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Environment and Urbanization, Vol. 10 No. 1, April1998 RESÚMENES/RÉSUMÉS Households, gender and rural-urban migration: reflections on linkages and considerations for policy highlights the interrelatedness of gender and household organization in a central aspect of developmental change: rural-urban migration. It demonstrates the significance of intra-household dynamics for understanding the gender selectivity of population movement and shows in turn how this contributes to household diversity among low-income groups in both rural and urban areas. The paper concludes that governments and agencies could do more for gender equality by acknowledging the potentially transformative role of interventions aimed not only at, but inside, households and by adopting more flexible positions towards household diversity.