Power relations and contraceptive use: gender differentials in Bangladesh

Type Journal Article - Canadian Social Science
Title Power relations and contraceptive use: gender differentials in Bangladesh
Author(s)
Volume 5
Issue 1
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2009
Page numbers 1-15
URL http://www.cscanada.net/index.php/css/article/download/325/323
Abstract
Previous research tends to ignore men and women’s contraceptive use based on existing power relations at the household level. Male role theory and power theory suggest that although men dominate at the household level and influence all the decisions that have taken place, these men become really invisible when it comes to contraceptive use. The present study attempts to explain the impact of power relations on differential contraceptive use among men and women in Bangladesh. Since the main objective of this research is to see differentials based on gender, men’s and women’s data from the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey 2000 have been matched based on cluster number, household number, and line number and merged to get sample size of 2249. The results suggest that power relations at the household level have a significant impact in transcending barriers to contraceptive use

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