Women status has an important role in fertility transition around the world. The main objective of this paper is to study of fertility transition in 28 countries in South Central and West Asia and their convergence with the East Asia region during the past 60 years. The main hypothesis is that improvement of women status along with diffusion of contraception has a determinant role in fertility convergence of under study countries with the East Asia region. Data for this study comes from the world population prospects: the 2012 revision, world contraceptive use 2013, world development indicators 2014, and world women-girl 2011 data sheet which adopted from different data sources. Results show that fertility reduction has generalized among countries at the region since 1985. However, different experiences of fertility transition have caused different levels of fertility convergence with the East Asia region by the countries. Although, fertility convergence is a pervasive phenomenon in the period 2005-2010, but Yemen, Iraq, Pakistan and Jordan have minimal convergence with the region of East Asia at this point. According to this study, the status of women has had a determining role in fertility convergence of countries, so that despite controlling the use of contraception, significant changes did not observed in the relationship between women's status and fertility convergence. Findings put emphasis on this fact that just family planning and birth control policies cannot smoothed the path of fertility convergence in South-central and West Asian countries with the East Asia region.
