Why Does Women's Empowerment In One Generation Not Lead To Later Marriage and Childbearing In The Next
Qualitative Findings from Bangladesh
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3038588 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sidney Ruth Schuler (0000-0002-2870-6254, Academy for Educational Development, 1825 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20009 U.S.A.), Elisabeth Rottach (Academy for Educational Development, 1825 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20009 U.S.A.) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 253-265 |
| Publication date | 2011-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Comparative Family Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-2328 • E-ISSN: 1929-9850 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/jcfs.42.2.253 |
| OpenAlex | W2598064856 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 5 |
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, and their mothers-in-law-with one of the senior women in each triad having been identified as comparatively empowered based on a set of indicators measured in a prior survey. The findings suggest the cultural meanings and social dynamics of marriage in the context of poverty and vulnerability to economic crisis are persistent constraints to later marriage and childbearing even in families of empowered women who are aware of the risks and disadvantages of early marriage and childbearing. No substantial differences were found between empowered versus unempowered women and their families in the ways that decisions about the timing of marriage and childbearing were made, nor, in general, between mothers versus mothers-in-law
Empowerment · Political science · Population · Sociology · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Demography · Medicine · Microfinance and Financial Inclusion · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2017 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |