Paper delivered by Lourdes Beneria, Livingston College, Rutgers University and Gita Sen, The New School for Social Research during the Afternoon Workshops Session at The Scholar and the Feminist VII. Later published as "Accumulation, Reproduction and Women's Role in Economic Development: Boserup Revisited," in Signs, Winter 1981. Papers presented or name of session: "Modernization or Accumulation: Boserup Revisited".