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Migration, Gender, and Families: The Effects of Spousal Migration on Women's Empowerment.
- Source :
- Demography (Duke University Press); Jun2024, Vol. 61 Issue 3, p769-795, 27p
- Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- Labor migration has a profound effect on families, but evidence documenting the impact of migration on women left behind is still lacking. Utilizing the Matlab Health and Socioeconomic Surveys, we examined the roles of migration and families in four domains of empowerment for women in Bangladesh. We found that women with international migrant spouses saw significant improvements in economic empowerment, mobility, and decision-making relative to women with coresident spouses (p <.0001). However, women who lived in multigenerational households with their parents or in-laws experienced significant reductions in empowerment across these three domains. Both having a migrant spouse and living in a multigenerational household had negative effects on beliefs about gender equivalence and reduced joint decision-making for women. Results, which were robust to migration selection controls (including propensity approaches), indicate that the benefits of migration for women left behind might be diluted by family structures that perpetuate unequal gender dynamics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- EMIGRATION & immigration
STATISTICAL models
SELF-efficacy
RESEARCH funding
T-test (Statistics)
SPOUSES
SEX distribution
SCIENTIFIC observation
KRUSKAL-Wallis Test
RESIDENTIAL patterns
QUESTIONNAIRES
PSYCHOLOGY of women
DECISION making
SOCIAL change
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
CHI-squared test
MULTIVARIATE analysis
ECONOMIC status
GENDER inequality
FAMILY structure
RURAL conditions
MATHEMATICAL models
ANALYSIS of variance
THEORY
FACTOR analysis
DATA analysis software
REGRESSION analysis
EDUCATIONAL attainment
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00703370
- Volume :
- 61
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Demography (Duke University Press)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 178968123
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-11370243