Asset and Liability: The Role of Female Education in Changing Marriage Patterns Among Havik Brahmins

2021 ◽  
pp. 187-212
Author(s):  
Helen E. Ullrich
Keyword(s):  
Female Education ◽  
Marriage Patterns

scholarly journals A new method for identifying the role of marital preferences at shaping marriage patterns

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Anna Naszodi ◽  
Francisco Mendonca
Keyword(s):  
Contingency Table ◽  
Transformation Method ◽  
New Method ◽  
Marriage Patterns ◽  
The Us ◽  
Analytical Properties ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
Transformation Methods

Abstract We develop a method which assumes that marital preferences are characterized either by the scalar-valued measure proposed by Liu and Lu, or by the matrix-valued generalized Liu–Lu measure. The new method transforms an observed contingency table into a counterfactual table while preserving its (generalized) Liu–Lu value. After exploring some analytical properties of the new method, we illustrate its application by decomposing changes in the prevalence of homogamy in the US between 1980 and 2010. We perform this decomposition with two alternative transformation methods as well where both methods capture preferences differently from Liu and Lu. Finally, we use survey evidence to support our claim that out of the three considered methods, the new transformation method is the most suitable for identifying the role of marital preferences at shaping marriage patterns. These data are also in favor of measuring assortativity in preferences à la Liu and Lu.

scholarly journals Role, Status and Perception of Female Education Regarding Socio-Economic Development

2020 ◽  
Vol V (I) ◽  
pp. 551-561
Author(s):  
Waqar Un Nisa Faizi ◽  
Wilayat Bibi ◽  
Syed Shafqat Ali Shah
Keyword(s):  
Random Sampling ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Simple Random Sample ◽  
Female Education ◽  
Socio Economic Status ◽  
Socio Economic Development

This research work is to explore the role, status and perception of female education with respect to a budgetary change in District Peshawar. Education changes people leadership and makes them live with flexibility. The objectives were (i) To find the perception of female education regarding socio economic status (ii) to know the role of women as mother, wife and daughter, is to be assessed. The research study was restricted to Peshawar. For the administration of the study tool, a random sampling technique was used. A simple random sample, of 240 participants, of Peshawar District was chosen randomly. The main findings of the study included: (1) Somewhere between 5,001 and 10,000 Rs, wages of a mind sweeping number of respondents were consistent. In all cases, most respondents earned different settlement wells to Rs.5000; (2) the mostly respondents ensured criticality for the female as the directorate deals with budgetary problems and personality

scholarly journals Progress towards the Ending Preventable Maternal Mortality (EPMM) target for Bangladesh: The role of female education

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karar Zunaid Ahsan ◽  
Peter Kim Streatfield ◽  
Kanta Jamil ◽  
Shams El Arifeen
Keyword(s):  
Maternal Mortality ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Mortality Data ◽  
Female Education ◽  
Maternal Deaths ◽  
Education Levels ◽  
Education Status ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Mortality Survey

AbstractEducational attainment among women is a well-recognized predictor for maternal mortality. Data from nationally representative surveys and the United Nations are used in the analysis for estimating maternal mortality due to improved education status up to 2030. Analysis of data from 2001 and 2010 Bangladesh Maternal Mortality Survey shows that MMR varies considerably by education level. The study shows that during 2011–2030, 15% maternal deaths will be averted due to fertility change (i.e. fewer births) and 24% of the maternal deaths can be averted only by improving the female education levels. However, in order to achieve the Ending Preventable Maternal Mortality (EPMM) target of 59 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births by 2030 for Bangladesh, a further 64% reduction will be required. Factors outside the health sector, like female education, will continue to have an impact maternal mortality in Bangladesh. However, reaching the EPMM target for Bangladesh by 2030 will also require significant investments in maternal health programs, in particular those to increase access to and quality of services.

scholarly journals Differentials in Female Age at Marriage in Pakistan: Have they Changed or Not?

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-94
Author(s):  
Aneel Shahzad
Keyword(s):  
Demographic Transition ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Strong Relationship ◽  
Cultural Factor ◽  
Female Education ◽  
Female Age ◽  
Marriage Patterns ◽  
Age At Marriage ◽  
First Marriage ◽  
Age At First Marriage

Age at marriage is an important factor to study the marriage patterns of a country because of strong relationship between age at first marriage and childbearing. In this study, effects of one major socio-cultural factor female education and place of residence have been illustrated. The present study attempted to find differentials in female age at marriage in Pakistan since Pakistan has begun to face early demographic transition since 90’s. The investigation of differentials in female age at marriage in this study is generally based on data analysis of Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey (PDHS) 2006-07. While comparative analysis also discussed in a separate section with findings of PDHS, 2012-13. The age at first marriage of women lived in major urban areas seemed to carry with them the influence of the urban lifestyle and are also influenced by the educational enrollment opportunities.

scholarly journals V.F. Odoyevsky and public music education: the background of the problem and the reception of the scholar’s ideas in Russian folklore

2021 ◽  
pp. 70-84
Author(s):  
Irina Popova
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Numerical Technique ◽  
Female Education ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Russian Art ◽  
Old Russian ◽  
Social Initiatives ◽  
Scientific Ideas

The author of the article thinks through the views of an outstanding writer, musician, scholar, collector and music folklore and the Old Russian art of singing researcher, Prince Vladimir Fyodorovich Odoyevsky on public music education. The author considers Odoyevsky’s opinion about the education of the lowest tiers of Russian society and female education and the possible ways of public music education. The research is based on Odoyevsky’s letters and diaries, and three articles about primary music education methods and the peculiarities of giving solfegio classes to broad public. The author focuses on the role of “numerical technique” in the development of Russian folklore music notating.The scientific novelty of the research consists in the understanding of Odoyevsky’s contribution to the popularization of the music notating system created by Émile-Joseph-Maurice Chevé. The author of the research is the first to establish Odoyevsky’s priority in developing and supporting government and social initiatives in the field of public music education. The author demonstrates the universal character of approaches of the Russian enlightener to solving educational problems and explains the reception of some scientific ideas of the scholar in Russian folklore milieu. The author uses the examples of typologically homogeneous terms of the theory of music applied by Odoyevsky and still used by folklore musicians.   

Book Reviews

2011 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 766-767 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Family ◽  
Gender Preferences ◽  
Chinese Families ◽  
Southeast China ◽  
Marriage Patterns ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Household Decisions ◽  
Parental Transfers ◽  
Distinguished Research

Aloysius Siow of University of Toronto reviews “Understanding Chinese Families: A Comparative Study of Taiwan and Southeast China” by C. Y. Cyrus Chu and Ruoh-Rong Yu. The EconLit Abstract of the reviewed work begins “Analyzes the contemporary Chinese family in Taiwan and Southeast China using a study of longitudinal data. Discusses an introduction to Chinese families; social backgrounds of China and Taiwan; coresidence and family size; family fertility; marriage patterns; housework and household decisions; revealed son preferences; the role of the family in child education; intergenerational mobility; family reciprocal supports; parental transfers and child feedbacks; and changing gender preferences in Taiwan. Chu is with the Faculty of Economics at the National Taiwan University and Distinguished Research Fellow of the Institute of Economics at Academia Sinica. Yu is Associate Fellow with the Centre for Survey Research at Academia Sinica. Index.”

Glass Ceiling at Workplace: An Analysis with Reference to Laws of India

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (10) ◽  
pp. 34-40
Author(s):  
Padma Kapoor ◽  
Vikramjit Kaur
Keyword(s):  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Glass Ceiling ◽  
Professional Growth ◽  
Female Education ◽  
Indian Government ◽  
Organizational Hierarchy ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
Gender Barriers ◽  
Condition Of Women

"Glass Ceiling" means an invisible or hidden barrier that describes the gender barriers, as it stands for gender, race, and class that obstruct women's opportunities for advancement at all levels of organizational hierarchy. It is not only a corporate term that is being generally used in the workplace for women but it is an unfortunate incident that can be happened at all levels, which lies in the mindset of people and society. The rise in female education and the feminization of higher professions - liberal and salaried have not removed the obstacles that women face in reaching the top levels of power, prestige, and remuneration. Women are facing various issues like gender inequality, discrimination, sexual abuse, and mental harassment at work or in society. So improving the condition of women, many organizations, Governments are coming forward and making some policies and laws for their betterment. This paper is an attempt to analyze the role of the Indian government towards the upliftment of women in their personal as well as professional growth.

So That They May Be an Honor to You

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen M. Teoh
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Chinese Women ◽  
Female Education ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Chinese Perspective ◽  
The World ◽  
Singapore Chinese ◽  
Girls School ◽  
Chinese Girls

This chapter focuses on the ethno-culturally hybrid Straits Chinese, who intermarried with local Malays for generations in the Straits Settlements of British Malaya and Singapore, and the role of female education in efforts to restore their socioeconomic status during the early twentieth century. Straits Chinese were also known as Peranakan (Malay for “child/born of”), and their women were called Nyonya. Peranakan male elites (called Baba) expressed concerns about the backwardness of the Nyonya in the Straits Chinese Magazine and founded the Singapore Chinese Girls’ School to modernize their women and their community. The Straits Chinese perspective on female education was similar to that of elites in various modernizing nations around the world, but their case was unique because they occupied several ethno-cultural and national categories concurrently. Straits Chinese women were tasked with representing modernity and tradition simultaneously, and with helping to secure their community’s place in the transition from colony to nation-state.

Images of governesses', teachers, nannies in women's diaries and memories of the XIX-th – early XX-th centuries

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 697-704
Author(s):  
Yu.V. Antonova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Training ◽  
Moral Development ◽  
Female Education ◽  
Home Education ◽  
Negative Image ◽  
Xxth Century ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Women's Diaries

In the context of the development of female education in the XIXth  early XXth century approaches to the home education of all the girls are of great interest. The analysis of these approaches let us not only to identify the degree of educators influence and moral development of the girls, but also we are able to observe a controversial image of governesses, nannies and teachers in the girls minds. A low level of morality, teacher training and poor material security formed a negative image among the girls, and also all those factors did not meet the goals of the education and upbringing at the education at that time. Families lacked control over the educators and the teachers, and, because of this, the situation became worse. In addition, most mothers of that time did not have the necessary pedagogical education. Anyway, the role of the mothers increased significantly, when most women began to perceive upbringing as their important social duty. Womens diaries and memories allowed us to trace this trend.

RAPID FERTILITY DECLINE IN IRAN: ANALYSIS OF INTERMEDIATE VARIABLES

2008 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 459-478 ◽  
Author(s):  
AMIR ERFANI ◽  
KEVIN MCQUILLAN
Keyword(s):  
Rapid Decrease ◽  
Fertility Rate ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Younger Women ◽  
Marriage Patterns ◽  
Inhibiting Effect ◽  
Current Period ◽  
Proximate Determinants ◽  
Intermediate Variables

SummaryThe remarkable decline in fertility in Iran, which saw the total fertility rate fall from 7 children per woman in 1986 to 2 in 2000, has received only limited analysis in the demographic literature. Using the 2000 Iran Demographic and Health Survey and Bongaarts’ age-specific fertility model, this paper examines the role of the major proximate determinants of fertility in bringing about the rapid decrease in fertility in Iran. The analysis indicates that contraception had the largest effect on fertility, accounting for 61% of the reduction in fertility from its theoretical maximum. The fertility-inhibiting effect of marriage patterns accounted for an additional 31% reduction, and was most important among the young. Further analysis of contraceptive behaviour suggests that the current period fertility rate of 2·0 children per woman is an outcome of a synchronization of delaying and spacing of births among younger women with stopping of childbearing among women in the middle and late reproductive ages. The policy implications of the results are discussed.

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