Sidney Ruth Schuler
Biographic Data
| ID | 128885 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sidney Ruth Schuler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sidney Ruth |
| FAMILY NAME | Schuler |
| SIGNATURE | SCHULER S R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Academy for Educational Development |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2870-6254 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 53 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 629 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 53 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Intimate partner violence and social connection among married women in rural Bangladesh
BACKGROUND: Intimate partner violence (IPV) is high among married women in Bangladesh. Social isolation is a well-established correlate of women's exposure to IPV, but the role of such factors in low-income and middle-income countries is not well understood. In this study, we explore whether social connection is protective against IPV among married women in rural Bangladesh. METHODS: Data were drawn from a multistage, stratified, population-based…
The Other Side of Polyandry: Property, Stratification, and Nonmarriage in the Nepal Himalayas
This book provides demographic data on polyandry and nonmarriage, exploring the social and economic context of nonmarriage and its implications vis-a-vis the position of women in the Nepal. It fills gaps in the literature on Tibetan societies with respect to stratification and the position of women.
Other Side of Polyandry: Property, Stratification, and Nonmarriage in the Nepal Himalayas
Intimate partner violence and depression in rural Bangladesh: Accounting for violence severity in a high prevalence setting
Intimate partner violence (IPV) against women is highly prevalent globally, and is associated with adverse health outcomes, including depression. Though women living in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) face a larger burden of IPV, little is known about whether IPV increases the risk of depression among non-pregnant women and in contexts of high prevalence. Within the setting of rural Bangladesh, this study examined the relationship betwee…
Men’s perspectives on women’s empowerment and intimate partner violence in rural Bangladesh
Intimate partner violence (IPV) may increase as women in patriarchal societies become empowered, implicitly or explicitly challenging prevailing gender norms. Prior evidence suggests an inverse U-shaped relationship between women's empowerment and IPV, in which violence against women first increases and then decreases as more egalitarian gender norms gradually gain acceptance. By means of focus-group discussions and in-depth interviews with men i…
Measuring changes in women's empowerment and its relationship to intimate partner violence
This article uses survey data to examine changes over time in the relationship between women’s empowerment and intimate partner violence (IPV) in six Bangladeshi villages. Prior analyses using a limited set of empowerment indicators available in both 2002 and 2014 suggested a persistent positive association between empowerment and IPV. The article’s analysis, using an updated set of measures derived from extensive qualitative studies, suggests th…
Male engagement in women's microbicide use in Kenya: Navigating gender norms
The success of women's microbicide use for HIV/AIDS prevention may hinge on health programs' ability to engage men to support it. In this qualitative study in Kenya, most women did not or would not tell their partners prior to initiating use, and/or would use despite their objections. Men generally did not agree with this, yet male partners of trial participants who discovered that their partners were using microbicides without their knowledge di…
Does Intimate Partner Violence Decline as Women’s Empowerment Becomes Normative? Perspectives of Bangladeshi Women
Women’s Empowerment as a Protective Factor Against Intimate Partner Violence in Bangladesh: A Qualitative Exploration of the Process and Limitations of Its Influence
Literature on the relationship between intimate partner violence (IPV) against women and women's empowerment is contradictory. Findings from a recent survey in rural Bangladesh suggest that empowerment is becoming protective even though IPV rates remain high. We construct qualitative case studies exploring factors and social processes underlying relationships between empowerment and IPV in four villages. Empowerment may be protective against IPV …
Child Marriage and Intimate Partner Violence in Rural Bangladesh: A Longitudinal Multilevel Analysis
Child marriage (before age 18) is a risk factor for intimate partner violence (IPV) against women. Worldwide, Bangladesh has the highest prevalence of IPV and very early child marriage (before age 15). How the community prevalence of very early child marriage influences a woman’s risk of IPV is unknown. Using panel data (2013–2014) from 3,355 women first married 4–12 years prior in 77 Bangladeshi villages, we tested the protective effect of a wom…
Men's Perpetration of Intimate Partner Violence in Vietnam: Gendered Social Learning and the Challenges of Masculinity
Using the survey responses of 522 married men (eighteen to fifty-one years) in Vietnam, we explored how gendered social learning in boyhood and challenges to men's expected status in marriage may increase the risk that men perpetrate intimate partner violence (IPV) against their wives. Over one-third (36.6 percent) of the participants reported having ever perpetrated psychological, physical, or sexual IPV against their current wife. Accounting fo…
Recourse Seeking and Intervention in the Context of Intimate Partner Violence in Vietnam: A Qualitative Study
This qualitative study examines attitudes toward recourse seeking and intervention in cases of intimate partner violence (IPV) against women in periurban Vietnam. The data come from 20 open-ended interviews, 4 focus group discussions, and 40 cognitive interviews conducted with married men and women. The findings indicate that many people hold contradictory beliefs and inconsistent attitudes about IPV and IPV intervention. Also, most informants kn…
Interactive Workshops to Promote Gender Equity and Family Planning in Rural Communities of Guatemala: Results of a Community Randomized Study
In Guatemala, especially in rural areas, gender norms contribute to high fertility and closely spaced births by discouraging contraceptive use and constraining women from making decisions regarding the timing of their pregnancies and the size of their families. Community workshops for men, women and couples were conducted in 30 rural communities in Guatemala to test the hypothesis that the promotion of gender equity in the context of reproductive…
Familial Power and Women’s Contradictory Responses to Attitudinal Questions About Intimate Partner Violence in Rural Bangladesh
Research is lacking on how power processes can influence women’s reporting of their attitudes about intimate partner violence (IPV) against women. Structural elements of textual data were investigated as potential evidence of latent power. Overall, the majority of the women switched their response at least once throughout the interview, and the context of these contradictory responses provide evidence that women’s reporting of attitudes about IPV…
Divorce in the context of domestic violence against women in Vietnam
This paper examines obstacles for women who face domestic violence in making decisions about divorce and in seeking and securing support for a divorce. The research was undertaken in the context of a project in one district of a coastal province in Vietnam that sought to reduce gender based-violence and mitigate its effects. Data from in-depth interviews and focus-group discussions are used to examine abused women's attitudes, strategies and beha…
Measuring Attitudes About Intimate Partner Violence Against Women: The ATT-IPV Scale
In lower-income settings, women more often than men justify intimate partner violence (IPV). Yet, the role of measurement invariance across gender is unstudied. We developed the ATT-IPV scale to measure attitudes about physical violence against wives in 1,055 married men and women ages 18–50 in My Hao district, Vietnam. Across 10 items about transgressions of the wife, women more often than men agreed that a man had good reason to hit his wife (3…
The Influence of Gender Attitudes on Contraceptive Use in Tanzania: New Evidence Using Husbands' and Wives' Survey Data
This paper explores the hypothesis that gender attitude scales (which measure the degree of equity in gender attitudes) are associated with contraceptive use. Four hundred male and female respondents (200 couples) were interviewed using a pre-tested, structured questionnaire. Analyses included comparisons of means and prevalence rates on gender equity indicators, other related factors and socio-demographic characteristics; t -tests to compare mea…
A Survey Experiment of Women’s Attitudes About Intimate Partner Violence Against Women in Rural Bangladesh
According to the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) in poorer countries, 50 % of women of reproductive age report that wife hitting or beating is justified. Such high rates may result from structural pressures to adopt such views or to report the perceived socially desirable response. In a survey experiment of 496 ever-married women aged 18–49 years in rural Bangladesh, we compared responses to attitudinal questions that (1) replicated the 2007…
Perceived Decline in Intimate Partner Violence Against Women in Bangladesh: Qualitative Evidence
The Bangladesh government, nongovernmental organizations, donors, and advocacy groups have attempted various interventions to promote gender equality and reduce intimate partner violence (IPV) against women, but rigorous evaluations of these interventions are rare and few published studies have yet to show that any of them has had a substantial impact. This study presents qualitative evidence from four villages in central and northern Bangladesh …
Justification of Wife Beating in Rural Bangladesh: A Qualitative Analysis of Gender Differences in Responses to Survey Questions
Understanding attitudes about intimate partner violence (IPV) in cultural context is important for developing interventions to reduce it or mitigate its effects. This article presents qualitative findings from research conducted in rural Bangladesh to understand men's and women's responses to attitudinal questions about IPV. Both men and women often responded as if the questions were about their personal behavior. A few women said that their opin…
Indeterminate Responses to Attitudinal Questions About Intimate Partner Violence Against Women in Rural Bangladesh
Qualitative Study of an Operations Research Project to Engage Abused Women, Health Providers, and Communities in Responding to Gender-Based Violence in Vietnam
This article describes an action research project designed to engage women, health providers, and communities to respond to gender-based violence (GBV) in Vietnam. Based on results from in-depth interviews and group discussions, it considers the extent to which the project approaches were empowering for abused women. The results underscore the problems entailed in introducing systematic screening for gender-based violence into government health f…
Justification of Intimate Partner Violence in Rural Bangladesh: What Survey Questions Fail to Capture
This article presents qualitative findings from a project designed to develop better methodological tools for clarifying women's and men's attitudes about intimate partner violence (IPV) in rural Bangladesh and their perceptions of norms about IPV in their communities. Cognitive interviews and focus‐group discussions were used to explore respondents' subjective understanding of standard survey questions meant to elicit attitudes about IPV. We fin…
Why Does Women's Empowerment In One Generation Not Lead To Later Marriage and Childbearing In The Next: Qualitative Findings from Bangladesh
This study uses qualitative data to explore the socio-cultural processes through which women influence two proximate determinants of health and well-being-age at marriage and age at initiation of childbearing-in the next generation, and to investigate social processes that may be undermining women's empowerment and its effects across generations. Open-ended, in-depth interviews were conducted with triads of womenyoung married women, their mothers…
Women's Empowerment across Generations in Bangladesh
This study uses qualitative data to examine young women's relationships with their mothers and mothers-in-law to understand how these relationships foster empowerment in the younger generation or fail to do so. The data consist of ethnographic interviews with 20 triads of women-young married women, their mothers and their mothers-in-law. Findings show that the influence of empowerment across generations was greater in the sphere of economic empow…
Rural credit programs and women's empowerment in Bangladesh
Credit programs, patriarchy and men's violence against women in rural Bangladesh
Credit Programs, Women's Empowerment, and Contraceptive use in Rural Bangladesh
This article presents findings of research addressing the question of how women's status affects fertility. The effects on contraceptive use of women's participation in rural credit programs and on their status or level of empowerment were examined. A woman's level of empowerment is defined here as a function of her relative physical mobility, economic security, ability to make various purchases on her own, freedom from domination and violence wi…
The influence of women's changing roles and status in Bangladesh's fertility transition: Evidence from a study of credit programs and contraceptive use
Men's violence against women in rural Bangladesh: Undermined or exacerbated by microcredit programmes
Using data from a recent ethnographic study in rural Bangladesh to explore relationships between men's violence against women in the home, women's economic and social dependence on men, and microcredit programmes, this paper suggests that microcredit programmes have a varied effect on men's violence against women. They can reduce women's vulnerability to men's violence by strengthening their economic roles and making their lives more public. When…
The timing of marriage and childbearing among rural families in Bangladesh: Choosing between competing risks
Does Intimate Partner Violence Decline as Women’s Empowerment Becomes Normative? Perspectives of Bangladeshi Women
Exploring Couple Attributes and Attitudes and Marital Violence in Vietnam
Using a couple-centered approach, this study focuses on the relative attributes and attitudes of spouses as predictors of marital violence. Analysis of data from Vietnam showed that 37% of married women have ever been hit by their husbands. Regression results found that husbands with lower resources or status than their wives were more likely to have abused. Results also found that the association between husbands' gender attitudes and marital vi…
Women's Education and the Timing of Marriage and Childbearing in the Next Generation: Evidence from Rural Bangladesh
In traditional settings where early marriage and early childbearing persist, decisions about age at marriage are often made by parents, and mothers‐in‐law tend to have considerable influence in hastening the initiation of childbearing. This study analyzes data from a 2002 survey in six villages in rural Bangladesh to test the hypothesis that daughters of women with more education marry later and that daughters‐in‐law of more educated women initia…
Women's Acceptance of Intimate Partner Violence within Marriage in Rural Bangladesh
Violence against women perpetrated by husbands and male partners occurs worldwide, and an increasing number of surveys indicate that it is widely condoned. This article presents findings from a 2002 survey conducted in six rural villages in Bangladesh suggesting that an extremely high proportion of women believe that husbands’ use of violence against their wives is acceptable. To investigate the reliability and the psychosocial underpinnings of t…
Child Marriage and Intimate Partner Violence in Rural Bangladesh: A Longitudinal Multilevel Analysis
Child marriage (before age 18) is a risk factor for intimate partner violence (IPV) against women. Worldwide, Bangladesh has the highest prevalence of IPV and very early child marriage (before age 15). How the community prevalence of very early child marriage influences a woman’s risk of IPV is unknown. Using panel data (2013–2014) from 3,355 women first married 4–12 years prior in 77 Bangladeshi villages, we tested the protective effect of a wom…
Women's Rights, Domestic Violence, and Recourse Seeking in Rural Bangladesh
This article seeks to deepen understanding of the reasons that abused women in a resource-poor rural setting seek recourse so seldom and with so little success. Data from in-depth interviews and group discussions are used to explore the range of responses to domestic violence and to examine barriers to recourse seeking. Findings illustrate how the combination of poverty and gender inequality, inequities in the legal framework, and patriarchal att…
Justification of Intimate Partner Violence in Rural Bangladesh: What Survey Questions Fail to Capture
This article presents qualitative findings from a project designed to develop better methodological tools for clarifying women's and men's attitudes about intimate partner violence (IPV) in rural Bangladesh and their perceptions of norms about IPV in their communities. Cognitive interviews and focus‐group discussions were used to explore respondents' subjective understanding of standard survey questions meant to elicit attitudes about IPV. We fin…
A Survey Experiment of Women’s Attitudes About Intimate Partner Violence Against Women in Rural Bangladesh
According to the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) in poorer countries, 50 % of women of reproductive age report that wife hitting or beating is justified. Such high rates may result from structural pressures to adopt such views or to report the perceived socially desirable response. In a survey experiment of 496 ever-married women aged 18–49 years in rural Bangladesh, we compared responses to attitudinal questions that (1) replicated the 2007…
Women's empowerment revisited: A case study from Bangladesh
This article explores the changing dimensions of women's empowerment over time in three Bangladesh villages where one of the authors has been conducting research since 1991. The article discusses theoretical issues related to the measurement of women's empowerment, and describes findings from a recent study in the villages exploring the current salience of indicators developed for a 1992 survey. In the article we discuss the types of social, econ…
Justification of Wife Beating in Rural Bangladesh: A Qualitative Analysis of Gender Differences in Responses to Survey Questions
Understanding attitudes about intimate partner violence (IPV) in cultural context is important for developing interventions to reduce it or mitigate its effects. This article presents qualitative findings from research conducted in rural Bangladesh to understand men's and women's responses to attitudinal questions about IPV. Both men and women often responded as if the questions were about their personal behavior. A few women said that their opin…
Barriers to Effective Family Planning in Nepal
The Simulated Client Method: Evaluating Client-Provider Interactions in Family Planning Clinics
Dale Huntington, Sidney Ruth Schuler, The Simulated Client Method: Evaluating Client-Provider Interactions in Family Planning Clinics, Studies in Family Planning, Vol. 24, No. 3 (May - Jun., 1993), pp. 187-193
Misinformation, Mistrust, and Mistreatment: Family Planning among Bolivian Market Women
Results of an ethnographic study suggest that, despite stereotypes to the contrary, urban Aymara women in Bolivia want to regulate their fertility, and sociocultural norms support fertility regulation. However, the norms also make such regulation difficult to achieve. One barrier is a deep suspicion of modern medicine and medical practitioners, who are not seen as reliable sources of information. This suspicion is reinforced when the quality of h…
The advent of family planning as a social norm in Bangladesh: Women's Experiences
In Bangladesh family planning has broadened women's space within the family and society. Based on findings from ethnographic research in six villages, this paper describes how family planning came to be defined as a domain in which women are encouraged to take initiative, in contrast to other spheres of life. It traces women's experiences and perceptions of family planning in the context offertility transition, and examines some of the effects of…
Women’s Empowerment as a Protective Factor Against Intimate Partner Violence in Bangladesh: A Qualitative Exploration of the Process and Limitations of Its Influence
Literature on the relationship between intimate partner violence (IPV) against women and women's empowerment is contradictory. Findings from a recent survey in rural Bangladesh suggest that empowerment is becoming protective even though IPV rates remain high. We construct qualitative case studies exploring factors and social processes underlying relationships between empowerment and IPV in four villages. Empowerment may be protective against IPV …
Measuring Attitudes About Intimate Partner Violence Against Women: The ATT-IPV Scale
In lower-income settings, women more often than men justify intimate partner violence (IPV). Yet, the role of measurement invariance across gender is unstudied. We developed the ATT-IPV scale to measure attitudes about physical violence against wives in 1,055 married men and women ages 18–50 in My Hao district, Vietnam. Across 10 items about transgressions of the wife, women more often than men agreed that a man had good reason to hit his wife (3…
Perceived Decline in Intimate Partner Violence Against Women in Bangladesh: Qualitative Evidence
The Bangladesh government, nongovernmental organizations, donors, and advocacy groups have attempted various interventions to promote gender equality and reduce intimate partner violence (IPV) against women, but rigorous evaluations of these interventions are rare and few published studies have yet to show that any of them has had a substantial impact. This study presents qualitative evidence from four villages in central and northern Bangladesh …
Men's Perpetration of Intimate Partner Violence in Vietnam: Gendered Social Learning and the Challenges of Masculinity
Using the survey responses of 522 married men (eighteen to fifty-one years) in Vietnam, we explored how gendered social learning in boyhood and challenges to men's expected status in marriage may increase the risk that men perpetrate intimate partner violence (IPV) against their wives. Over one-third (36.6 percent) of the participants reported having ever perpetrated psychological, physical, or sexual IPV against their current wife. Accounting fo…
Developing indicators to assess women's empowerment in Vietnam
From mid‐1999 to mid‐2001, the authors carried out a qualitative study in rural Vietnam to explore relationships between gender equity and reproductive health. One of the study's objectives was to develop culturally appropriate indicators of women's empowerment, specific to the Vietnamese context. This paper describes the process of developing, testing, and refining the empowerment indicators, presents some of the findings, and discusses the meth…
From a Mountain-Rural to a Plains-Urban Society Implications of the 1981 Nepalese Census
Melvyn C. Goldstein, James L. Ross, Sidney Schuler, From a Mountain-Rural to a Plains-Urban Society Implications of the 1981 Nepalese Census, Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 3, No. 1 (Feb., 1983), pp. 61-64
Barriers to Effective Family Planning in Nepal
Proximate determinants of fertility in the Kathmandu valley, Nepal: An anthropological case study
This article employs the analytical model of Bongaarts and Potter to compare the proximate determinants of fertility among three populations in Nepal's Kathmandu valley with the following characteristics: (1) high and low caste, (2) urban and urban fringe residence, and (3) users and non-users of contraception. It is shown that while Nepal, as a whole, is firmly entrenched in Phase 1 of the fertility transition, each of the populations studied ha…
Family Planning in Nepal from the User's and Nonuser's Perspectives
Recent data from Nepal indicate that in the urban areas reproductive attitudes are changing much more rapidly than behavior, resulting in many unwanted births. Based on transcripts from in-depth interviews conducted in 1982 by the Urban Fertility and Contraceptive Use Project, this article analyzes the "contraceptive lag" in urban Nepal by examining contraceptive decision-making among urban couples in Kathmandu. Tracing links between attitudes, k…
The Other Side of Polyandry: Property, Stratification, and Nonmarriage in the Nepal Himalayas
The Other Side of Polyandry: Property, Stratification, and Nonmarriage in the Nepal Himalayas
Social/Cultural Anthropology: The Dynamics of Polyandry: Kinship, Domesticity, and Population on the Tibetan Border . Nancy E. Levine
The Simulated Client Method: Evaluating Client-Provider Interactions in Family Planning Clinics
Dale Huntington, Sidney Ruth Schuler, The Simulated Client Method: Evaluating Client-Provider Interactions in Family Planning Clinics, Studies in Family Planning, Vol. 24, No. 3 (May - Jun., 1993), pp. 187-193
Credit Programs, Women's Empowerment, and Contraceptive use in Rural Bangladesh
This article presents findings of research addressing the question of how women's status affects fertility. The effects on contraceptive use of women's participation in rural credit programs and on their status or level of empowerment were examined. A woman's level of empowerment is defined here as a function of her relative physical mobility, economic security, ability to make various purchases on her own, freedom from domination and violence wi…
Misinformation, Mistrust, and Mistreatment: Family Planning among Bolivian Market Women
Results of an ethnographic study suggest that, despite stereotypes to the contrary, urban Aymara women in Bolivia want to regulate their fertility, and sociocultural norms support fertility regulation. However, the norms also make such regulation difficult to achieve. One barrier is a deep suspicion of modern medicine and medical practitioners, who are not seen as reliable sources of information. This suspicion is reinforced when the quality of h…
Family Planning Outreach and Credit Programs in Rural Bangladesh
Results of this recent study in rural Bangladesh suggest that programs that draw women out of their homes and reduce their dependence on men are contributing to greater use of contraception. One such program, Grameen Bank, now has female members in nearly half of all Bangladesh villages. Participation in the program was found to be associated with high levels of contraceptive use even among women who have not been exposed to family planning outre…
Rural credit programs and women's empowerment in Bangladesh
Credit programs, patriarchy and men's violence against women in rural Bangladesh
The advent of family planning as a social norm in Bangladesh: Women's Experiences
In Bangladesh family planning has broadened women's space within the family and society. Based on findings from ethnographic research in six villages, this paper describes how family planning came to be defined as a domain in which women are encouraged to take initiative, in contrast to other spheres of life. It traces women's experiences and perceptions of family planning in the context offertility transition, and examines some of the effects of…
The influence of women's changing roles and status in Bangladesh's fertility transition: Evidence from a study of credit programs and contraceptive use
Men's violence against women in rural Bangladesh: Undermined or exacerbated by microcredit programmes
Using data from a recent ethnographic study in rural Bangladesh to explore relationships between men's violence against women in the home, women's economic and social dependence on men, and microcredit programmes, this paper suggests that microcredit programmes have a varied effect on men's violence against women. They can reduce women's vulnerability to men's violence by strengthening their economic roles and making their lives more public. When…
Gender and community participation in reproductive health projects: Contrasting models from Peru and Ghana
(1999). Gender and community participation in reproductive health projects: Contrasting models from Peru and Ghana. Reproductive Health Matters: Vol. 7, Access to reproductive health: a question of distributive justice, pp. 144-157
The next chapter in Bangladesh's demographic success story: Conflicting readings
A series of recent papers based on longitudinal research in Bangladesh warns that shifting from door-to-door contraceptive distribution to a system based on fixed facilities, satellite clinics and supply depots would undermine demand for family planning and lead to higher discontinuation, decreased contraceptive prevalence rates and diminished quality ofcare, and would reduce women's status. This paper questions the interpretations of data upon w…
Paying for reproductive health services in Bangladesh: Intersections between cost, quality and culture
In 1997 a consortium of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Bangladesh began to implement health sector reform measures intended to expand access to and improve the quality of family planning and other basic health services. The new service delivery model entails higher costs for clients and requires that they take greater initiative. Clients have to travel further to get certain services, and they have to pay more for them than they did und…
Socioeconomic Factors and Processes Associated With Domestic Violence in Rural Bangladesh
CONTEXT: Although the pervasiveness of domestic violence against women in Bangladesh is well documented, specific risk factors, particularly those that can be affected by policies and programs, are not well understood. METHODS: In 2001-2002, surveys, in-depth interviews and small group discussions were conducted with married women from six Bangladeshi villages to examine the types and severity of domestic violence, and to explore the pathways thr…
Developing indicators to assess women's empowerment in Vietnam
From mid‐1999 to mid‐2001, the authors carried out a qualitative study in rural Vietnam to explore relationships between gender equity and reproductive health. One of the study's objectives was to develop culturally appropriate indicators of women's empowerment, specific to the Vietnamese context. This paper describes the process of developing, testing, and refining the empowerment indicators, presents some of the findings, and discusses the meth…
Constructions of gender in Vietnam: In pursuit of the ‘Three Criteria’
Vietnam has advanced far beyond most other developing countries and, indeed, surpasses many developed countries in adopting a legal framework based on gender equality, and in creating institutions and programmes to support women's advancement. Inegalitarian gender norms have also persisted, however. The Vietnam Women's Union promotes women's educational, political and economic advancement but simultaneously exhorts women to pay attention to their…
Exploring Couple Attributes and Attitudes and Marital Violence in Vietnam
Using a couple-centered approach, this study focuses on the relative attributes and attitudes of spouses as predictors of marital violence. Analysis of data from Vietnam showed that 37% of married women have ever been hit by their husbands. Regression results found that husbands with lower resources or status than their wives were more likely to have abused. Results also found that the association between husbands' gender attitudes and marital vi…
The timing of marriage and childbearing among rural families in Bangladesh: Choosing between competing risks
Women's Education and the Timing of Marriage and Childbearing in the Next Generation: Evidence from Rural Bangladesh
In traditional settings where early marriage and early childbearing persist, decisions about age at marriage are often made by parents, and mothers‐in‐law tend to have considerable influence in hastening the initiation of childbearing. This study analyzes data from a 2002 survey in six villages in rural Bangladesh to test the hypothesis that daughters of women with more education marry later and that daughters‐in‐law of more educated women initia…
Sociology (41 works) · Medicine (35 works) · Psychology (27 works) · Environmental health (26 works) · Political science (26 works) · Population (26 works) · Domestic violence (24 works) · Economics (24 works) · Intimate Partner and Family Violence (24 works) · Poison control (24 works)