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A community-based, cross-sectional study of gender egalitarianism: A promising scenario from an urban field practice area attached to a teaching institute from Central India

CONTEXT: Gender-based discrimination is more predominant in India. In spite of various laws, gender inequality is an evil that plagues society even today. This is an important challenge for meeting our Sustainable Development Goals. METHODS: This cross-sectional study was carried out in an urban fie...

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Autores principales: Choudhary, Sanjeev M., Kubde, Sanjay, Ukey, Ujwala U., Agrawal, Sanjay B., Shinde, Rani R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9731034/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36505561
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_47_22
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author Choudhary, Sanjeev M.
Kubde, Sanjay
Ukey, Ujwala U.
Agrawal, Sanjay B.
Shinde, Rani R.
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Kubde, Sanjay
Ukey, Ujwala U.
Agrawal, Sanjay B.
Shinde, Rani R.
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description CONTEXT: Gender-based discrimination is more predominant in India. In spite of various laws, gender inequality is an evil that plagues society even today. This is an important challenge for meeting our Sustainable Development Goals. METHODS: This cross-sectional study was carried out in an urban field practice area. Study subjects were married women and their husbands in the age-group of 15–49 years along with their under-five children. Gender egalitarianism was assessed for factors like education, employment and media exposure. Factors which were studied for revealing gender egalitarianism among children included sex ratio, immunization status, nutritional status and health care expenditure. Completed family size and preference for the sex of the child were enquired about to assess the inclination towards male gender of the baby. Anthro software was used for statistical analysis. RESULTS: Gender egalitarianism was found with regards to education. However, significant difference was noted in the employment status of men and women. Overall, sex ratio was in favor of girls. Though gender inequality was evident from the results, it was more in favor of girls. There was no evidence of gender bias for immunization of children. It was observed that more boys were stunted than girls and almost equal proportion of boys and girls were wasted. CONCLUSIONS: Factors like high literacy, control over income, access to financial resources made women more empowered and such empowered women were less likely to show son preference. Hence, there was no gender inequality among children in the present study.
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spelling pubmed-97310342022-12-09 A community-based, cross-sectional study of gender egalitarianism: A promising scenario from an urban field practice area attached to a teaching institute from Central India Choudhary, Sanjeev M. Kubde, Sanjay Ukey, Ujwala U. Agrawal, Sanjay B. Shinde, Rani R. J Family Med Prim Care Original Article CONTEXT: Gender-based discrimination is more predominant in India. In spite of various laws, gender inequality is an evil that plagues society even today. This is an important challenge for meeting our Sustainable Development Goals. METHODS: This cross-sectional study was carried out in an urban field practice area. Study subjects were married women and their husbands in the age-group of 15–49 years along with their under-five children. Gender egalitarianism was assessed for factors like education, employment and media exposure. Factors which were studied for revealing gender egalitarianism among children included sex ratio, immunization status, nutritional status and health care expenditure. Completed family size and preference for the sex of the child were enquired about to assess the inclination towards male gender of the baby. Anthro software was used for statistical analysis. RESULTS: Gender egalitarianism was found with regards to education. However, significant difference was noted in the employment status of men and women. Overall, sex ratio was in favor of girls. Though gender inequality was evident from the results, it was more in favor of girls. There was no evidence of gender bias for immunization of children. It was observed that more boys were stunted than girls and almost equal proportion of boys and girls were wasted. CONCLUSIONS: Factors like high literacy, control over income, access to financial resources made women more empowered and such empowered women were less likely to show son preference. Hence, there was no gender inequality among children in the present study. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022-09 2022-10-14 /pmc/articles/PMC9731034/ /pubmed/36505561 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_47_22 Text en Copyright: © 2022 Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Choudhary, Sanjeev M.
Kubde, Sanjay
Ukey, Ujwala U.
Agrawal, Sanjay B.
Shinde, Rani R.
A community-based, cross-sectional study of gender egalitarianism: A promising scenario from an urban field practice area attached to a teaching institute from Central India
title A community-based, cross-sectional study of gender egalitarianism: A promising scenario from an urban field practice area attached to a teaching institute from Central India
title_full A community-based, cross-sectional study of gender egalitarianism: A promising scenario from an urban field practice area attached to a teaching institute from Central India
title_fullStr A community-based, cross-sectional study of gender egalitarianism: A promising scenario from an urban field practice area attached to a teaching institute from Central India
title_full_unstemmed A community-based, cross-sectional study of gender egalitarianism: A promising scenario from an urban field practice area attached to a teaching institute from Central India
title_short A community-based, cross-sectional study of gender egalitarianism: A promising scenario from an urban field practice area attached to a teaching institute from Central India
title_sort community-based, cross-sectional study of gender egalitarianism: a promising scenario from an urban field practice area attached to a teaching institute from central india
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9731034/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36505561
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_47_22
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