Empowerment and Reproductive Women: An Exploratory Research
Journal Title: National Journal of Community Medicine - Year 2018, Vol 9, Issue 7
Abstract
Background: Women play an im-portant role in welfare of family. High fertility continues in India ad-versely affecting poorer women, with no empowerment regarding temporary and permanent methods in family planning and also poor decision taking due to lack of free-dom in day to day activities. So as-sessment of empowerment among women explores hurdles to family planning programme and resolving them. Methodology: An exploratory study done among rural population by interviewing 150 antenatal women, 40 men and conducting focus grouped discussion(FGD) in post-natal women using purposive sam-pling and quota samplings respec-tively. Information on decision mak-ing regarding personal, household, and social issues collected and ana-lyzed and summarized. Results: Majority of the women are home makers, 47.2% belonged to age 21 to 25 years. Though 50% took decision regarding their education and 59.7% on voting by themselves, other issues like choosing life part-ners, household purchases, chil-dren’s education and income gen-eration were decisions taken from other family members with male domination. Women’s ‘decision making’ in reproductive and con-traceptive issues were limited and confined to egalitarian. Misconcep-tions regarding sterilization proce-dures were obvious in FGD. Conclusion: Women still lack free-dom in decision making in their personal, household and reproduc-tive issues, revealing gaps which needs to be addressed in term of women empowerment.
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Pradeep S Tarikere, Vidya G S
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