TY - JOUR
T1 - Women's participation in household decision-making
T2 - qualitative findings from the Shonjibon Trial in rural Bangladesh
AU - Kirkwood, Elizabeth K.
AU - Khan, Jasmin
AU - Hasan, Mohammad Mehedi
AU - Iqbal, Afrin
AU - Tahsina, Tazeen
AU - Huda, Tanvir
AU - Hoddinott, John Frederick
AU - Lea Laba, Tracey
AU - Muthayya, Sumithra
AU - Goodwin, Nicholas
AU - Islam, Munirul
AU - Kingsley, Emwinyore Agho
AU - Arifeen, Shams E.
AU - Dibley, Michael J.
AU - Alam, Neeloy Ashraful
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 Kirkwood et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
PY - 2024/6/17
Y1 - 2024/6/17
N2 - A key element of women's empowerment is the ability to participate in household decisionmaking. This study presents the qualitative results from the Shonjibon Cash and Counselling Trial baseline process evaluation with the aim of exploring the status of women's decision- making at the trial's outset and to facilitate the exploration of any changes in women's empowerment over the course of the trial. Between January and March 2021, we conducted forty-one in-depth interviews with pregnant women in rural Bangladesh. The research team translated, transcribed, coded, and discussed the interviews. We used thematic analysis to examine women's experience and perceptions on household decision-making. The key findings that emerged; women jointly participated in financial decision-making with their husbands; men made the final decision regarding seeking healthcare, and women solely made choices regarding infant and young child feeding. Our findings revealed that women felt that they needed to discuss their plans to go outside the house with their husbands, many perceived a lack of importance in the community towards women's participation in decisionmaking. This study documents current contextual information on the status of women's involvement in household decision-making and intrahousehold power dynamics at the start of the Shonjibon Cash and Counselling Trial.
AB - A key element of women's empowerment is the ability to participate in household decisionmaking. This study presents the qualitative results from the Shonjibon Cash and Counselling Trial baseline process evaluation with the aim of exploring the status of women's decision- making at the trial's outset and to facilitate the exploration of any changes in women's empowerment over the course of the trial. Between January and March 2021, we conducted forty-one in-depth interviews with pregnant women in rural Bangladesh. The research team translated, transcribed, coded, and discussed the interviews. We used thematic analysis to examine women's experience and perceptions on household decision-making. The key findings that emerged; women jointly participated in financial decision-making with their husbands; men made the final decision regarding seeking healthcare, and women solely made choices regarding infant and young child feeding. Our findings revealed that women felt that they needed to discuss their plans to go outside the house with their husbands, many perceived a lack of importance in the community towards women's participation in decisionmaking. This study documents current contextual information on the status of women's involvement in household decision-making and intrahousehold power dynamics at the start of the Shonjibon Cash and Counselling Trial.
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U2 - 10.1371/journal.pgph.0002907
DO - 10.1371/journal.pgph.0002907
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85196663933
SN - 2767-3375
VL - 4
JO - PLOS Global Public Health
JF - PLOS Global Public Health
IS - 6
M1 - e0002907
ER -
