Sex Bias in Intrahousehold Food Distribution: Roles of Ethnicity and Socioeconomic Characteristics

Basu, Amitabha; Roy, Sarabindu; Mukhopadhyay, Barun; Bharati, Premananda; Gupta, Ranjan; Majumder, Partha P.

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“…This study only included women to remove gender as a confounding factor because research on women living in Hindu Nepal and India report low social status for women (Allen, ; Basu et al, ; Bennett, ; Cameron, ; Sharma 1980; Trawich, ), as indicated by preferential treatment of males over females in terms of dietary intake, health, and education, and Hindu ideologies regarding views on pollution and purity of females (Bennett, ; Cameron, ; Gittelsohn, ; Gittelsohn and Vastine, ; Miller, ). Women are considered more impure than men, and during menses they are viewed as “polluted” or “unclean” and may not worship, cook, purchase food for others, or clean house (Bennett, ), this is especially true for high caste and pahardi women.…”

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Determinants of western food adoption among hindu nepalese women living in the Kathmandu valley

Smith

2013

American J Hum Biol

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Determinants of western food adoption among hindu nepalese women living in the Kathmandu valley

Smith

2013

American J Hum Biol

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“…Therefore, we expect Hindus to exhibit stronger son preference than non‐Hindus. Moreover, higher caste members generally exhibit greater son preference than do lower caste or tribal group members (Basu et al, 1986; Miller, 1981). Low caste members may exhibit weaker son preference because of lesser adherence to religious rituals.…”

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Sex Composition of Children and Marital Disruption in India

Bose¹,

South²

2003

J of Marriage and Family

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ࡗ Sex Composition of Children and Marital Disruption in IndiaAlthough it has been suggested that parents of sons are less likely than parents of daughters to divorce, few studies have explored this relationship in societies characterized by a strong preference for sons, where such an effect should be most pronounced. Using data from 116,498 once-married female respondents to the 1992-1993 and 1998-1999 Indian National Family Health Surveys, we found that at lower parities, having at least one son is associated with a significantly lower risk of divorce or separation. Moreover, with few exceptions, the effect of children's sex composition on the risk of divorce holds for subgroups of Indian women across categories of education, religion, location (urban vs. rural), caste, cohort, and region.Hailed as one of the most interesting findings from research on the determinants of divorce during the 1980s (White, 1990), Morgan, Lye, and Condran (1988) showed that in the United States, parents of sons are less likely than parents of daughters to dissolve their marriage. Morgan et al. interpreted this finding by arguing that greater father involvement in raising a son lowers the risk of marital disruption in these families. More recent studies question the strength and generality of the effect of children's sex composition on di-

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“…It is very clear from the result ( Table 2) that females of the tea garden suffer more than the males; even vitamin deficiency diseases are more frequent among females, may be due to frequent child bearing or pregnancy. A very high frequency of anaemia among females was reported due to deprivation of food [22]. Overall mortality rates are higher in the present tea garden population (Table 3) compared to census data of the district, perhaps due to living in unhygienic condition and poor nutritional status of the mothers.…”

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“…The results of the present study are based on the following kinds of data: morbidity pattern, perceived health status or subjective well-being, selected health practices, and some qualitative observations on cognition and threshold of health status of the participants, presented here as case studies. All these data were collected among the adult members (≥18 years of age) of the sample using the pretested questionnaires from earlier studies by the first author [8,[22][23][24][25]] Data on morbidity pattern included self-reported frequency of ailment symptoms in last three months among and were collected along with other demographic parameters [26]. Data on perceived health status or subjective well-being were measured by asking the adult participants to rate their current state of well-being into a five scale rating: "very good, " "good, " "fair, " "bad, " and "very bad".…”

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Health: Cognition and Threshold among the Oraon Tea Garden Labourers of Jalpaiguri District, West Bengal

Chakraborty

Mozumdar

2013

Journal of Anthropology

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There is scarcity of health information in many subpopulations in India, which needs to be explored for formulating effective public health policy. Studies on the tea garden population revealed that poor socioeconomic conditions, ignorance due to illiteracy, culture and food habit, overcrowding, and unhygienic living conditions make the population vulnerable to various communicable and noncommunicable diseases and malnutrition. Data were collected from the labourers of Birpara and Dalgaon tea gardens of Jalpaiguri district, West Bengal. The objective was to identify the primary health care available vis-à-vis the health problems. The results were based on mortality data, subjective well-being, frequency of ailment symptoms, perceived health status, and selected health practices as well as some observations, which indicate their cognition and threshold regarding health problems, presented as case studies. Mortality rates were high in the population; comparative mortality data shows no considerable change in mortality rate over time and space. A very high frequency of anaemia was prevalent among females along with sore throat and abdominal pain. Perceived health status of most of the people was good, although that was not always true, because the perception of the people often depends on their threshold and cognition about health and disease.

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Sex Bias in Intrahousehold Food Distribution: Roles of Ethnicity and Socioeconomic Characteristics

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Determinants of western food adoption among hindu nepalese women living in the Kathmandu valley

Determinants of western food adoption among hindu nepalese women living in the Kathmandu valley

Sex Composition of Children and Marital Disruption in India

Health: Cognition and Threshold among the Oraon Tea Garden Labourers of Jalpaiguri District, West Bengal

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