2001 Making New Technologies
work for human development ldquo New York Oxford University Press
Unisa Sayeed and Datta Nitin (2005)rdquo Female Headship In India Levels
Differentials And Impactrdquo iussp2005princetonedu downloadaspx
submission Id=50705
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia
(UNESCWA) (1995b) Women and Poverty in the ESCWA Region
Issues and Concerns Study prepared by C Fawzi El-Solh New York
United Nations (1995) The Worlds Women 1995 Trends and Statistics
New York United Nations
United NationsDepartment for Economic and Social Information
(UNDESI) (1991) The World‟s Women 1970-1990 Trends and
Statistics Department for Economic and Social Information Social
Statistics and Indicators Series K no 8 New York
United NationsDepartment for Economic and Social Information
(UNDESI) (1997) Handbook for Producing National Statistics
Reports on Women and Men Statistics Division New York
United Nations (2005) The Millennium Development Goals Report 2005
New YorkUnited Nations
Van Meter M J amp Agronow S J (1982) The stress of multiple roles
The case for role strain among married college women Family
Relations 31 131- 138
230
Vardhan Ranjay (1999)Female Headed households in Patriarchal
SocietyIndian Publishers‟ Distributors156-DKamala Nagar Delhi-
110 007
Varghese Sheela (1990) ldquo Female-Supported Householdsrdquo Economic and
Political Weekly Vol 31 No 22 Jun 1 p 1290
Varley A (1996) ldquoWomen Heading Households Some More Equal Than
Otherrdquo World Development 24(3) 505-520
Villarreal Andreacutes and Heeju Shin ( 2008) Unraveling the Economic
Paradox of Female-Headed Households in Mexico The Role of Family
Networks Sociological Quarterly 49(3) 565ndash595
Visaria P and Visaria L (1985) ldquoIndian Households with Female Heads
Their Incidence Characteristics and Levels of Livingrdquo in Jain D and
Banerjee N (ed) Tyranny of the Household New Delhi Shakti Books
Vonnie C McLoyd Toby Epstein Jayaratne Rosario Ceballo Julio
Borquez (1994)rdquo Unemployment and Work Interruption among
African American Single Mothers Effects on Parenting and
Adolescent Socio emotional Functioningrdquo Child Development Vol
65 No 2 Children and Poverty) pp 562-589
Vu Manh Loi (1996) Female- Headed Households in Vietnam Working
Paper No 96-11 Seattle WA University of Washington Seattle
Population Research Center
World Bank (2007) Global Monitoring Report Millennium Development
Goals Confronting the Challenges of Gender Equality and Fragile
States World Bank Washington DC
Waldron I Weiss CC and Hughes ME(1998) ldquoInteracting effects of
multiple roles on womens healthrdquoJournal of Health Social behaviour
Sep39(3)216-36
231
Wallerstein J S amp Kelly J (1980) Surviving the breakup How children
and parents cope with divorce New York Basic Books
WaltersV P Mcdonoughand L Strohschein (2002) ldquoChronic stress and
the social patterning of womens health in Canada social sciences and
medicine Mar54(5)767-82
Warren J A amp Johnson P J (1995) The impact of workplace support on
work-family role strain Family Relations 44 163-169
Weissman MM Leaf PJ amp Bruce ML (1987) Single parent women
SocialPsychiatry 22 29-36
Wheaton Blair ( 1994) ldquoSampling the Stress Universerdquo Pp 77ndash114 in
Stress and Mental Health Contemporary Issues and Prospects for the
Future edited by W Avison and I Gotlib New York Plenum
White L K A Booth and JN Edwards (1986) ldquoChildren and Marital
Happiness Why the Negative Correlationrdquo Journal of Family Issues 7
131-147
Wijnberg M H amp Reding K M (1999) Reclaiming a stress focus the
hassles of rural poor single mothers Families in Society 80(5) 506ndash
515
Willicox S (2003) ldquoThe Effect of Widowhood on Physical and Mental
Healthrdquo Health Behaviour and Health Outcome 22(5) 513-522
Wojtkiewicz RA SS McLanahan and I Garfinkel (1990) The
Growth of Families Headed by Women 1950-1980 Demo- graphy
2719-30
World Bank (2001a) World Bank Policy Research Report 2001
Engendering Development Through Gender Equality in Rights
Resources and Voice Oxford University Press New York
232
World Bank (2007) Global Monitoring Report Millennium Development
Goals Confronting the Challenges of Gender Equality and Fragile
States World Bank Washington DC
Zachariah Mathew and Irudaya Rajan (2007) ldquoMigrationRemittances
And Employment Short-term Trends and Longterm
ImplicationsrdquoDecember Centre for Develoment Studies
WP395ThiruvananathapuramKerala
Zachariah KC ET Mathew and Irudaya Rajan S (1999)rdquoKerala
Migrants in India and Abroad Working Paper 1CDS Studies on
International Migration from Keral state in Indiaed by Zachariah etal
Centre for Develoment Studies Thiruvananathapuram Kerala
Zachariah KC Mathew ET Rajan S I (2001) Social economic and
demographic consequences of migration on Kerala International
Migration 2001 39(2)43ndash67
Zahoor Hussain Javed and Ayesha Asif (2011) Female households and
poverty A case study of Faisalabad District International Journal of
Peace and Development Studies Vol 2(2) pp 37-44 February 2011
Zheng Wu Feng Hou and Christoph M Schimmele (2008) ldquoFamily
Structure and Children‟s Psychosocial Outcomesrdquo Journal of Family
Issues Volume 29 Number 12 December
226
Short Kathleen and Thesia I Garner (2002) Experimental Poverty
Measures Un- der Alternate Treatments of Medical Out-of-Pocket
Expenditure An Application of the Consumer Expenditure Survey
Working Paper No 358 US Bureau of Labor Statistics
Shubhashis Gangopadhyay And Wilima Wadhw (2003) bdquoAre Indian
Female-Headed Households Morevulnerable To Poverty India
Development Foundation November 2003
ShylajaL (2002) ldquoLabour Emigration And Its Socio Economic And
Demographic Impact In Keralardquo Thesis submitted to the University of
Kerala for the award of the Degree of Doctor of philosophy
Sigle-Rushton Wendy and Sara McLanahan (2002) For Richer or
Poorer Marriage as Poverty Alleviation in the United States
Population 57(3) 509-528
Simmons AB (1984) Migration and rural development conceptual
approaches research findings and policy issues in Population
Distribution Migration and Development Proceedings of the Expert
Group on Population Distribution Migration and Development (New
York United Nations)
Simon and Appleton (1996) Women-Headed Households and Household
Welfare An Empirical Deconstruction for Ugandardquo journal World
Development Vol24 issue12 Pages (1811-1827)
Simon RW (1995) ldquoGender Multiple Roles Role Meanings and Mental
Healthrdquo Journal of Health and Social Behavior 36 182-94
Simons PCM HAJ Versteegh A W Jongbloed P AKemme P
Slump K D Bos MGE Wolters R F Beudekerand G J
Verschoor (1990) Improvement of phosphorus availability by
microbial phytase in broilers and pigs Br J Nutr 64525ndash540
Simons R L Johnson C Conger R D amp Elder G Jr (1998) A test
of latent trait versus life-course perspec- tives on the stability of
adolescent antisocial behavior Criminology 36 217-242
227
Singh ML (1997) Emigration from Nepal Some Major issues ldquoNepal
Population and Development JournalJul37-47
Singh Indu B (2000) ldquoBihar Yet to Reap the Bonus of Her Backwardnessrdquo
E-Seminar on Poverty in Bihar wwwbihartimescom
Smith Ken R and Cathleen DZick (1986) ldquoThe Incidence of Poverty
Among the Recently Widowhood Mediating Factors in the Life
Courserdquo Journal of Marriage and the Family 48619-30
Standing Guy (1999a)rdquoGlobal Feminization through Flexible Labor a
Theme Re- visited World Development 27503-602
Stegelin DAampFrankel J (1993) Families of lower-income employed
mothers In J Frankel (Ed) The employed mother and the family
context (pp 115-131) New York Springer Publishing Company
Storey D J (2004) Racial and Gender Discrimination in the Micro Firms
Credit Market Evidence from Trinidad and Tobago Small Business
Economics 23(5) 401ndash22
Suchet M amp Barling J (1986) Employed mothers Interrole conflict
spouse support and marital functioning Journal of Occupational
Behaviour 7 167- 178
Sumit Mazumdar and M Guruswamyin (2006) ldquoFemale Labour Force
Participation in Kerala Problems and Prospects [Unpublished] 2006
Presented at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of
America Los Angeles California March 30 - April 1 2006 26 p
Sunny (2006) Problems of Single women in KeralardquoSponsored byNational
Commission for Women Govt of India
Suresh kumar and Lini (2010) ldquoNutritional status of women in kerlaa
comprehensive study of male and female headed householdsrdquo Journal
of Human Development Volume 2No1 June
Swarup H and Rajput P (1994) ldquoWomen and Globalization reflections
options and Strategiesrdquo Ashok Publications New Delhi
228
Tanzima Zohra Habib (2010) bdquoSocio-Psychological Status of Female Heads
of Households in Rajshahi City Bangladesh‟ Journal of Anthropology
vol 6 n 2
Taylor Matthew J Michelle J Moran-Taylor and Debra Rodman Ruiz
( 2006) ldquoLand Ethnic and Gender Change Transnational Migration
and its Effect on Guatemalan Lives and Landscapes Geoforum 3741-
61
The ILO Thesaurus (2005) Retrieved September 16 2009International
Labour organization (ILO) Web Site
httpwwwiloorgpubliclibdocILO-Thesaurus english tr3578htm
The World Bank (2001) Engendering Development - Through Gender
Equality in Rights Resources and Voice World Bank Washington
DC
Thoits A Peggy (1995) ldquoStress Coping and Social Support Processes
Where Are We What NextrdquoJournal of Health and Social Behavior
Vol 35 Extra Issue Forty Years of Medical Sociology The State of
the Art and Directions for the Future pp 53- 79
Thomson Elizabeth Thomas L Hanson and Sara S McLanahan
(1994) ldquoFamily Structure and ChildWell-Being Economic Resources
Vs Parental Behaviorsrdquo SocialForces 73221-242
Timothy J Biblarz and Greg Gottainer (2000)rdquo Family Structure and
Childrens Success A Comparison of Widowed and Divorced Single-
Mother Familiesrdquo Journal of Marriage and the Family Vol 62 No 2
(May 2000) pp 533-548 Published by National Council on Family
Relations Stable
Tinker Irene ed (1990) Persistent Inequalities Women and World
Development New York Oxford University Press
Turner A Heather (2006 ) ldquoStress Social Resources and Depression among
Never-Married and Divorced Rural Mothersrdquo Rural Sociology
Volume71issue3Pages479-504September
229
Turner R J Lloyd D A amp Roszell P (1999) Personal resources and the
social distribution of depression American Journal of Community
Psychology 27 643ndash672
US Bureau of the Census (2001) People and families in poverty by
selected characteristics 1999 and 2000 Retrieved on February 4
2002 from
httpwwwcensusgovhhespovertypoverty00tables00html
UNDP (2001) Human Dvelopment Report2001 Making New Technologies
work for human development ldquo New York Oxford University Press
Unisa Sayeed and Datta Nitin (2005)rdquo Female Headship In India Levels
Differentials And Impactrdquo iussp2005princetonedu downloadaspx
submission Id=50705
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia
(UNESCWA) (1995b) Women and Poverty in the ESCWA Region
Issues and Concerns Study prepared by C Fawzi El-Solh New York
United Nations (1995) The Worlds Women 1995 Trends and Statistics
New York United Nations
United NationsDepartment for Economic and Social Information
(UNDESI) (1991) The World‟s Women 1970-1990 Trends and
Statistics Department for Economic and Social Information Social
Statistics and Indicators Series K no 8 New York
United NationsDepartment for Economic and Social Information
(UNDESI) (1997) Handbook for Producing National Statistics
Reports on Women and Men Statistics Division New York
United Nations (2005) The Millennium Development Goals Report 2005
New YorkUnited Nations
Van Meter M J amp Agronow S J (1982) The stress of multiple roles
The case for role strain among married college women Family
Relations 31 131- 138
230
Vardhan Ranjay (1999)Female Headed households in Patriarchal
SocietyIndian Publishers‟ Distributors156-DKamala Nagar Delhi-
110 007
Varghese Sheela (1990) ldquo Female-Supported Householdsrdquo Economic and
Political Weekly Vol 31 No 22 Jun 1 p 1290
Varley A (1996) ldquoWomen Heading Households Some More Equal Than
Otherrdquo World Development 24(3) 505-520
Villarreal Andreacutes and Heeju Shin ( 2008) Unraveling the Economic
Paradox of Female-Headed Households in Mexico The Role of Family
Networks Sociological Quarterly 49(3) 565ndash595
Visaria P and Visaria L (1985) ldquoIndian Households with Female Heads
Their Incidence Characteristics and Levels of Livingrdquo in Jain D and
Banerjee N (ed) Tyranny of the Household New Delhi Shakti Books
Vonnie C McLoyd Toby Epstein Jayaratne Rosario Ceballo Julio
Borquez (1994)rdquo Unemployment and Work Interruption among
African American Single Mothers Effects on Parenting and
Adolescent Socio emotional Functioningrdquo Child Development Vol
65 No 2 Children and Poverty) pp 562-589
Vu Manh Loi (1996) Female- Headed Households in Vietnam Working
Paper No 96-11 Seattle WA University of Washington Seattle
Population Research Center
World Bank (2007) Global Monitoring Report Millennium Development
Goals Confronting the Challenges of Gender Equality and Fragile
States World Bank Washington DC
Waldron I Weiss CC and Hughes ME(1998) ldquoInteracting effects of
multiple roles on womens healthrdquoJournal of Health Social behaviour
Sep39(3)216-36
231
Wallerstein J S amp Kelly J (1980) Surviving the breakup How children
and parents cope with divorce New York Basic Books
WaltersV P Mcdonoughand L Strohschein (2002) ldquoChronic stress and
the social patterning of womens health in Canada social sciences and
medicine Mar54(5)767-82
Warren J A amp Johnson P J (1995) The impact of workplace support on
work-family role strain Family Relations 44 163-169
Weissman MM Leaf PJ amp Bruce ML (1987) Single parent women
SocialPsychiatry 22 29-36
Wheaton Blair ( 1994) ldquoSampling the Stress Universerdquo Pp 77ndash114 in
Stress and Mental Health Contemporary Issues and Prospects for the
Future edited by W Avison and I Gotlib New York Plenum
White L K A Booth and JN Edwards (1986) ldquoChildren and Marital
Happiness Why the Negative Correlationrdquo Journal of Family Issues 7
131-147
Wijnberg M H amp Reding K M (1999) Reclaiming a stress focus the
hassles of rural poor single mothers Families in Society 80(5) 506ndash
515
Willicox S (2003) ldquoThe Effect of Widowhood on Physical and Mental
Healthrdquo Health Behaviour and Health Outcome 22(5) 513-522
Wojtkiewicz RA SS McLanahan and I Garfinkel (1990) The
Growth of Families Headed by Women 1950-1980 Demo- graphy
2719-30
World Bank (2001a) World Bank Policy Research Report 2001
Engendering Development Through Gender Equality in Rights
Resources and Voice Oxford University Press New York
232
World Bank (2007) Global Monitoring Report Millennium Development
Goals Confronting the Challenges of Gender Equality and Fragile
States World Bank Washington DC
Zachariah Mathew and Irudaya Rajan (2007) ldquoMigrationRemittances
And Employment Short-term Trends and Longterm
ImplicationsrdquoDecember Centre for Develoment Studies
WP395ThiruvananathapuramKerala
Zachariah KC ET Mathew and Irudaya Rajan S (1999)rdquoKerala
Migrants in India and Abroad Working Paper 1CDS Studies on
International Migration from Keral state in Indiaed by Zachariah etal
Centre for Develoment Studies Thiruvananathapuram Kerala
Zachariah KC Mathew ET Rajan S I (2001) Social economic and
demographic consequences of migration on Kerala International
Migration 2001 39(2)43ndash67
Zahoor Hussain Javed and Ayesha Asif (2011) Female households and
poverty A case study of Faisalabad District International Journal of
Peace and Development Studies Vol 2(2) pp 37-44 February 2011
Zheng Wu Feng Hou and Christoph M Schimmele (2008) ldquoFamily
Structure and Children‟s Psychosocial Outcomesrdquo Journal of Family
Issues Volume 29 Number 12 December
227
Singh ML (1997) Emigration from Nepal Some Major issues ldquoNepal
Population and Development JournalJul37-47
Singh Indu B (2000) ldquoBihar Yet to Reap the Bonus of Her Backwardnessrdquo
E-Seminar on Poverty in Bihar wwwbihartimescom
Smith Ken R and Cathleen DZick (1986) ldquoThe Incidence of Poverty
Among the Recently Widowhood Mediating Factors in the Life
Courserdquo Journal of Marriage and the Family 48619-30
Standing Guy (1999a)rdquoGlobal Feminization through Flexible Labor a
Theme Re- visited World Development 27503-602
Stegelin DAampFrankel J (1993) Families of lower-income employed
mothers In J Frankel (Ed) The employed mother and the family
context (pp 115-131) New York Springer Publishing Company
Storey D J (2004) Racial and Gender Discrimination in the Micro Firms
Credit Market Evidence from Trinidad and Tobago Small Business
Economics 23(5) 401ndash22
Suchet M amp Barling J (1986) Employed mothers Interrole conflict
spouse support and marital functioning Journal of Occupational
Behaviour 7 167- 178
Sumit Mazumdar and M Guruswamyin (2006) ldquoFemale Labour Force
Participation in Kerala Problems and Prospects [Unpublished] 2006
Presented at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of
America Los Angeles California March 30 - April 1 2006 26 p
Sunny (2006) Problems of Single women in KeralardquoSponsored byNational
Commission for Women Govt of India
Suresh kumar and Lini (2010) ldquoNutritional status of women in kerlaa
comprehensive study of male and female headed householdsrdquo Journal
of Human Development Volume 2No1 June
Swarup H and Rajput P (1994) ldquoWomen and Globalization reflections
options and Strategiesrdquo Ashok Publications New Delhi
228
Tanzima Zohra Habib (2010) bdquoSocio-Psychological Status of Female Heads
of Households in Rajshahi City Bangladesh‟ Journal of Anthropology
vol 6 n 2
Taylor Matthew J Michelle J Moran-Taylor and Debra Rodman Ruiz
( 2006) ldquoLand Ethnic and Gender Change Transnational Migration
and its Effect on Guatemalan Lives and Landscapes Geoforum 3741-
61
The ILO Thesaurus (2005) Retrieved September 16 2009International
Labour organization (ILO) Web Site
httpwwwiloorgpubliclibdocILO-Thesaurus english tr3578htm
The World Bank (2001) Engendering Development - Through Gender
Equality in Rights Resources and Voice World Bank Washington
DC
Thoits A Peggy (1995) ldquoStress Coping and Social Support Processes
Where Are We What NextrdquoJournal of Health and Social Behavior
Vol 35 Extra Issue Forty Years of Medical Sociology The State of
the Art and Directions for the Future pp 53- 79
Thomson Elizabeth Thomas L Hanson and Sara S McLanahan
(1994) ldquoFamily Structure and ChildWell-Being Economic Resources
Vs Parental Behaviorsrdquo SocialForces 73221-242
Timothy J Biblarz and Greg Gottainer (2000)rdquo Family Structure and
Childrens Success A Comparison of Widowed and Divorced Single-
Mother Familiesrdquo Journal of Marriage and the Family Vol 62 No 2
(May 2000) pp 533-548 Published by National Council on Family
Relations Stable
Tinker Irene ed (1990) Persistent Inequalities Women and World
Development New York Oxford University Press
Turner A Heather (2006 ) ldquoStress Social Resources and Depression among
Never-Married and Divorced Rural Mothersrdquo Rural Sociology
Volume71issue3Pages479-504September
229
Turner R J Lloyd D A amp Roszell P (1999) Personal resources and the
social distribution of depression American Journal of Community
Psychology 27 643ndash672
US Bureau of the Census (2001) People and families in poverty by
selected characteristics 1999 and 2000 Retrieved on February 4
2002 from
httpwwwcensusgovhhespovertypoverty00tables00html
UNDP (2001) Human Dvelopment Report2001 Making New Technologies
work for human development ldquo New York Oxford University Press
Unisa Sayeed and Datta Nitin (2005)rdquo Female Headship In India Levels
Differentials And Impactrdquo iussp2005princetonedu downloadaspx
submission Id=50705
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia
(UNESCWA) (1995b) Women and Poverty in the ESCWA Region
Issues and Concerns Study prepared by C Fawzi El-Solh New York
United Nations (1995) The Worlds Women 1995 Trends and Statistics
New York United Nations
United NationsDepartment for Economic and Social Information
(UNDESI) (1991) The World‟s Women 1970-1990 Trends and
Statistics Department for Economic and Social Information Social
Statistics and Indicators Series K no 8 New York
United NationsDepartment for Economic and Social Information
(UNDESI) (1997) Handbook for Producing National Statistics
Reports on Women and Men Statistics Division New York
United Nations (2005) The Millennium Development Goals Report 2005
New YorkUnited Nations
Van Meter M J amp Agronow S J (1982) The stress of multiple roles
The case for role strain among married college women Family
Relations 31 131- 138
230
Vardhan Ranjay (1999)Female Headed households in Patriarchal
SocietyIndian Publishers‟ Distributors156-DKamala Nagar Delhi-
110 007
Varghese Sheela (1990) ldquo Female-Supported Householdsrdquo Economic and
Political Weekly Vol 31 No 22 Jun 1 p 1290
Varley A (1996) ldquoWomen Heading Households Some More Equal Than
Otherrdquo World Development 24(3) 505-520
Villarreal Andreacutes and Heeju Shin ( 2008) Unraveling the Economic
Paradox of Female-Headed Households in Mexico The Role of Family
Networks Sociological Quarterly 49(3) 565ndash595
Visaria P and Visaria L (1985) ldquoIndian Households with Female Heads
Their Incidence Characteristics and Levels of Livingrdquo in Jain D and
Banerjee N (ed) Tyranny of the Household New Delhi Shakti Books
Vonnie C McLoyd Toby Epstein Jayaratne Rosario Ceballo Julio
Borquez (1994)rdquo Unemployment and Work Interruption among
African American Single Mothers Effects on Parenting and
Adolescent Socio emotional Functioningrdquo Child Development Vol
65 No 2 Children and Poverty) pp 562-589
Vu Manh Loi (1996) Female- Headed Households in Vietnam Working
Paper No 96-11 Seattle WA University of Washington Seattle
Population Research Center
World Bank (2007) Global Monitoring Report Millennium Development
Goals Confronting the Challenges of Gender Equality and Fragile
States World Bank Washington DC
Waldron I Weiss CC and Hughes ME(1998) ldquoInteracting effects of
multiple roles on womens healthrdquoJournal of Health Social behaviour
Sep39(3)216-36
231
Wallerstein J S amp Kelly J (1980) Surviving the breakup How children
and parents cope with divorce New York Basic Books
WaltersV P Mcdonoughand L Strohschein (2002) ldquoChronic stress and
the social patterning of womens health in Canada social sciences and
medicine Mar54(5)767-82
Warren J A amp Johnson P J (1995) The impact of workplace support on
work-family role strain Family Relations 44 163-169
Weissman MM Leaf PJ amp Bruce ML (1987) Single parent women
SocialPsychiatry 22 29-36
Wheaton Blair ( 1994) ldquoSampling the Stress Universerdquo Pp 77ndash114 in
Stress and Mental Health Contemporary Issues and Prospects for the
Future edited by W Avison and I Gotlib New York Plenum
White L K A Booth and JN Edwards (1986) ldquoChildren and Marital
Happiness Why the Negative Correlationrdquo Journal of Family Issues 7
131-147
Wijnberg M H amp Reding K M (1999) Reclaiming a stress focus the
hassles of rural poor single mothers Families in Society 80(5) 506ndash
515
Willicox S (2003) ldquoThe Effect of Widowhood on Physical and Mental
Healthrdquo Health Behaviour and Health Outcome 22(5) 513-522
Wojtkiewicz RA SS McLanahan and I Garfinkel (1990) The
Growth of Families Headed by Women 1950-1980 Demo- graphy
2719-30
World Bank (2001a) World Bank Policy Research Report 2001
Engendering Development Through Gender Equality in Rights
Resources and Voice Oxford University Press New York
232
World Bank (2007) Global Monitoring Report Millennium Development
Goals Confronting the Challenges of Gender Equality and Fragile
States World Bank Washington DC
Zachariah Mathew and Irudaya Rajan (2007) ldquoMigrationRemittances
And Employment Short-term Trends and Longterm
ImplicationsrdquoDecember Centre for Develoment Studies
WP395ThiruvananathapuramKerala
Zachariah KC ET Mathew and Irudaya Rajan S (1999)rdquoKerala
Migrants in India and Abroad Working Paper 1CDS Studies on
International Migration from Keral state in Indiaed by Zachariah etal
Centre for Develoment Studies Thiruvananathapuram Kerala
Zachariah KC Mathew ET Rajan S I (2001) Social economic and
demographic consequences of migration on Kerala International
Migration 2001 39(2)43ndash67
Zahoor Hussain Javed and Ayesha Asif (2011) Female households and
poverty A case study of Faisalabad District International Journal of
Peace and Development Studies Vol 2(2) pp 37-44 February 2011
Zheng Wu Feng Hou and Christoph M Schimmele (2008) ldquoFamily
Structure and Children‟s Psychosocial Outcomesrdquo Journal of Family
Issues Volume 29 Number 12 December
228
Tanzima Zohra Habib (2010) bdquoSocio-Psychological Status of Female Heads
of Households in Rajshahi City Bangladesh‟ Journal of Anthropology
vol 6 n 2
Taylor Matthew J Michelle J Moran-Taylor and Debra Rodman Ruiz
( 2006) ldquoLand Ethnic and Gender Change Transnational Migration
and its Effect on Guatemalan Lives and Landscapes Geoforum 3741-
61
The ILO Thesaurus (2005) Retrieved September 16 2009International
Labour organization (ILO) Web Site
httpwwwiloorgpubliclibdocILO-Thesaurus english tr3578htm
The World Bank (2001) Engendering Development - Through Gender
Equality in Rights Resources and Voice World Bank Washington
DC
Thoits A Peggy (1995) ldquoStress Coping and Social Support Processes
Where Are We What NextrdquoJournal of Health and Social Behavior
Vol 35 Extra Issue Forty Years of Medical Sociology The State of
the Art and Directions for the Future pp 53- 79
Thomson Elizabeth Thomas L Hanson and Sara S McLanahan
(1994) ldquoFamily Structure and ChildWell-Being Economic Resources
Vs Parental Behaviorsrdquo SocialForces 73221-242
Timothy J Biblarz and Greg Gottainer (2000)rdquo Family Structure and
Childrens Success A Comparison of Widowed and Divorced Single-
Mother Familiesrdquo Journal of Marriage and the Family Vol 62 No 2
(May 2000) pp 533-548 Published by National Council on Family
Relations Stable
Tinker Irene ed (1990) Persistent Inequalities Women and World
Development New York Oxford University Press
Turner A Heather (2006 ) ldquoStress Social Resources and Depression among
Never-Married and Divorced Rural Mothersrdquo Rural Sociology
Volume71issue3Pages479-504September
229
Turner R J Lloyd D A amp Roszell P (1999) Personal resources and the
social distribution of depression American Journal of Community
Psychology 27 643ndash672
US Bureau of the Census (2001) People and families in poverty by
selected characteristics 1999 and 2000 Retrieved on February 4
2002 from
httpwwwcensusgovhhespovertypoverty00tables00html
UNDP (2001) Human Dvelopment Report2001 Making New Technologies
work for human development ldquo New York Oxford University Press
Unisa Sayeed and Datta Nitin (2005)rdquo Female Headship In India Levels
Differentials And Impactrdquo iussp2005princetonedu downloadaspx
submission Id=50705
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia
(UNESCWA) (1995b) Women and Poverty in the ESCWA Region
Issues and Concerns Study prepared by C Fawzi El-Solh New York
United Nations (1995) The Worlds Women 1995 Trends and Statistics
New York United Nations
United NationsDepartment for Economic and Social Information
(UNDESI) (1991) The World‟s Women 1970-1990 Trends and
Statistics Department for Economic and Social Information Social
Statistics and Indicators Series K no 8 New York
United NationsDepartment for Economic and Social Information
(UNDESI) (1997) Handbook for Producing National Statistics
Reports on Women and Men Statistics Division New York
United Nations (2005) The Millennium Development Goals Report 2005
New YorkUnited Nations
Van Meter M J amp Agronow S J (1982) The stress of multiple roles
The case for role strain among married college women Family
Relations 31 131- 138
230
Vardhan Ranjay (1999)Female Headed households in Patriarchal
SocietyIndian Publishers‟ Distributors156-DKamala Nagar Delhi-
110 007
Varghese Sheela (1990) ldquo Female-Supported Householdsrdquo Economic and
Political Weekly Vol 31 No 22 Jun 1 p 1290
Varley A (1996) ldquoWomen Heading Households Some More Equal Than
Otherrdquo World Development 24(3) 505-520
Villarreal Andreacutes and Heeju Shin ( 2008) Unraveling the Economic
Paradox of Female-Headed Households in Mexico The Role of Family
Networks Sociological Quarterly 49(3) 565ndash595
Visaria P and Visaria L (1985) ldquoIndian Households with Female Heads
Their Incidence Characteristics and Levels of Livingrdquo in Jain D and
Banerjee N (ed) Tyranny of the Household New Delhi Shakti Books
Vonnie C McLoyd Toby Epstein Jayaratne Rosario Ceballo Julio
Borquez (1994)rdquo Unemployment and Work Interruption among
African American Single Mothers Effects on Parenting and
Adolescent Socio emotional Functioningrdquo Child Development Vol
65 No 2 Children and Poverty) pp 562-589
Vu Manh Loi (1996) Female- Headed Households in Vietnam Working
Paper No 96-11 Seattle WA University of Washington Seattle
Population Research Center
World Bank (2007) Global Monitoring Report Millennium Development
Goals Confronting the Challenges of Gender Equality and Fragile
States World Bank Washington DC
Waldron I Weiss CC and Hughes ME(1998) ldquoInteracting effects of
multiple roles on womens healthrdquoJournal of Health Social behaviour
Sep39(3)216-36
231
Wallerstein J S amp Kelly J (1980) Surviving the breakup How children
and parents cope with divorce New York Basic Books
WaltersV P Mcdonoughand L Strohschein (2002) ldquoChronic stress and
the social patterning of womens health in Canada social sciences and
medicine Mar54(5)767-82
Warren J A amp Johnson P J (1995) The impact of workplace support on
work-family role strain Family Relations 44 163-169
Weissman MM Leaf PJ amp Bruce ML (1987) Single parent women
SocialPsychiatry 22 29-36
Wheaton Blair ( 1994) ldquoSampling the Stress Universerdquo Pp 77ndash114 in
Stress and Mental Health Contemporary Issues and Prospects for the
Future edited by W Avison and I Gotlib New York Plenum
White L K A Booth and JN Edwards (1986) ldquoChildren and Marital
Happiness Why the Negative Correlationrdquo Journal of Family Issues 7
131-147
Wijnberg M H amp Reding K M (1999) Reclaiming a stress focus the
hassles of rural poor single mothers Families in Society 80(5) 506ndash
515
Willicox S (2003) ldquoThe Effect of Widowhood on Physical and Mental
Healthrdquo Health Behaviour and Health Outcome 22(5) 513-522
Wojtkiewicz RA SS McLanahan and I Garfinkel (1990) The
Growth of Families Headed by Women 1950-1980 Demo- graphy
2719-30
World Bank (2001a) World Bank Policy Research Report 2001
Engendering Development Through Gender Equality in Rights
Resources and Voice Oxford University Press New York
232
World Bank (2007) Global Monitoring Report Millennium Development
Goals Confronting the Challenges of Gender Equality and Fragile
States World Bank Washington DC
Zachariah Mathew and Irudaya Rajan (2007) ldquoMigrationRemittances
And Employment Short-term Trends and Longterm
ImplicationsrdquoDecember Centre for Develoment Studies
WP395ThiruvananathapuramKerala
Zachariah KC ET Mathew and Irudaya Rajan S (1999)rdquoKerala
Migrants in India and Abroad Working Paper 1CDS Studies on
International Migration from Keral state in Indiaed by Zachariah etal
Centre for Develoment Studies Thiruvananathapuram Kerala
Zachariah KC Mathew ET Rajan S I (2001) Social economic and
demographic consequences of migration on Kerala International
Migration 2001 39(2)43ndash67
Zahoor Hussain Javed and Ayesha Asif (2011) Female households and
poverty A case study of Faisalabad District International Journal of
Peace and Development Studies Vol 2(2) pp 37-44 February 2011
Zheng Wu Feng Hou and Christoph M Schimmele (2008) ldquoFamily
Structure and Children‟s Psychosocial Outcomesrdquo Journal of Family
Issues Volume 29 Number 12 December
229
Turner R J Lloyd D A amp Roszell P (1999) Personal resources and the
social distribution of depression American Journal of Community
Psychology 27 643ndash672
US Bureau of the Census (2001) People and families in poverty by
selected characteristics 1999 and 2000 Retrieved on February 4
2002 from
httpwwwcensusgovhhespovertypoverty00tables00html
UNDP (2001) Human Dvelopment Report2001 Making New Technologies
work for human development ldquo New York Oxford University Press
Unisa Sayeed and Datta Nitin (2005)rdquo Female Headship In India Levels
Differentials And Impactrdquo iussp2005princetonedu downloadaspx
submission Id=50705
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia
(UNESCWA) (1995b) Women and Poverty in the ESCWA Region
Issues and Concerns Study prepared by C Fawzi El-Solh New York
United Nations (1995) The Worlds Women 1995 Trends and Statistics
New York United Nations
United NationsDepartment for Economic and Social Information
(UNDESI) (1991) The World‟s Women 1970-1990 Trends and
Statistics Department for Economic and Social Information Social
Statistics and Indicators Series K no 8 New York
United NationsDepartment for Economic and Social Information
(UNDESI) (1997) Handbook for Producing National Statistics
Reports on Women and Men Statistics Division New York
United Nations (2005) The Millennium Development Goals Report 2005
New YorkUnited Nations
Van Meter M J amp Agronow S J (1982) The stress of multiple roles
The case for role strain among married college women Family
Relations 31 131- 138
230
Vardhan Ranjay (1999)Female Headed households in Patriarchal
SocietyIndian Publishers‟ Distributors156-DKamala Nagar Delhi-
110 007
Varghese Sheela (1990) ldquo Female-Supported Householdsrdquo Economic and
Political Weekly Vol 31 No 22 Jun 1 p 1290
Varley A (1996) ldquoWomen Heading Households Some More Equal Than
Otherrdquo World Development 24(3) 505-520
Villarreal Andreacutes and Heeju Shin ( 2008) Unraveling the Economic
Paradox of Female-Headed Households in Mexico The Role of Family
Networks Sociological Quarterly 49(3) 565ndash595
Visaria P and Visaria L (1985) ldquoIndian Households with Female Heads
Their Incidence Characteristics and Levels of Livingrdquo in Jain D and
Banerjee N (ed) Tyranny of the Household New Delhi Shakti Books
Vonnie C McLoyd Toby Epstein Jayaratne Rosario Ceballo Julio
Borquez (1994)rdquo Unemployment and Work Interruption among
African American Single Mothers Effects on Parenting and
Adolescent Socio emotional Functioningrdquo Child Development Vol
65 No 2 Children and Poverty) pp 562-589
Vu Manh Loi (1996) Female- Headed Households in Vietnam Working
Paper No 96-11 Seattle WA University of Washington Seattle
Population Research Center
World Bank (2007) Global Monitoring Report Millennium Development
Goals Confronting the Challenges of Gender Equality and Fragile
States World Bank Washington DC
Waldron I Weiss CC and Hughes ME(1998) ldquoInteracting effects of
multiple roles on womens healthrdquoJournal of Health Social behaviour
Sep39(3)216-36
231
Wallerstein J S amp Kelly J (1980) Surviving the breakup How children
and parents cope with divorce New York Basic Books
WaltersV P Mcdonoughand L Strohschein (2002) ldquoChronic stress and
the social patterning of womens health in Canada social sciences and
medicine Mar54(5)767-82
Warren J A amp Johnson P J (1995) The impact of workplace support on
work-family role strain Family Relations 44 163-169
Weissman MM Leaf PJ amp Bruce ML (1987) Single parent women
SocialPsychiatry 22 29-36
Wheaton Blair ( 1994) ldquoSampling the Stress Universerdquo Pp 77ndash114 in
Stress and Mental Health Contemporary Issues and Prospects for the
Future edited by W Avison and I Gotlib New York Plenum
White L K A Booth and JN Edwards (1986) ldquoChildren and Marital
Happiness Why the Negative Correlationrdquo Journal of Family Issues 7
131-147
Wijnberg M H amp Reding K M (1999) Reclaiming a stress focus the
hassles of rural poor single mothers Families in Society 80(5) 506ndash
515
Willicox S (2003) ldquoThe Effect of Widowhood on Physical and Mental
Healthrdquo Health Behaviour and Health Outcome 22(5) 513-522
Wojtkiewicz RA SS McLanahan and I Garfinkel (1990) The
Growth of Families Headed by Women 1950-1980 Demo- graphy
2719-30
World Bank (2001a) World Bank Policy Research Report 2001
Engendering Development Through Gender Equality in Rights
Resources and Voice Oxford University Press New York
232
World Bank (2007) Global Monitoring Report Millennium Development
Goals Confronting the Challenges of Gender Equality and Fragile
States World Bank Washington DC
Zachariah Mathew and Irudaya Rajan (2007) ldquoMigrationRemittances
And Employment Short-term Trends and Longterm
ImplicationsrdquoDecember Centre for Develoment Studies
WP395ThiruvananathapuramKerala
Zachariah KC ET Mathew and Irudaya Rajan S (1999)rdquoKerala
Migrants in India and Abroad Working Paper 1CDS Studies on
International Migration from Keral state in Indiaed by Zachariah etal
Centre for Develoment Studies Thiruvananathapuram Kerala
Zachariah KC Mathew ET Rajan S I (2001) Social economic and
demographic consequences of migration on Kerala International
Migration 2001 39(2)43ndash67
Zahoor Hussain Javed and Ayesha Asif (2011) Female households and
poverty A case study of Faisalabad District International Journal of
Peace and Development Studies Vol 2(2) pp 37-44 February 2011
Zheng Wu Feng Hou and Christoph M Schimmele (2008) ldquoFamily
Structure and Children‟s Psychosocial Outcomesrdquo Journal of Family
Issues Volume 29 Number 12 December
230
Vardhan Ranjay (1999)Female Headed households in Patriarchal
SocietyIndian Publishers‟ Distributors156-DKamala Nagar Delhi-
110 007
Varghese Sheela (1990) ldquo Female-Supported Householdsrdquo Economic and
Political Weekly Vol 31 No 22 Jun 1 p 1290
Varley A (1996) ldquoWomen Heading Households Some More Equal Than
Otherrdquo World Development 24(3) 505-520
Villarreal Andreacutes and Heeju Shin ( 2008) Unraveling the Economic
Paradox of Female-Headed Households in Mexico The Role of Family
Networks Sociological Quarterly 49(3) 565ndash595
Visaria P and Visaria L (1985) ldquoIndian Households with Female Heads
Their Incidence Characteristics and Levels of Livingrdquo in Jain D and
Banerjee N (ed) Tyranny of the Household New Delhi Shakti Books
Vonnie C McLoyd Toby Epstein Jayaratne Rosario Ceballo Julio
Borquez (1994)rdquo Unemployment and Work Interruption among
African American Single Mothers Effects on Parenting and
Adolescent Socio emotional Functioningrdquo Child Development Vol
65 No 2 Children and Poverty) pp 562-589
Vu Manh Loi (1996) Female- Headed Households in Vietnam Working
Paper No 96-11 Seattle WA University of Washington Seattle
Population Research Center
World Bank (2007) Global Monitoring Report Millennium Development
Goals Confronting the Challenges of Gender Equality and Fragile
States World Bank Washington DC
Waldron I Weiss CC and Hughes ME(1998) ldquoInteracting effects of
multiple roles on womens healthrdquoJournal of Health Social behaviour
Sep39(3)216-36
231
Wallerstein J S amp Kelly J (1980) Surviving the breakup How children
and parents cope with divorce New York Basic Books
WaltersV P Mcdonoughand L Strohschein (2002) ldquoChronic stress and
the social patterning of womens health in Canada social sciences and
medicine Mar54(5)767-82
Warren J A amp Johnson P J (1995) The impact of workplace support on
work-family role strain Family Relations 44 163-169
Weissman MM Leaf PJ amp Bruce ML (1987) Single parent women
SocialPsychiatry 22 29-36
Wheaton Blair ( 1994) ldquoSampling the Stress Universerdquo Pp 77ndash114 in
Stress and Mental Health Contemporary Issues and Prospects for the
Future edited by W Avison and I Gotlib New York Plenum
White L K A Booth and JN Edwards (1986) ldquoChildren and Marital
Happiness Why the Negative Correlationrdquo Journal of Family Issues 7
131-147
Wijnberg M H amp Reding K M (1999) Reclaiming a stress focus the
hassles of rural poor single mothers Families in Society 80(5) 506ndash
515
Willicox S (2003) ldquoThe Effect of Widowhood on Physical and Mental
Healthrdquo Health Behaviour and Health Outcome 22(5) 513-522
Wojtkiewicz RA SS McLanahan and I Garfinkel (1990) The
Growth of Families Headed by Women 1950-1980 Demo- graphy
2719-30
World Bank (2001a) World Bank Policy Research Report 2001
Engendering Development Through Gender Equality in Rights
Resources and Voice Oxford University Press New York
232
World Bank (2007) Global Monitoring Report Millennium Development
Goals Confronting the Challenges of Gender Equality and Fragile
States World Bank Washington DC
Zachariah Mathew and Irudaya Rajan (2007) ldquoMigrationRemittances
And Employment Short-term Trends and Longterm
ImplicationsrdquoDecember Centre for Develoment Studies
WP395ThiruvananathapuramKerala
Zachariah KC ET Mathew and Irudaya Rajan S (1999)rdquoKerala
Migrants in India and Abroad Working Paper 1CDS Studies on
International Migration from Keral state in Indiaed by Zachariah etal
Centre for Develoment Studies Thiruvananathapuram Kerala
Zachariah KC Mathew ET Rajan S I (2001) Social economic and
demographic consequences of migration on Kerala International
Migration 2001 39(2)43ndash67
Zahoor Hussain Javed and Ayesha Asif (2011) Female households and
poverty A case study of Faisalabad District International Journal of
Peace and Development Studies Vol 2(2) pp 37-44 February 2011
Zheng Wu Feng Hou and Christoph M Schimmele (2008) ldquoFamily
Structure and Children‟s Psychosocial Outcomesrdquo Journal of Family
Issues Volume 29 Number 12 December
231
Wallerstein J S amp Kelly J (1980) Surviving the breakup How children
and parents cope with divorce New York Basic Books
WaltersV P Mcdonoughand L Strohschein (2002) ldquoChronic stress and
the social patterning of womens health in Canada social sciences and
medicine Mar54(5)767-82
Warren J A amp Johnson P J (1995) The impact of workplace support on
work-family role strain Family Relations 44 163-169
Weissman MM Leaf PJ amp Bruce ML (1987) Single parent women
SocialPsychiatry 22 29-36
Wheaton Blair ( 1994) ldquoSampling the Stress Universerdquo Pp 77ndash114 in
Stress and Mental Health Contemporary Issues and Prospects for the
Future edited by W Avison and I Gotlib New York Plenum
White L K A Booth and JN Edwards (1986) ldquoChildren and Marital
Happiness Why the Negative Correlationrdquo Journal of Family Issues 7
131-147
Wijnberg M H amp Reding K M (1999) Reclaiming a stress focus the
hassles of rural poor single mothers Families in Society 80(5) 506ndash
515
Willicox S (2003) ldquoThe Effect of Widowhood on Physical and Mental
Healthrdquo Health Behaviour and Health Outcome 22(5) 513-522
Wojtkiewicz RA SS McLanahan and I Garfinkel (1990) The
Growth of Families Headed by Women 1950-1980 Demo- graphy
2719-30
World Bank (2001a) World Bank Policy Research Report 2001
Engendering Development Through Gender Equality in Rights
Resources and Voice Oxford University Press New York
232
World Bank (2007) Global Monitoring Report Millennium Development
Goals Confronting the Challenges of Gender Equality and Fragile
States World Bank Washington DC
Zachariah Mathew and Irudaya Rajan (2007) ldquoMigrationRemittances
And Employment Short-term Trends and Longterm
ImplicationsrdquoDecember Centre for Develoment Studies
WP395ThiruvananathapuramKerala
Zachariah KC ET Mathew and Irudaya Rajan S (1999)rdquoKerala
Migrants in India and Abroad Working Paper 1CDS Studies on
International Migration from Keral state in Indiaed by Zachariah etal
Centre for Develoment Studies Thiruvananathapuram Kerala
Zachariah KC Mathew ET Rajan S I (2001) Social economic and
demographic consequences of migration on Kerala International
Migration 2001 39(2)43ndash67
Zahoor Hussain Javed and Ayesha Asif (2011) Female households and
poverty A case study of Faisalabad District International Journal of
Peace and Development Studies Vol 2(2) pp 37-44 February 2011
Zheng Wu Feng Hou and Christoph M Schimmele (2008) ldquoFamily
Structure and Children‟s Psychosocial Outcomesrdquo Journal of Family
Issues Volume 29 Number 12 December
232
World Bank (2007) Global Monitoring Report Millennium Development
Goals Confronting the Challenges of Gender Equality and Fragile
States World Bank Washington DC
Zachariah Mathew and Irudaya Rajan (2007) ldquoMigrationRemittances
And Employment Short-term Trends and Longterm
ImplicationsrdquoDecember Centre for Develoment Studies
WP395ThiruvananathapuramKerala
Zachariah KC ET Mathew and Irudaya Rajan S (1999)rdquoKerala
Migrants in India and Abroad Working Paper 1CDS Studies on
International Migration from Keral state in Indiaed by Zachariah etal
Centre for Develoment Studies Thiruvananathapuram Kerala
Zachariah KC Mathew ET Rajan S I (2001) Social economic and
demographic consequences of migration on Kerala International
Migration 2001 39(2)43ndash67
Zahoor Hussain Javed and Ayesha Asif (2011) Female households and
poverty A case study of Faisalabad District International Journal of
Peace and Development Studies Vol 2(2) pp 37-44 February 2011
Zheng Wu Feng Hou and Christoph M Schimmele (2008) ldquoFamily
Structure and Children‟s Psychosocial Outcomesrdquo Journal of Family
Issues Volume 29 Number 12 December