WOMEN'S WORK AND FERTILITY IN A SUB-SAHARAN URBAN SETTING: A SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT APPROACH

2000 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
VICTOR AGADJANIAN
Keyword(s):  
Social Environment ◽  
Contraceptive Use ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Work Environments ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
Multivariate Tests ◽  
Modern Contraception ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
The Relationship

Data from three separate studies conducted in Maputo, Mozambique, in 1993 are used to analyse the relationship between the type of social environment in which women work and their fertility and contraceptive use. The analysis finds that women who work in more collectivized environments have fewer children and are more likely to use modern contraception than women who work in more individualized milieus and those who do not work outside the home. Most of these differences persist in multivariate tests. It is argued that collectivized work environments are most conducive to diffusion and legitimation of reproductive innovations. In contrast, individualized environments tend to isolate women and therefore may retard their acceptance of innovative fertility-related behaviour.

Southwest China

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurel Bossen ◽  
Hill Gates
Keyword(s):  
Survey Data ◽  
Southwest China ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Cotton Cloth ◽  
Cotton Yarn ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
Fertile Ground ◽  
Locally Grown ◽  
The Relationship

China’s Southwest, lacking locally grown cotton, had imported raw cotton, cotton yarn, and cotton cloth. Among our five village sites in mountainous Yunnan and Guizhou, differences in the distance from industrial centers and the railway allowed some villages to specialize in hand woven textiles and other commercial crafts while other villages relied less on women’s handcraft labor. With milder winters, the work of cultivating double-cropped rice and opium left less time for handwork, and generated income used to buy textiles. The variations in Han women’s work and footbinding provide fertile ground for testing the relationship between girls’ labor and footbinding. The examination of Southwest China concludes with comparison to Gates’ earlier survey data on footbinding among nearly 5,000 Sichuan women.

scholarly journals Does work influence women’s autonomy or does autonomy deliberate women to work?

2018 ◽  
Vol 74 ◽  
pp. 10013
Author(s):  
Ruskin Ristiana ◽  
Dwini Handayani
Keyword(s):  
Multinomial Logistic Regression ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Work Status ◽  
Women’S Autonomy ◽  
Multinomial Logistic Regression Analysis ◽  
Women's Autonomy ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
Causal Direction ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Relationship

Work, especially paid work, has been assumed to enhance women’s autonomy, particularly their household autonomy. However, this assumption does not work in one causal direction. The causality relationship works both ways, that women work due to their high level of autonomy, but also because their employment status will increase their autonomy. The aim of this study is to understand the relationship between women’s work status and their household autonomy. This study used data from the Indonesian Demography and Health Survey 2012, together with a multinomial logistic regression analysis on married women’s work status and autonomy as dependent and independent variables, respectively. It was found that work status influences married women’s household autonomy and vice versa. However, the direction and strength of the influence depend on the type of work status and autonomy.

WHEN ANCIENT MEETS MODERN: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN POSTPARTUM NON-SUSCEPTIBILITY AND CONTRACEPTION IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

2007 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 493-515 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARK BROWN
Keyword(s):  
Health Surveys ◽  
Contraceptive Use ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Central Component ◽  
Modern Methods ◽  
Contraceptive Prevalence ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Susceptibility Status

SummaryExtended durations of postpartum non-susceptibility (PPNS) comprising lactational amenorrhoea and associated taboos on sex have been a central component of traditional reproductive regimes in sub-Saharan Africa. In situations of rising contraceptive prevalence this paper draws on data from the Demographic Health Surveys to consider the neglected interface between ancient and modern methods of regulation. The analysis reports striking contrasts between countries. At one extreme a woman’s natural susceptibility status appears to have little bearing on the decision to use contraception in Zimbabwe, with widespread ‘double-protection’. By contrast, contraceptive use in Kenya and Ghana builds directly onto underlying patterns of PPNS. Possible explanations for the differences and the implications for theory and policy are discussed.

Gender, poverty and the development of the right to social security

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 460-477 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beth Goldblatt
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
International Law ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
Limited Attention ◽  
Gender Perspective ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
Substantive Equality ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThe international right to social security has been given limited attention as a vehicle for addressing women's poverty. This paper highlights some of the issues shaping women's poverty globally that require a more responsive right to social security. It discusses the nature and purpose of social security and examines the international law relating to this right, arguing that recent interpretations lack an adequate framework for ensuring women's interests are fully accommodated. The paper challenges the relationship between the right to social security and traditional conceptions of work that exclude women's labour. It also argues that the right must have application at the transnational level if it is to address the changing nature of women's work. Drawing on ideas of substantive equality, it proposes an approach to the development of the right from a gender perspective including a set of principles to be followed in applying the right.

scholarly journals The relationship between women’s work histories and incomes in later life in the UK, US and West Germany

2011 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Sefton ◽  
Maria Evandrou ◽  
Jane Falkingham ◽  
Athina Vlachantoni
Keyword(s):  
Later Life ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Work Histories ◽  
The Relationship

Reframing the Measurement of Women’s Work in the Sub-Saharan African Context

2018 ◽  
pp. 095001701877424 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jocelyn E Finlay ◽  
Yvette Efevbera ◽  
Jacques Ndikubagenzi ◽  
Mahesh Karra ◽  
David Canning
Keyword(s):  
Women's Work ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
African Context ◽  
Sub Saharan
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