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- Title
Can a Gender Equity and Family Planning Intervention for Men Change Their Gender Ideology? Results from the CHARM Intervention in Rural India.
- Authors
Fleming, Paul J.; Silverman, Jay; Ghule, Mohan; Ritter, Julie; Battala, Madhusudana; Velhal, Gajanan; Nair, Saritha; Dasgupta, Anindita; Donta, Balaiah; Saggurti, Niranjan; Raj, Anita
- Abstract
We assess the effect of CHARM, a gender equity and family planning counseling intervention for husbands in rural India, on men's gender ideology. We used a two-armed cluster randomized control trial design and collected survey data from husbands (n=1081) at baseline, 9 months, and 18 months. We used a continuous measure of support for gender equity and a dichotomous measure of equitable attitudes toward women's role in household decision-making. To assess differences on these outcomes, we used generalized linear mixed models. After controlling for socio-demographic factors, men who received the CHARM intervention were significantly more likely than men in the control group to have equitable attitudes toward household decision-making at 9-months follow-up; there was a non-significant difference between the groups for the measure of support for gender equity. For household decision-making, differences were not sustained at 18-months follow-up. Given the role of husbands' gender ideology in women's contraceptive use, the CHARM intervention represents a promising approach for challenging root causes of women's unmet need for contraception.
- Subjects
INDIA; GENDER inequality -- Social aspects; ATTITUDES toward family planning; FAMILY planning; IDEOLOGY; CONTRACEPTION &; society; ETHICS; CONTRACEPTION; COMPARATIVE studies; DECISION making; LONGITUDINAL method; MASCULINITY; RESEARCH methodology; MEDICAL cooperation; RESEARCH; RURAL population; STATISTICAL sampling; PSYCHOLOGY of Spouses; SOCIOECONOMIC factors; EVALUATION research; RANDOMIZED controlled trials; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Studies in Family Planning, 2018, Vol 49, Issue 1, p41
- ISSN
0039-3665
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1111/sifp.12047