Dynamics of Women’s Autonomy in Household Decision-Making in Ghana

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 293-312
Author(s):  
Kamil Fuseini ◽  
Ishmael Kalule-Sabiti ◽  
Charles Lwanga
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Women’S Autonomy ◽  
Women's Autonomy ◽  
Household Decision ◽  
Household Decision Making

scholarly journals Women's autonomy in household decision-making: a demographic study in Nepal

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dev R Acharya ◽  
Jacqueline S Bell ◽  
Padam Simkhada ◽  
Edwin R van Teijlingen ◽  
Pramod R Regmi
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Women’S Autonomy ◽  
Women's Autonomy ◽  
Household Decision ◽  
Household Decision Making ◽  
Demographic Study

scholarly journals Factors Affecting Women’s Autonomy in Household Decision-Making among Married Women in Zambia

2020 ◽  
pp. 109-123
Author(s):  
Kusanthan Thankian
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Married Women ◽  
Wife Beating ◽  
Women’S Autonomy ◽  
Her Family ◽  
Women's Autonomy ◽  
Household Decision ◽  
Household Decision Making

The main aim of the study was to examine factors that affect women’s household decision-making among married women in Zambia. This paper utilizes secondary data from the 2013 Zambia Demographic Health Survey (ZDHS). Logistic regression analysis was used to identify various factors associated with factors that affect women’s autonomy in household decision-making among married women in Zambia. The findings of the study show that married women in Zambia are more likely to participate in decision-making that involved purchases of daily household needs (86%) followed by decision making that involved visits to her family or relatives (75%) and decisions about her own health care (74%). About 66per cent of the respondents reported having participated in household major purposes. Some socio-demographic variables only influenced women in some domains and not all. For instance, age only influenced decision-making on household goods and visits to family. Rich wealthy status, living in urban areas, higher levels of education and justification of wife-beating were influential to healthcare decision-making among women. Zambian programmes and policy initiatives should develop a clear policy foundation that should be crucial to empower women to take part in decision-making processes in the household. Moreover, enhancing their access to and control over economic resources and enabling them to establish and realise their rights are also essential means to empower women to be more autonomous in decision-making.

Moderating Effect of Husband’s Controlling Attitudes on the Relation Between Women’s Household Decision-Making Autonomy and Intimate Partner Violence Experience in Nigeria

2019 ◽  
pp. 088626051988853
Author(s):  
Adegbenga M. Sunmola ◽  
Mohammed N. Sambo ◽  
Olusegun A. Mayungbo ◽  
Luqman A. Morakinyo
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Women’S Autonomy ◽  
Women's Autonomy ◽  
Household Decision ◽  
Household Decision Making ◽  
Nationally Representative

Existing studies show a consensus on the importance of women’s household decision-making autonomy. However, the studies also show mixed findings of the association between the variable and intimate partner violence (IPV). In this study, moderating effects of husband’s controlling and domineering attitudes on the association between women’s household decision-making autonomy and husband-perpetrated physical, sexual, and emotional violence were investigated. Data used in the study were drawn from an existing database of a 2013 cross-sectional Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) of nationally representative sample ( N = 19,360) of Nigerian married women. Participants were interviewed on measures of women’s autonomy, husband’s attitudes, and husband-perpetrated violence. Results revealed that women who exercised high household decision-making autonomy significantly experienced more physical ( b = .31, t = 11.78, p < .001), sexual ( b = .05, t = 3.59, p < .01), and emotional ( b = .17, t = 9.76, p < .001) violence if they reported relationship with husbands who endorsed high controlling and domineering attitudes. The results represent an extension over existing research and have implications on how husband’s attitudes could improve women’s autonomy and reduce their IPV experience in various intervention settings.

Women's Autonomy in Decision Making for Health Care in South Asia

2009 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Upul Senarath ◽  
Nalika Sepali Gunawardena
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Contraceptive Use ◽  
Collective Responsibility ◽  
Women’S Autonomy ◽  
Women's Autonomy ◽  
Household Decision ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Nationally Representative

This article aims to discuss women's autonomy in decision making on health care, and its determinants in 3 South Asian countries, using nationally representative surveys. Women's participation either alone or jointly in household decisions on their own health care was considered as an indicator of women's autonomy in decision making. The results revealed that decisions of women's health care were made without their participation in the majority of Nepal (72.7%) and approximately half of Bangladesh (54.3%) and Indian (48.5%) households. In Sri Lanka, decision making for contraceptive use was a collective responsibility in the majority (79.7%). Women's participation in decision making significantly increased with age, education, and number of children. Women who were employed and earned cash had a stronger say in household decision making than women who did not work or worked not for cash. Rural and poor women were less likely to be involved in decision making than urban or rich women.

Working Women’s Decision-Making Power at Home: Evidence from Four North Indian Urban Clusters

Urbanisation ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 245574712110258
Author(s):  
Megan Maxwell ◽  
Milan Vaishnav
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Working Women ◽  
Human Agency ◽  
Significant Heterogeneity ◽  
Household Decision ◽  
Household Decision Making ◽  
Theoretical Foundations ◽  
Shed Light

Do working women enjoy greater levels of human agency? While the theoretical foundations underlying this connection are clear, the empirical evidence is quite mixed. We leverage detailed, new data on intra-household decision-making and labour market behaviour from four north Indian urban clusters to shed light on this question. We find that women who work exercise greater say in important decisions around the home. However, this ‘work advantage’ exhibits significant heterogeneity across decision types, decision-making domains, and definitions of work.

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