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Women’s Autonomy and Control to Exercise Reproductive Rights: A Sociological Study from Rural Bangladesh

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  • Amit Kumar Biswas
  • Taufiq-E-Ahmed Shovo
  • Moutithi Aich
  • Sykat Mondal

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Women’s autonomy is a potentially noteworthy but less studied indicator of women’s control to exercise reproductive rights in a patriarchal country such as Bangladesh. The study is a sociological investigation that examined whether women’s autonomy matters or not in determining their control to exercise reproductive rights in rural Bangladesh. A survey was conducted on 200 randomly selected married women from Hogladanga village in the Bagerhat district of Bangladesh. We administered an interview questionnaire containing 27 Likert-type questions under three mutually interlinked domains for autonomy measures and 12 Likert-type questions under two mutually interlinked domains for reproductive rights status measures. The findings revealed that women’s autonomy status is strongly associated with their control to exercise reproductive rights status (β = .862, p

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  • Amit Kumar Biswas & Taufiq-E-Ahmed Shovo & Moutithi Aich & Sykat Mondal, 2017. "Women’s Autonomy and Control to Exercise Reproductive Rights: A Sociological Study from Rural Bangladesh," SAGE Open, , vol. 7(2), pages 21582440177, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:sagope:v:7:y:2017:i:2:p:2158244017709862
    DOI: 10.1177/2158244017709862
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