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A CASE STUDY ON THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIO - ECONOMIC STATUS OF WOMEN ON INFANT HEALTHCARE IN KERALA STATE
Kerala offers an interesting paradox of social advancement and economic stagnation. Women in the state inspite of enjoying better status and position compared to other parts of the country have low levels of participation in economic activity. The empowerment of women is anchored to their economic s...
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International Journal of Physical and Social Sciences
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| Summary: | Kerala offers an interesting paradox of social advancement and economic stagnation.
Women in the state inspite of enjoying better status and position compared to other parts of the
country have low levels of participation in economic activity. The empowerment of women is
anchored to their economic status in the society .This study is an attempt to understand the
association between women’s work and children’s well being in a specific social setting.
Increase in work participation of women outside the house tends to reduce the desired number of
children as the opportunity cost of child bearing and rearing is high. Also, women who work
outside home get better exposed to available options of contraception. There are two mutually
compensating effects of women’s participating on child survival and care. The first one is the
positive effect accruing from mother’s income. The mother’s work participation enhances the
family income, which in turn has a positive impact on child nutrition and health. The second is
the negative impacts on children well being. The labour force participation of the mother can
have an adverse impact on child health as the child may not get full attention from his mother
and may even have to forego the benefits of breastfeeding. Objectives of the study are to
understand women’s work and its specifications, to examine the differentials in child health
status in relation to the work characteristics of women, to analyze the causal mechanisms in the association between women’s work and child healthcare etc. Conceptual and analytical
approaches used for the present study. This study employs multiple data sets that include both
quantitative and qualitative information. Arc.GIS 9.3 used for mapping and SPSS used for
statistical analysis |
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| Physical Description: | Volume 5, Issue 1 |