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Power and the gendered division of contraceptive use in Western European couples
Affiliation:1. Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Yamadaoka 1-5, Suita, Osaka, Japan;2. Department of Bioinformatic Engineering, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University, Yamadaoka 1-5, Suita, Osaka, Japan;3. Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Yamadaoka 1-5, Suita, Osaka, Japan;1. Demography Unit, Sociology Dept., Stockholm University and SCOHOST, Södertörns University, Sweden;2. Institute of Statistics and Demography, Warsaw School of Economics, Poland
Abstract:Recent research has approached contraceptive use, or “fertility work”, as another household task that is primarily managed by women. Building on the theoretical frameworks of relative resource theory and gender perspectives, this study investigates the association between partners' power (measured as their relative education, division of housework and decision-making) and the choice of male versus female, or no contraception. Data from the Generations and Gender Survey for four Western European countries (Austria, Belgium, France and Germany; 2005–2010) are used to examine the hypotheses with multinomial logistic diagonal reference models. The results show that man's and woman's educational level are equally important predictors for a couple's contraceptive method choice. Furthermore, the findings suggest that households in which the man performs more housework or the woman has more say in decisions are more likely to rely on male methods or female sterilization, rather than on the more commonly used female reversible methods.
Keywords:Contraception  Decision-making  Education  Gender  Housework/division of labour  Power
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