BACKGROUND This study evaluated the reproductive health rights, women empowerment and gender equity in a rural area of Bangladesh. METHODS Three hundred married women of reproductive age (15-49 years) in Meherpur District, Bangladesh were interviewed using a structured questionnaire and purposing sampling techniques. The logistic regression analysis was used to determine the dominating factor...

The Dynamics of Marriage and Divorce We formulate and estimate a dynamic model of marriage, divorce, and remarriage using 27 years of panel data for the entire Danish cohort born in 1960. The marital surplus is identified from the probability of divorce, and the surplus shares of husbands and wives from their willingness to enter marriage. Education and marriage order are complements in generat...

There is extensive evidence that married people are, on average, healthier than their unmarried counterparts. It is unclear how much this positive correlation can be explained by the selection of healthier people into marriage. In this paper, I estimate the effect of marriage relative to cohabitation on health and disability. I control for selection into marriage by instrumenting marital status...

I use the Survey of Income and Program Participation (N = 16,756) to measure trends in marital dissolution rates for U.S. women by education level. In marriage cohorts from the mid-1970s to the 1990s, marital dissolution rates fell among women with a 4year college degree or more, but remained high among women with less than a 4-year college degree. This diverging trend began in the mid-1970s an...

Japan is one of few developed countries in which marriage and higher earning potential among women are negatively associated. As the proportion of births occurring outside of marriage remains low in Japan, fertility is still significantly influenced by marriage trends, which are in turn influenced by societal expectations regarding the marriageability of educated women. Previous studies have su...

Japan‘s declining birth rate reached a record low in 2005 with a fertility rate of 1.26 births. This study explores the principal factors behind Japanese women‘s waning desire to have children: the obligation of marriage; the impact of higher education on women; and a grueling job market making conciliation of career and family extremely difficult. Based on interviews with Japanese women (with ...

The purpose of this paper is to study the determinant factors of education and age equality in the marriage. The Sample was 419 subjects of Yazdian couples by the method of cluster sampling. Most respondents were Females and they believed that the equality of marriage and age would cause better situation for marriage.  In other words, the findings showed that there was a positive and meaningful...

The turn of the century saw a shift from input-based to outcome-based education in Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT) training. An attempt was also made establish core competencies that practitioners MFT should attain provide effective client care. These developments had significant impact on version 11.0 12.0 Commission Accreditation for Education (COAMFTE) Standards. Since then, educators have...