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Women's Interest (women + interest)
Selected AbstractsSwedish Women's Interest in Home Birth and In-Hospital Birth Center CareBIRTH, Issue 1 2003Ingegerd Hildingsson RN ABSTRACT:Background: In Sweden, few alternatives to a hospital birth are available, and little is known about consumer interest in alternative birth care. The aim of this study was to determine women's interest in home birth and in-hospital birth center care in Sweden, and to describe the characteristics of these women. Methods: All Swedish-speaking women booked for antenatal care during 3 weeks during 1 year were invited to participate in the study. Three questionnaires, completed after the first booking visit in early pregnancy, at 2 months, and 1 year after the birth, asked about the women's interest in two alternative birth options and a wide range of possible explanatory variables. Results: Consent to participate in the study was given by 3283 women (71% of all women eligible). The rates of response to the three questionnaires were 94, 88, and 88 percent, respectively. One percent of participants consistently expressed an interest in home birth on all three occasions, and 8 percent expressed an interest in birth center care. A regression analysis showed five factors that were associated with an interest in home birth: a wish to have the baby's siblings (OR 20.2; 95% CI 6.2,66.5) and a female friend (OR 15.2; 95% CI 6.2,37.4) present at the birth, not wanting pharmacological pain relief during labor and birth (OR 4.7; 95% CI 1.4,15.3), low level of education (OR 4.5; 95% CI 1.8,11.4), and dissatisfaction with medical aspects of intrapartum care (OR 3.6; 95% CI 1.4,9.2). An interest in birth center care was associated with experience of being in control during labor and birth (OR 8.3; 95% CI 3.2,21.6), not wanting pharmacological pain relief (OR 2.3; 95% CI 1.3,4.1), and a preference to have a known midwife at the birth (OR 2.2; 95% CI 1.6,2.9). Conclusion: If Swedish women were offered free choice of place of birth, the home birth rate would be 10 times higher, and the 20 largest hospitals would need to have a birth center. Women interested in alternative models of care view childbirth as a social and natural event, and their needs should be considered. (BIRTH 30:1 March 2003) [source] Gender, Ideology and Issue Preference: Is There such a Thing as a Political Women's Interest in Britain?1BRITISH JOURNAL OF POLITICS & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, Issue 1 2004Rosie Campbell This article is not intended as a comprehensive study of gender and attitude in Britain. Neither is it a thorough analysis of gender and vote in Britain. It is, however, designed to ascertain whether there is any evidence to suggest that men and women might think about politics in different ways. Mainstream measures of ideology are examined and it is asked whether they can be applied equally to both sexes and also whether issues that might be defined as being especially important to women, such as health and education, provide more powerful explanations of women's voting choices than men's. [source] Institutionalising Women's Interests and Accountability to Women in Development (Introduction)IDS BULLETIN, Issue 4 2006Anne Marie Goetz First page of article [source] Swedish Women's Interest in Home Birth and In-Hospital Birth Center CareBIRTH, Issue 1 2003Ingegerd Hildingsson RN ABSTRACT:Background: In Sweden, few alternatives to a hospital birth are available, and little is known about consumer interest in alternative birth care. The aim of this study was to determine women's interest in home birth and in-hospital birth center care in Sweden, and to describe the characteristics of these women. Methods: All Swedish-speaking women booked for antenatal care during 3 weeks during 1 year were invited to participate in the study. Three questionnaires, completed after the first booking visit in early pregnancy, at 2 months, and 1 year after the birth, asked about the women's interest in two alternative birth options and a wide range of possible explanatory variables. Results: Consent to participate in the study was given by 3283 women (71% of all women eligible). The rates of response to the three questionnaires were 94, 88, and 88 percent, respectively. One percent of participants consistently expressed an interest in home birth on all three occasions, and 8 percent expressed an interest in birth center care. A regression analysis showed five factors that were associated with an interest in home birth: a wish to have the baby's siblings (OR 20.2; 95% CI 6.2,66.5) and a female friend (OR 15.2; 95% CI 6.2,37.4) present at the birth, not wanting pharmacological pain relief during labor and birth (OR 4.7; 95% CI 1.4,15.3), low level of education (OR 4.5; 95% CI 1.8,11.4), and dissatisfaction with medical aspects of intrapartum care (OR 3.6; 95% CI 1.4,9.2). An interest in birth center care was associated with experience of being in control during labor and birth (OR 8.3; 95% CI 3.2,21.6), not wanting pharmacological pain relief (OR 2.3; 95% CI 1.3,4.1), and a preference to have a known midwife at the birth (OR 2.2; 95% CI 1.6,2.9). Conclusion: If Swedish women were offered free choice of place of birth, the home birth rate would be 10 times higher, and the 20 largest hospitals would need to have a birth center. Women interested in alternative models of care view childbirth as a social and natural event, and their needs should be considered. (BIRTH 30:1 March 2003) [source] Gender, Caste and Matchmaking in Kerala: A Rationale for DowryDEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE, Issue 2 2008Praveena Kodoth ABSTRACT The matrilineal castes of northern Kerala consider dowry demeaning and resort to it only in ,exceptional' circumstances. In local discourse, dowry is transacted when women are considered ,old' by the standards of the marriage market, where over-age is a condition reached usually on account of what is considered a deficit of a normative conception of femininity. Dowry is practised openly only by poor and socially vulnerable households, as the relatively affluent could mask dowry with hidden compensations. This article explores the ways in which gender mediates matchmaking and generates a residual category of women for whom dowry is openly negotiated. Open negotiation on the margins of the marriage market expose the terms of exchange in ,respectable' society, where matchmaking strategies reveal the emphasis placed on conjugality and on caste in the social construction of women's interests and identity. Up to the mid-twentieth century, matrilineal women derived their identity from their natal families. The political economy of marriage in Kerala brought a new emphasis to bear on conjugality and on caste, which generated new restrictions on women and produced a rationale for dowry. [source] Asian and Pacific Islander women scientists and engineers: A narrative exploration of model minority, gender, and racial stereotypesJOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN SCIENCE TEACHING, Issue 4 2002Pauline W.U. Chinn This qualitative study uses narrative methodology to understand what becoming a scientist or engineer entails for women stereotyped as "model minorities." Interviews with four Chinese and Japanese women focused on the social contexts in which science is encountered in classrooms, families, and community. Interpretation was guided by theories that individuals construct personal narratives mediated by cultural symbolic systems to make meaning of experiences. Narratives revealed that Confucian cultural scripts shaped gender expectations even in families several generations in America. Regardless of parents' level of education, country of birth, and number of children, educational expectations, and resources were lower for daughters. Parents expected daughters to be compliant, feminine, and educated enough to be marriageable. Findings suggest K,12 gender equity science practices encouraged development of the women's interests and abilities but did not affect parental beliefs. The author's 1999 study of Hawaiians/Pacific Islander and Filipina female engineers is included in implications for teacher education programs sensitive to gender, culture, ethnicity, and language. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals Inc. J Res Sci Teach 39: 302,323, 2002 [source] | ||||||||||