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Labor market penalty associated with motherhood (in short, motherhood penalty) is an important issue related to gender … equality in the society. Our paper is an attempt to empirically examine the extent of motherhood penalty in the context of … relationship between motherhood and labor market outcomes for women. Besides using conventional measures of motherhood such as …
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Since the 1990s, India has seen robust economic growth, rising wages, steady fertility decline, increased urbanization … policy research on women's employment in India. The discussion is situated in the normative construction of motherhood and … to examine the effects of having a young child on mothers' employment in urban India over 1983-2011. The analysis also …
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Maternal and child health is severely impacted by adverse birth outcomes leading to a public health concern. A whole host of socioeconomic factors are instrumental in determining birth outcomes. Importantly, there is an intricate relationship between women's autonomy, the perpetration of...
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In June 2018, we conducted a small survey of the Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana (PMMVY) in two blocks of Jharkhand: Manika in Latehar District and Khunti in Khunti District. Along with examining the status of PMMVY, we studied the problems faced by women at the time of pregnancy and...
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Prenatal care is an essential segment of maternal health-care. In this paper an attempt has been made to examine the socioeconomic determinants of maternal iron supplementation and sufficient maternal iron supplementation as components of prenatal care. Micro-data having 25999 and 19764...
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