For INED researchers Marie Bergström and Mathieu Trachman, gender studies are not limited to analysis of differences between men and women. The point is rather to analyze relations between the two sexes as social relations.
1.9 billion women on earth are of reproductive age, yet only half use contraception. What explains this difference?
Palaeodemography is the study of past populations who left little if anything in the way of written material that would tell us about their demographic behaviours.
In 2009, the taskforce for assessing French national policy for preventing and combating violence against women (Mission d’Evaluation de la Politique de Prévention et de Lutte contre les Violences faites aux Femmes), a body working under the aegis of/a commission of France’s National Assembly, recommended conducting a new survey on violence against women that would modelled be on the national survey on the same issue done in 2000 by the demographic institute of the Université Paris I (ENVEFF)
The immigrant population of metropolitan France -that is, persons born non-French outside France-has been predominantly female for the last few years.
Within Europe, France and Italy stand virtually opposed in terms of fertility: women in France have 2 children on average, as against 1.4 in Italy. The difference is explained in part by the fact that women in Italy have their first child at a later age
Egypt is one of the few Arab countries not to have really made the demographic transition, despite a fall in mortality. With nearly 79 million inhabitants in 2010, Egypt is currently the most heavily populated Arab country...
In an article published in Population (2017-3), Dominique Tabutin and Bruno Masquelier assess mortality trends since 1990.
Paris still has a certain amount of dilapidated, unhealthy housing
Boys reach puberty at around 15 years—later than girls, who usually begin menstruating around age 13.
