Understanding Women's Empowerment: A Comparative Analysis of Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Data"This report examines the distribution and correlates of two different dimensions of the empowerment of currently married women age 15-49 in 23 developing countries"--Page xv. |
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5-9 years younger age difference Wife Armenia background characteristics beating is justified Benin Bolivia Burkina Faso Cambodia Cameroon Categories in italics Children ever born Community-level variables Percentage daily needs employment for cash empowerment variables exposure No regular family or friends Family structure Nuclear gender-role attitudes Ghana Haiti high school n/a husbands have completed Indonesia joint decisionmaking Kenya large household purchases Less than 18 Malawi Mali marriage Less Morocco Mozambique n/a n/a n/a Nepal Nicaragua Nigeria number of children number of countries Numbers in bold odds ratios estimated Percentage of women Philippines purchases for daily reference category refuse sex regular exposure relationship Residence Rural right to refuse Rwanda Secondary or higher sexually transmitted disease significantly different p>0.05 specified reason Spousal age difference sub-Saharan Africa television at least Uganda Visits to family Wealth index Poorest Wife is 0-4 Wife is 5-9 Woman's own health women who watch women whose husbands Zambia Zimbabwe