When women eat last: Discrimination at home and women's mental health

Autor: Amit Thorat, Nazar Khalid, Diane Coffey, Payal Hathi
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
Předmět:
Male
Gerontology
Physiology
Social Sciences
Surveys
Geographical Locations
Eating
Families
Cognition
0302 clinical medicine
Sociology
Surveys and Questionnaires
Medicine and Health Sciences
Psychology
Public and Occupational Health
030212 general & internal medicine
050207 economics
Young adult
Children
media_common
Multidisciplinary
05 social sciences
Social Discrimination
Middle Aged
Socioeconomic Aspects of Health
Human development (humanity)
Mental Health
Research Design
Medicine
Female
Autonomy
Research Article
Adult
Asia
Adolescent
Gender Discrimination
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Science
Sexism
Decision Making
MEDLINE
India
Research and Analysis Methods
Social class
Sexual and Gender Issues
Young Adult
03 medical and health sciences
Mental Health and Psychiatry
0502 economics and business
Humans
Socioeconomic status
Aged
Survey Research
Cognitive Psychology
Biology and Life Sciences
Quarter (United States coin)
Mental health
Health Care
Social Class
Age Groups
People and Places
Women's Health
Cognitive Science
Population Groupings
Physiological Processes
Neuroscience
Zdroj: PLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 3, p e0247065 (2021)
PLoS ONE
ISSN: 1932-6203
Popis: The 2011 India Human Development Survey found that in about a quarter of Indian households, women are expected to have their meals after men have finished eating. This study investigates whether this form of gender discrimination is associated with worse mental health outcomes for women. Our primary data source is a new, state-representative mobile phone survey of women ages 18–65 in Bihar, Jharkhand, and Maharashtra in 2018. We measure mental health using questions from the World Health Organization’s Self-Reporting Questionnaire. We find that, for women in these states, eating last is correlated with worse mental health, even after accounting for differences in socioeconomic status. We discuss two possible mechanisms for this relationship: eating last may be associated with worse mental health because it is associated with worse physical health, or eating last may be associated with poor mental health because it is associated with less autonomy, or both.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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