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- Title
Women's Agency and the Quality of Family Relationships in India.
- Authors
Allendorf, Keera
- Abstract
The role of family context in determining women's agency has been addressed through kinship patterns, household structure, and domestic violence. This study suggests that another aspect of family context-family relationship quality-can also influence women's agency. Data from the Women's Reproductive Histories Survey, collected in Madhya Pradesh, India, are used to examine whether family relationship quality is a determinant of women's agency. Results show that women with higher quality relationships with husbands and parents-in-law do have greater agency. Further, family relationship quality is just as influential as other well known determinants of agency, including education and employment.
- Subjects
INDIA; FAMILY relations; DOMESTIC violence; MARITAL quality; KINSHIP; SELF-efficacy; PARENTS-in-law
- Publication
Population Research & Policy Review, 2012, Vol 31, Issue 2, p187
- ISSN
0167-5923
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11113-012-9228-7