Shireen J Jejeebhoy
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 802809 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Shireen J Jejeebhoy |
| PRENOMES | Shireen J |
| SOBRENOME | Jejeebhoy |
| ASSINATURA | JEJEEBHOY S J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Population Council |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0911-7729 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 48 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 283 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 47 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1978 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Challenges in menstrual health service delivery to girls and young women in Mumbai slums
Although India recognises its importance, good menstrual health management continues to elude women and girls in disadvantaged areas including urban slums, and the role of health care providers is poorly understood. Our objective in this study was to explore the perspectives of healthcare providers regarding the challenges faced in delivering menstrual health services to girls and young women. A total of 16 key informant interviews were conducted…
Male engagement in menstrual care
Menstrual health and rights are increasingly recognised as not solely women's issues, yet in patriarchal settings, boys and men remain excluded from menstruation-related matters. Evidence on their supportive roles, particularly in resource-poor settings, remains limited. We examined the support provided by boys and young men to mothers and sisters during menstruation in a disadvantaged urban context in India and identifed factors associated with …
Revisiting Women's Empowerment and Contraception
This essay explores and reviews the literature from low- and middle-income countries on the pathways of influence between women's empowerment and reproductive outcomes, specially focusing on contraception, and points to some outstanding gaps. We adopt a framework that assesses the influence of contextual factors, notably kinship structures, and marriage systems, on women's empowerment and agency and other transformational factors affecting women'…
What Prevents Adolescent Girls from Transitioning from School to Work in India? Insights from an Exploratory Study in Rajasthan
Female labour force participation among young women in India is disturbingly low, and yet little evidence is available regarding the factors likely to affect the school-to-work transition among the young. Data from 325 girls aged 15–19 years and in-depth interviews with 10 of these girls and 9 of their mothers in one block of Jodhpur district, obtained from a mixed-methods study in Rajasthan, explore girls’ aspirations for professional, administr…
Abortion among married young women
Abortion service provision has changed noticeably in the recent past and medication abortion currently accounts for four-fifths of all induced abortions taking place in India. How these changes have modified abortion experiences among young women – a group known to be more disadvantaged than adult women – remains unanswered. This paper fills this gap and examines the experiences of married young abortion seekers, including pre-abortion decision-m…
Transforming the attitudes of young men about gender roles and the acceptability of violence against women, Bihar
Although the importance of working with young men to transform traditional gender norms has been widely acknowledged, programmes for young men remain sparse in highly gender stratified settings such as India, and those that have been implemented have not reached those in rural areas and those out-of-school. Drawing on data from a cluster randomised controlled trial with panel surveys, of a gender-transformative life skills education and sports-co…
Preventing violence against women and girls in Bihar
While there are a growing number of interventions and evaluations of programmes aimed at changing gender norms and violence against women and girls, there remains a dearth of documentation outlining the challenges faced in conducting these interventions and evaluations, particularly in traditional and low literacy settings. The Do Kadam Barabari Ki Ore (Two Steps Towards Equality) programme sought to understand what works to prevent violence agai…
Meeting Contraceptive Needs
CONTEXT: Although interventions such as the PRACHAR project in Bihar, India, have been associated with increased contraceptive knowledge and use in the short term, less is known about whether such gains are sustained years later. METHODS: Survey data, collected in 2013 from 2,846 married women aged 15-34, were used to compare contraceptive awareness and use between those who lived in areas where the PRACHAR project had been implemented in 2002-20…
Sexual and reproductive health and rights of adolescent girls
This paper reviews the evidence on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) of adolescent girls in low-income and middle-income countries (LMIC) in light of the policy and programme commitments made at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), analyses progress since 1994, and maps challenges in and opportunities for protecting their health and human rights. Findings indicate that many countries have yet to make s…
School quality and its association with agency and academic achievements in girls and boys in secondary schools
Violence against women in South Asia
Intimate partner violence is pervasive in South Asia, yet married women's experiences regarding seeking help when faced with intimate partner violence and the health sector response remain largely unexplored. This commentary reviews the available published and unpublished literature and summarises what is known about the prevalence of marital violence against women and violence-related care-seeking experienced by women in this region. The comment…
Demand for Contraception to Delay First Pregnancy among Young Married Women in India
In India, evidence is sparse regarding the demand for contraception to delay first pregnancy among married young people. Using data drawn from a study conducted in six Indian states among 9,572 women aged 15–24 who were married for five or fewer years, we explore the scope of this demand, the extent to which it has been satisfied, and, using logistic regression analyses, the factors correlated with contraceptive use to delay first pregnancy among…
Adolescents' perceptions of health from disadvantaged urban communities
Unsuccessful Prior Attempts to Terminate Pregnancy Among Women Seeking First Trimester Abortion at Registered Facilities in Bihar and Jharkhand, India
Many abortion seekers in India attempt to induce abortion on their own, by accessing oral medication/preparations from a chemist without a prescription or from an unauthorized provider, and present at registered facilities if these attempts fail. However, little is known about those whose efforts fail or the ways in which programmes and policies may address the needs of such women. This paper explores the experiences of women whose efforts failed…
Physical and sexual violence and symptoms of gynaecological morbidity among married young women in India
Evidence from India about young women's experience of physical and sexual violence within marriage and its sexual and reproductive health consequences is limited. Data, drawn from 12,220 married women ages 15-24 years old from six Indian states, were used to identify associations between the experience of violence and recent symptoms of gynaecological morbidity, using logistic regression analysis. Young women who had experienced physical, sexual,…
Meeting the commitments of the ICPD Programme of Action to young people
Some of the commitments nations have made in international agreements, notably in the ICPD Programme of Action (1994) and the resolution of the UN Committee on Population & Development (2012), to young people include: realisation of the right to education and attainment of a secondary school education; delaying marriage beyond childhood and ensuring free and full choice in marriage-related decisions; exercise of the right to health, including acc…
Exploring Associations between Mobility and Sexual Experiences among Unmarried Young People
This study examines mobility (short-term movement involving stays away from home) among unmarried youths in India and its association with their sexual experiences. We look at unmarried young women and men aged 15 to 24 from rural and urban areas in six states in India-Bihar, Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Tamil Nadu. Data are drawn from a subnationally representative study of Indian youths, in which 11,522 young men and 1…
Feasibility of Expanding the Medication Abortion Provider Base in India to Include Ayurvedic Physicians and Nurses
CONTEXT: The availability of trained abortion providers is limited in India. Allowing ayurvedic physicians and nurses to perform medication abortions may improve women's access to the procedure, but it is unclear whether these clinicians can provide these services safely and effectively. METHODS: Allopathic physicians, ayurvedic physicians and nurses (10 of each), none of whom had experience in abortion provision, were trained to perform medicati…
Factors associated with second trimester abortion in rural Maharashtra and Rajasthan, India
Many married women in India experience abortion in their second trimester of pregnancy. While there is an impression that second trimester abortions are now overwhelmingly used for sex selection, little is known about the extent to which second trimester abortions are indeed associated with son preference and sex selection motives, relative to other factors. Using data from a community-based study in rural Maharashtra and Rajasthan, research high…
Experiences of unmarried young abortion-seekers in Bihar and Jharkhand, India
While several studies have documented the prevalence of unprotected pre-marital sex among young people in India, little work has explored one of its likely consequences, unintended pregnancy and abortion. This paper examines the experiences of 26 unmarried young abortion-seekers (aged 15-24) interviewed in depth as part of a larger study of unmarried abortion-seekers at clinics run by an NGO in Bihar and Jharkhand. Findings reveal that recognitio…
Marriage-Related Decision-Making and Young Women's Marital Relations and Agency
There is little research that has explored how marriage arrangements, i.e., family-arranged, semi-arranged marriages with some say in spouse selection and self-arranged marriages, affect young women's married life in settings traditionally characterised by arranged marriage. Using data from 13,912 married young women aged 15–24 in India, we explore associations between marriage arrangements and young women's marital relations and agency. Logistic…
Condom Use Before Marriage and Its Correlates
CONTEXT: Little evidence is available from India concerning young people's use of condoms in premarital relationships. METHODS: Data from a subnationally representative study of Indian youth conducted in 2006-2008 were used to assess condom use in premarital relationships. Analyses used survey data from 2,408 married or unmarried youth aged 15-24 who had had premarital sex, and qualitative data from 271 such youth who completed in-depth interview…
Timing of first sex before marriage and its correlates
While several studies have documented the extent of pre-marital sexual experience among young people in India, little work has been done to explore the factors that are correlated with the timing of pre-marital sexual initiation. This paper examines age at initiation of pre-marital sex, circumstances in which first sex was experienced, nature of first sexual experience and correlates of age at initiation of pre-marital sex. Life table estimates s…
Abortion Experiences of Unmarried Young Women In India
Associations Between Early Marriage and Young Women’s Marital and Reproductive Health Outcomes
Women's Autonomy in India and Pakistan
This article compares the lives of women and explores dimensions of their autonomy in different regions of South Asia-Punjab in Pakistan, and Uttar Pradesh in north India and Tamil Nadu in south India. It explores the contextual factors underlying observed differences and assesses the extent to which these differences could be attributed to religion, nationality, or north-south cultural distinctions. Findings suggest that while women's autonomy-i…
Individual and Contextual Determinants of Domestic Violence in North India
Objectives. We examined individual- and community-level influences on domestic violence in Uttar Pradesh, North India. Methods. Multilevel modeling was used to explore domestic violence outcomes among a sample of 4520 married men. Results. Recent physical and sexual domestic violence was associated with the individual-level variables of childlessness, economic pressure, and intergenerational transmission of violence. A community environment of vi…
Convergence and Divergence in Spouses' Perspectives on Women's Autonomy in Rural India
This study explores similarities and differences in the perceptions of rural Indian women and their husbands with regard to various dimensions of women's autonomy and investigates the extent to which various reproductive outcomes—contraception, unmet need, recent fertility, and spousal communication—are influenced by individual partners' views of women's autonomy. Data are drawn from a 1993–94 community‐based study of women's autonomy in Uttar Pr…
Associations between Wife-Beating and Fetal and Infant Death
This report examines the linkages between wife-beating and one health-related consequence for women, their experience of fetal and infant mortality. Community-based data are used drawn from women surveyed in two culturally distinct sites of rural India: Uttar Pradesh in the north, in which gender relations are highly stratified, and Tamil Nadu in the south, in which they are more egalitarian. Results suggest that wife-beating is deeply entrenched…
Marriage-Related Decision-Making and Young Women's Marital Relations and Agency
There is little research that has explored how marriage arrangements, i.e., family-arranged, semi-arranged marriages with some say in spouse selection and self-arranged marriages, affect young women's married life in settings traditionally characterised by arranged marriage. Using data from 13,912 married young women aged 15–24 in India, we explore associations between marriage arrangements and young women's marital relations and agency. Logistic…
Women's Status and Fertility
This study explores linkages between the status of women and fertility over time in Tamil Nadu, India, using sample survey data for currently married women aged 35-44 in 1970 and 1980. The effects of individual indicators of the status of women on fertility are decomposed into effects through each of the proximate variables, notably those affecting marriage duration, marital fertility, and contraception. There is considerable variation in the dir…
Adolescents' perceptions of health from disadvantaged urban communities
Romance and Sex
Using qualitative and survey data in a rural and an urban slum setting in Pune district, India, this paper describes patterns of pre-marital romantic partnerships among young people aged 15-24, in spite of norms that discourage opposite-sex interaction before marriage. 25-40% of young men and 14-17% of young women reported opposite-sex friends. Most young people devised strategies to interact with others, largely from the same neighbourhood. Ther…
Investigating women's s gynaecological morbidity in India
This paper discusses major lessons learnt from seven community-based prevalence studies of gynaecological morbidity among poor women in India, methodological challenges associated with this research and implications for future research: (i) close interaction with the community is an important determinant of a successful study; (ii) appropriate medical treatment should be provided to respondents, as it maybe the only opportunity to address many wo…
Reproductive Motivation
This study compares family size preferences, ideal sex compositions, and the motivation underlying these preferences between currently married women and their husbands in a transitional rural society in India. Reasons for having children, though similar, differ in some important respects: women's family size preferences are shaped largely by their dependence on sons for old age and other support; their husbands are affected by this motive as well…
Demand for Contraception to Delay First Pregnancy among Young Married Women in India
In India, evidence is sparse regarding the demand for contraception to delay first pregnancy among married young people. Using data drawn from a study conducted in six Indian states among 9,572 women aged 15–24 who were married for five or fewer years, we explore the scope of this demand, the extent to which it has been satisfied, and, using logistic regression analyses, the factors correlated with contraceptive use to delay first pregnancy among…
Experience seeking abortion among unmarried young women in Bihar and Jharkhand, India
Studies suggest that the experiences of unmarried young women seeking abortion in India differ from those of their married counterparts, but the evidence is limited. Research was undertaken among nulliparous young women aged 15–24 who had abortions at the clinics of a leading NGO in Bihar and Jharkhand. Over a 14-month period in 2007–08, 246 married and 549 unmarried young abortion seekers were surveyed and 26 who were unmarried were interviewed …
Cohort Consistency in Family Size Preferences
Retrospective responses concerning ideal family size have been criticized as variable notions that are adjusted continuously according to parity, age, and actual fertility experience. With reference to 2 synthetic cohorts in Taiwan (born in 1934-38 and 1939-43), over an 8 year period from 1965 to 1973, this study reveals considerable consistency in mean ideal family size responses, despite changes in actual fertility and regulation practices. Thi…
Revisiting Women's Empowerment and Contraception
This essay explores and reviews the literature from low- and middle-income countries on the pathways of influence between women's empowerment and reproductive outcomes, specially focusing on contraception, and points to some outstanding gaps. We adopt a framework that assesses the influence of contextual factors, notably kinship structures, and marriage systems, on women's empowerment and agency and other transformational factors affecting women'…
The Shift from Natural to Controlled Fertility
This study investigates the causes of the transition from natural to controlled fertility in India by comparing couples who have ever used contraception with those who remained under natural fertility conditions. Using sample study data this paper considers the relative effects of the factors involved in the shift to controlled fertility among ten early-transitional Indian States in 1970. The results indicate that it is primarily improvements in …
New Perspectives on the Demographic Transition
Factors Affecting Fertility Control in India
K. Srinivasan, Shireen J. Jejeebhoy, Richard A. Easterlin, Eileen M. Crimmins, Factors Affecting Fertility Control in India: A Cross-Sectional Study, Population and Development Review, Vol. 10, No. 2 (Jun., 1984), pp. 273-296
Preventing violence against women and girls in Bihar
While there are a growing number of interventions and evaluations of programmes aimed at changing gender norms and violence against women and girls, there remains a dearth of documentation outlining the challenges faced in conducting these interventions and evaluations, particularly in traditional and low literacy settings. The Do Kadam Barabari Ki Ore (Two Steps Towards Equality) programme sought to understand what works to prevent violence agai…
School quality and its association with agency and academic achievements in girls and boys in secondary schools
Exploring Associations between Mobility and Sexual Experiences among Unmarried Young People
This study examines mobility (short-term movement involving stays away from home) among unmarried youths in India and its association with their sexual experiences. We look at unmarried young women and men aged 15 to 24 from rural and urban areas in six states in India-Bihar, Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Tamil Nadu. Data are drawn from a subnationally representative study of Indian youths, in which 11,522 young men and 1…
Household type and family size in Maharashtra, 1970
Demographic transition theory expectations notwithstanding, empirical analyses have often observed higher fertility among nuclear than among extended households. A similar finding has been observed consistently at all stages of the reproductive career among a sample of households in Maharashtra, India, in 1970. Neither differential levels of natural fertility nor of family‐size preferences and use of fertility regulation, nor differential socioec…
The Transition from Natural to Controlled Fertility in Taiwan
Three factors are usually proposed as inducing the transition from natural to regulated fertility. Fertility regulation may occur when the demand for children is reduced; when general attitudes toward fertility regulaton become positive; and, finally, when such factors as infant and child survival prospects and natural fertility conditions improve. Applying the Easterlin framework for fertility determination, this paper considers the effect of th…
The Transition from Natural to Controlled Fertility in Taiwan
Three factors are usually proposed as inducing the transition from natural to regulated fertility. Fertility regulation may occur when the demand for children is reduced; when general attitudes toward fertility regulaton become positive; and, finally, when such factors as infant and child survival prospects and natural fertility conditions improve. Applying the Easterlin framework for fertility determination, this paper considers the effect of th…
Cohort Consistency in Family Size Preferences
Retrospective responses concerning ideal family size have been criticized as variable notions that are adjusted continuously according to parity, age, and actual fertility experience. With reference to 2 synthetic cohorts in Taiwan (born in 1934-38 and 1939-43), over an 8 year period from 1965 to 1973, this study reveals considerable consistency in mean ideal family size responses, despite changes in actual fertility and regulation practices. Thi…
Evidence of increasing natural fertility in Taiwan
A comparison of the age‐specific marital fertility experience of three successive cohorts in Taiwan indicates that the later cohorts have experienced progressively higher rates of natural fertility at each age from 15–19 to 35–39. Their fecundability is correspondingly higher and post‐partum sterility, shorter. These changes in natural fertility levels occurred almost simultaneously with recorded changes in health and nutrition levels. These find…
The Shift from Natural to Controlled Fertility
This study investigates the causes of the transition from natural to controlled fertility in India by comparing couples who have ever used contraception with those who remained under natural fertility conditions. Using sample study data this paper considers the relative effects of the factors involved in the shift to controlled fertility among ten early-transitional Indian States in 1970. The results indicate that it is primarily improvements in …
Household type and family size in Maharashtra, 1970
Demographic transition theory expectations notwithstanding, empirical analyses have often observed higher fertility among nuclear than among extended households. A similar finding has been observed consistently at all stages of the reproductive career among a sample of households in Maharashtra, India, in 1970. Neither differential levels of natural fertility nor of family‐size preferences and use of fertility regulation, nor differential socioec…
New Perspectives on the Demographic Transition
Factors Affecting Fertility Control in India
K. Srinivasan, Shireen J. Jejeebhoy, Richard A. Easterlin, Eileen M. Crimmins, Factors Affecting Fertility Control in India: A Cross-Sectional Study, Population and Development Review, Vol. 10, No. 2 (Jun., 1984), pp. 273-296
Household type and family size in Maharashtra, 1970
The purpose of this paper is to examine the pattern of the relationship between household type and fertility and to explore some of the mechanisms which may underlie this relationship in Maharashtra 1 of the most modernized states in India and which may be said to be at an intermediate stage in terms of both general development and fertility transition. The analysis consideres this relathionship for married women aged 15-44. The data for the stud…
Reproductive Motivation
This study compares family size preferences, ideal sex compositions, and the motivation underlying these preferences between currently married women and their husbands in a transitional rural society in India. Reasons for having children, though similar, differ in some important respects: women's family size preferences are shaped largely by their dependence on sons for old age and other support; their husbands are affected by this motive as well…
Women's Status and Fertility
This study explores linkages between the status of women and fertility over time in Tamil Nadu, India, using sample survey data for currently married women aged 35-44 in 1970 and 1980. The effects of individual indicators of the status of women on fertility are decomposed into effects through each of the proximate variables, notably those affecting marriage duration, marital fertility, and contraception. There is considerable variation in the dir…
Women’s Education, Autonomy, and Reproductive Behaviour
Women's access to education has been recognized as a fundamental right. At the national level, educating women results in improved productivity, income, and economic development, as well as a better quality of life, notably a healthier and better nourished population. It is important for all kinds of demographic behaviour, affecting mortality, health, fertility, and contraception, The personal benefits that women attach to education vary widely a…
Women's Education, Autonomy, and Reproductive Behaviour
Women's access to education has been recognized as a fundamental right. At the national level, educating women results in improved productivity, income, and economic development, as well as a better quality of life, notably a healthier and better nourished population. It is important for all kinds of demographic behaviour, affecting mortality, health, fertility, and contraception, The personal benefits that women attach to education vary widely a…
Women's Education, Autonomy and Reproductive Behaviour
Adolescent sexual and reproductive behavior
Associations between Wife-Beating and Fetal and Infant Death
This report examines the linkages between wife-beating and one health-related consequence for women, their experience of fetal and infant mortality. Community-based data are used drawn from women surveyed in two culturally distinct sites of rural India: Uttar Pradesh in the north, in which gender relations are highly stratified, and Tamil Nadu in the south, in which they are more egalitarian. Results suggest that wife-beating is deeply entrenched…
Investigating women's s gynaecological morbidity in India
This paper discusses major lessons learnt from seven community-based prevalence studies of gynaecological morbidity among poor women in India, methodological challenges associated with this research and implications for future research: (i) close interaction with the community is an important determinant of a successful study; (ii) appropriate medical treatment should be provided to respondents, as it maybe the only opportunity to address many wo…
Women’s Autonomy in Rural India
Important in the concept of autonomy is whether women are in control of their own lives—the extent to which they have an equal voice in matters affecting themselves and their families, control over material and other resources, access to knowledge and information, the authority to make independent decisions, freedom from constraints on physical mobility, and the ability to forge equitable power relationships within families. Unfortunately, these …
Women's Autonomy in India and Pakistan
This article compares the lives of women and explores dimensions of their autonomy in different regions of South Asia-Punjab in Pakistan, and Uttar Pradesh in north India and Tamil Nadu in south India. It explores the contextual factors underlying observed differences and assesses the extent to which these differences could be attributed to religion, nationality, or north-south cultural distinctions. Findings suggest that while women's autonomy-i…
Convergence and Divergence in Spouses' Perspectives on Women's Autonomy in Rural India
This study explores similarities and differences in the perceptions of rural Indian women and their husbands with regard to various dimensions of women's autonomy and investigates the extent to which various reproductive outcomes—contraception, unmet need, recent fertility, and spousal communication—are influenced by individual partners' views of women's autonomy. Data are drawn from a 1993–94 community‐based study of women's autonomy in Uttar Pr…
Sex Without Consent
The pressing need to break the silence on non-consensual sex among young people – an issue shrouded by denial, underreporting and stigma – is self-evident. Despite the growing body of research regarding young people’s sexual behaviours, the study of coercive sexual experiences has generally been overlooked by both researchers and national programmes. Available evidence has been scattered and unrepresentative and despite this evidence, non-consens…
Individual and Contextual Determinants of Domestic Violence in North India
Objectives. We examined individual- and community-level influences on domestic violence in Uttar Pradesh, North India. Methods. Multilevel modeling was used to explore domestic violence outcomes among a sample of 4520 married men. Results. Recent physical and sexual domestic violence was associated with the individual-level variables of childlessness, economic pressure, and intergenerational transmission of violence. A community environment of vi…
Romance and Sex
Using qualitative and survey data in a rural and an urban slum setting in Pune district, India, this paper describes patterns of pre-marital romantic partnerships among young people aged 15-24, in spite of norms that discourage opposite-sex interaction before marriage. 25-40% of young men and 14-17% of young women reported opposite-sex friends. Most young people devised strategies to interact with others, largely from the same neighbourhood. Ther…
Abortion Experiences of Unmarried Young Women In India
Associations Between Early Marriage and Young Women’s Marital and Reproductive Health Outcomes
Experience seeking abortion among unmarried young women in Bihar and Jharkhand, India
Studies suggest that the experiences of unmarried young women seeking abortion in India differ from those of their married counterparts, but the evidence is limited. Research was undertaken among nulliparous young women aged 15–24 who had abortions at the clinics of a leading NGO in Bihar and Jharkhand. Over a 14-month period in 2007–08, 246 married and 549 unmarried young abortion seekers were surveyed and 26 who were unmarried were interviewed …
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