Autor: |
Safdar Abbas, Noman Isaac, Munir Zia, Rubeena Zakar, Florian Fischer |
Jazyk: |
angličtina |
Rok vydání: |
2021 |
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Zdroj: |
BMC Public Health, Vol 21, Iss 1, Pp 1-14 (2021) |
Druh dokumentu: |
article |
ISSN: |
1471-2458 |
DOI: |
10.1186/s12889-021-11376-6 |
Popis: |
Abstract Background Women’s empowerment has always remained a contested issue in the complex socio-demographic and cultural milieu of Pakistani society. Women are ranked lower than men on all vital human development indicators. Therefore, studying various determinants of women’s empowerment is urgently needed in the Pakistani context. Methods The study empirically operationalized the concept of women’s empowerment and investigated its determinants through representative secondary data taken from the Pakistan Demographic and Health Surveys among women at reproductive age (15–49 years) in 2012–13 (n = 13,558) and 2017–18 (n = 15,068). The study used simple binary logistic and multivariable regression analyses. Results The results of the binary logistic regression highlighted that almost all of the selected demographic, economic, social, and access to information variables were significantly associated with women’s empowerment (p |
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