Women’s Assessments of Gender Equality

Kurzman, Charles; Dong, Willa; Gorman, Brandon; Hwang, Karam; Ryberg, Renee; Zaidi, Batool

doi:10.1177/2378023119872387

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“…Without FIML, the common default of listwise deletion in Model 1 (n = 113) excluded three OECD countries and 38 countries with populations of over one million, which is normal with the common criteria used for sample selection in the quantitative literature (see Appendix B). To be clear, in the social sciences, generally, the issue of missing data continues to be handled by way of listwise deletion or largely ignored, even in studies published in social science journals with an explicit focus on innovative empirical research [46][47][48][49].…”

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Homicide Rates and the Multiple Dimensions of Urbanization: A Longitudinal, Cross-National Analysis

2019

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Sustainability scholars frame urbanization as a multidimensional concept with divergent environmental impacts. Through synthesizing recent quantitative studies of urbanization in criminology, we evaluated this multidimensional framework in a longitudinal, cross-national analysis of homicide rates for 217 countries between 2000 and 2015. For the analysis, we also highlighted the issue of missing data, a common concern for cross-national scholars in a variety of disciplines. While controlling for other relevant factors, we compared results from panel models that use the common technique of listwise deletion (n = 113) and from structural equation models (SEM) that handle missing values with full information maximum likelihood (n = 216). While the estimates for the control variables are non-significant in the SEM approach, the findings for the urbanization variables were robust and multidimensional. In particular, while the proportion of the population that is urban is positively related to homicide, the proportion of the population living in large cities of at least one million inhabitants is significantly and negatively related to homicide in all models. Given our focus on urbanization, we outline our contribution not only in the context of criminology but also the cross-national sustainability literature, which often uses similar variables with missing values.

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Homicide Rates and the Multiple Dimensions of Urbanization: A Longitudinal, Cross-National Analysis

2019

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“…Based on these ques tions, we cre ate indi ca tor var i ables sep a rately for hus bands and wives, coded as 1 if a hus band/wife rejects wife beat ing (i.e., reports that it is not justi fied across all five sce nar ios) and 0 if the hus band/wife accepts wife beat ing (i.e., reports that it is jus ti fied for one or more sce nario). Consistent with the lit er a ture, we refer to rejec tion of wife beat ing as "rejec tion of IPV" even though it refers to only one form of IPV (i.e., phys i cal vio lence) across five spe cific sce nar ios (for a sim i lar approach, see Cools and Kotsadam 2017;Kurzman et al 2019;Pierotti 2013;Uthman et al 2009). 4 Based on these indi vid ual-level binary indi ca tors of IPV rejec tion, we cre ate a cat e gor i cal var i able that con sid ers the hus band-wife responses jointly (1) concor dance in rejecting IPV across all sce nar ios; (2) dis cor dance in which the hus band, but not the wife, rejects IPV across all sce nar ios; (3) dis cor dance in which the wife, but 4 In our sam ple, 2,452 wives and 1,157 hus bands reported that they do not know whether wife beat ing is jus ti fied for at least one of the sce nar ios; respon dents who reported that they "do not know" whether wife beat ing is jus ti fied are coded as 0 for that sce nario.…”

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Attitudes Toward Intimate Partner Violence in Dyadic Perspective: Evidence From Sub-Saharan Africa

Behrman

Frye

2021

Demography

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Although intimate partner violence (IPV) is inherently a relational event shaped by couple-level factors, most empirical examinations of IPV-related attitudes have used individuals as the unit of analysis. We apply a dyadic perspective to the study of attitudes about the acceptability of IPV, harnessing couple-level data from 33 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, a region characterized by particularly high levels of both the incidence and acceptance of IPV. We document considerable geographic heterogeneity in the distribution of attitudinal concordance or discordance regarding the acceptability of IPV within couples, a descriptive finding that is overlooked by studies focused on individuals as the unit of analysis. In addition, applying a dyadic perspective to the correlates of attitudinal concordance, we demonstrate that joint exposure to schooling, work, and media is more predictive of joint rejection of IPV than are singular exposures of wives or husbands. Finally, we show that distinct combinations of attitudes within couples are associated with differential likelihoods of wives reporting having recently experienced emotional, physical, or sexual IPV. In particular, when both partners reject IPV, wives are significantly less likely to report experiencing each type of IPV in the past year compared with any other combination of attitudes. Our results reveal that a dyadic perspective provides a comprehensive understanding of intracouple contexts that enhances our perspective on these important demographic outcomes.

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“…30 There is an extensive literature which suggests that educated women are more likely to adopt new technologies such as modern contraceptives and lifestyles which in due course diffuse to the new cohorts of women. 31 , 32 We characterize our target population as an innovative group. Focus on this target population provides us an opportunity to explore the impact of reproductive rights knowledge on contraceptive use in an innovative group.…”

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Reproductive Rights Knowledge, Health Care Utilization, and Contraceptive Use in Pakistan: A Reproductive Rights Perspective

Saeed¹,

Pillai²,

Gouher³

2021

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Introduction This study investigates the effects of utilization of health care and the level of reproductive rights knowledge on contraceptive use. Current family planning programs in developing countries utilize a two-pronged strategy involving improvement of level of reproductive rights and, right to access health care systems. The effectiveness of this strategy in developing countries such as Pakistan remains poorly investigated. This study aimed at examining the effect of reproductive rights knowledge on contraceptive use. Methods The target population is educated, 18- to 45-year-old married Pakistani women. The sample is composed of 160 nonrandomly selected purposive group of women. We gathered data using a structured questionnaire and analyzed the data using several multivariate methods such as latent class analysis and multiple classification analysis. Results Our results suggest that reproductive rights knowledge has no direct effect on contraceptive use. Furthermore, the level of utilization of the health care system plays a significant intervening role between reproductive rights knowledge and contraceptive use. Discussion Our results call for improving access and availability of health care while strengthening the awareness and knowledge of reproductive rights among women to improve their capacity to utilize family planning methods. Public awareness and educational programs are indeed necessary to promote knowledge of reproductive rights among women in developing countries. As public health campaigns propagandize the crucial role reproductive rights play in improving women’s reproductive health, it is important to maintain a structurally harmonious relationship between health care systems and family planning programs promoting contraceptive use. This approach is more likely to result in significant returns for public awareness campaigns promoting reproductive rights in developing countries.

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Women’s Assessments of Gender Equality

Cited by 20 publications

References 45 publications

Homicide Rates and the Multiple Dimensions of Urbanization: A Longitudinal, Cross-National Analysis

Homicide Rates and the Multiple Dimensions of Urbanization: A Longitudinal, Cross-National Analysis

Attitudes Toward Intimate Partner Violence in Dyadic Perspective: Evidence From Sub-Saharan Africa

Reproductive Rights Knowledge, Health Care Utilization, and Contraceptive Use in Pakistan: A Reproductive Rights Perspective

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