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<strong>16</strong>.<strong>16</strong> REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CARE BY WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT<br />

Empowered women are more likely to be able to seek and use health services to meet their reproductive<br />

health goals, including safe motherhood. The relationship between the women’s empowerment indices and<br />

the use of maternal health care is not linear however. In general, women who measure the most<br />

empowered on each index are more likely to have received maternal health care. For example, 45% of<br />

women who participated in all household decisions receive a postnatal check in the first 2 days after birth<br />

compared with 40% among women who participate in no decisions (Table <strong>16</strong>.<strong>16</strong>).<br />

<strong>16</strong>.17 EARLY CHILDHOOD MORTALITY RATES BY WOMEN’S STATUS<br />

The ability of women to access information, make decisions, and act effectively in their own interests or in<br />

the interests of those who depend on them is essential to their empowerment. If women, the primary<br />

caretakers of children, are empowered, the health and survival of their children will also be enhanced.<br />

The results do not follow the expected pattern. In some instances, it appears that women’s agreement with<br />

wife beating indicates a higher risk for child mortality. For example, child mortality and under-five<br />

mortality is highest for children of women who justify wife beating in all five of the specified situations<br />

(Table <strong>16</strong>.17).<br />

LIST OF TABLES<br />

For detailed information on women’s empowerment and demographic and health outcomes, see the<br />

following tables:<br />

• Table <strong>16</strong>.1 Employment and cash earnings of currently married women and men<br />

• Table <strong>16</strong>.2.1 Control over women’s cash earnings and relative magnitude of women’s cash<br />

earnings<br />

• Table <strong>16</strong>.2.2 Control over men’s cash earnings<br />

• Table <strong>16</strong>.3 Women’s control over their own earnings and over those of their husbands<br />

• Table <strong>16</strong>.4.1 Ownership of assets: Women<br />

• Table <strong>16</strong>.4.2 Ownership of assets: Men<br />

• Table <strong>16</strong>.5.1 Ownership of title or deed for house: Women<br />

• Table <strong>16</strong>.5.2 Ownership of title or deed for house: Men<br />

• Table <strong>16</strong>.6.1 Ownership of title or deed for land: Women<br />

• Table <strong>16</strong>.6.2 Ownership of title or deed for land: Men<br />

• Table <strong>16</strong>.7.1 Ownership and use of bank accounts and mobile phones: Women<br />

• Table <strong>16</strong>.7.2 Ownership and use of bank accounts and mobile phones: Men<br />

• Table <strong>16</strong>.8 Participation in decision making<br />

• Table <strong>16</strong>.9.1 Women’s participation in decision making by background characteristics<br />

• Table <strong>16</strong>.9.2 Men’s participation in decision making by background characteristics<br />

• Table <strong>16</strong>.10.1 Attitude toward wife beating: Women<br />

• Table <strong>16</strong>.10.2 Attitude toward wife beating: Men<br />

• Table <strong>16</strong>.11 Attitudes toward negotiating safer sexual relations with husband<br />

• Table <strong>16</strong>.12 Ability to negotiate sexual relations with husband<br />

• Table <strong>16</strong>.13 Indicators of women’s empowerment<br />

• Table <strong>16</strong>.14 Current use of contraception by women’s empowerment<br />

• Table <strong>16</strong>.15 Ideal number of children and unmet need for family planning by women’s<br />

empowerment<br />

• Table <strong>16</strong>.<strong>16</strong> Reproductive health care by women’s empowerment<br />

• Table <strong>16</strong>.17 Early childhood mortality rates by indicators of women’s empowerment<br />

Women’s Empowerment • 261

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