Maternity, pregnancy, childbirth, and the period after childbirth impose a substantial burden on women's health and time. This, in turn, can have a significant impact on women's ability to participate in the labour force. This work was aimed at investigating the effect of fertility and other determinants of women's employment in Cameroon. The expo-facto research design and pooled data from the 1991, 1998, 2004, 2011 was used. The Instrumental Variable Probit Model and Control Function were used to analyze the data. The result of the effect of fertility on women's employment in Cameroon was positive and statistically significant. Other determinants like Education, husband education, husband's occupation, marital status, region of origin, and lifetime sex partners also positive and statistically significant influence on women's employment in Cameroon. Woman's age, wealth levels, age at first birth, being a Muslim and year of data had a negative and statistically significant effect on a woman's likelihood to get employed. From the results, it was concluded that, fertility and other determinants statistically significant effect on women's in Cameroon. This study thus recommended the promulgation and subsidization of daycare services in Cameroon to increase the likehood of women with children to seek employment. The work also recommends the promotion of women's education in Cameroon so as to facilitate women's asses to employment.
Many researchers have established the link between genes and obesity. Some other researchers, in an attempt to find out why people with the same genetical setup have different body mass indexes, have amongst other factors linked it to differences in socioeconomic status, differences to dieting pattern and physical activities. A new school of thought has come up to establish the fact that differences in personalities also accounts for differences in body mass index. According to Sutin et al. (2011), personality traits contribute to health outcomes. They found a link between personality and body mass index. This study was out to investigate the effect of personality trait on obesity. We administered 1052 personality test randomly to individuals aged 20 and above in the Bamenda Municipality. The model was estimated using the regression; ANOVA and Correlation analysis. From the analysis, it was realized that there exist a positive and statistically significant relationship between personality trait and obesity. Sanguine and choleric personalities were less likely to be obese compared to melancholic and phlegmatic. The study concluded that, introverts are more likely to be obese than extroverts. It was recommended that individuals who have the melancholic and phlegmatic personality (introverts) should be more actively involved in dieting and exercising. Lastly, it was also recommended that the government of Cameroon should institute one compulsory day of the week for workers sports. All workers should have Saturday as a compulsory sporting day as done in Kenya.
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