), we designed a multi-dimensional quantitative scale to measure individuals’ attitudes towards varied means of birth … control. We applied it in two representative surveys in rural and urban Burkina Faso. Relating individuals’ attitudes … towards birth control to their socio-demographic characteristics and to their attitudes towards other life dimensions, and …

This study attempts to examine the extent to which women have control over their sexuality within marriage and its … control over their sexuality especially during certain occasions such as during menstruation, breastfeeding, pregnancy and …

individuals are embedded. The Contextual Database of the Generations and Gender Programme (GGP) supports research on these micro … recent advances in the implementation of this database. Although conceptually linked to the Generations and Gender Survey …

-2005, this paper investigates gender differences in mortality differentials by level of educational achievement and by marital … contribute to the gender difference in the educational mortality gradient, but it is probably not the main reason for this … narrows over time. Our analysis also shows that gender differences in the mortality differential by marital status almost …

This paper aims to develop a conceptual framework for analysing the degree to which public policies support gender …

Arguments about the spread of gender egalitarian values through a population highlight several sources of change. First … outside the family, and direct interests in gender equality. Second, value-shift arguments contend that gender norms change …, diffusion arguments suggest that structural changes lead to adoption of new ideas and values supportive of gender equality by …