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The role of gendered attitudes towards women, and experience with HIV/AIDS

The role of gendered attitudes towards women, and experience with HIV/AIDS. High fertility aspirations among young Ugandan men Rachel Snow, Rebecca Friedland -Little - University of Michigan. Ideal family size (IFS) among males & females, age 15-24 in East Africa (DHS since 2006) .

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The role of gendered attitudes towards women, and experience with HIV/AIDS

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  1. The role of gendered attitudes towards women, and experience with HIV/AIDS High fertility aspirations among young Ugandan menRachel Snow, Rebecca Friedland-Little - University of Michigan

  2. Ideal family size (IFS) among males & females, age 15-24 in East Africa (DHS since 2006)

  3. Social determinants of ideal family size (IFS) • Relationship between ideal family size and several social factors well-established – • Urban life • Wealth • Female education • Social determinants of IFS for young Ugandan males? • Role of gendered attitudes? • Has the HIV/AIDS epidemic had any dampening effect of fertility ideals?

  4. Social characteristics* - Ugandan males age 15-24, DHS 2006 *Source: 2006 DHS Uganda Data, n=869

  5. Ideal Family Size (4.6 overall)

  6. What the DHS offers for measures of gendered attitudes….. Since 1998, DHS added 3 domains • Decision-making (self, spouse, joint, others) • Attitudes: women’s right to refuse sex • Attitudes: men’s right to beat women

  7. Joint HH decision-making & ideal family size (Ugandan Males, 15-24, 2006)

  8. Husband’s decision-making & ideal family size (Ugandan Males, 15-24, 2006)

  9. Attitudes: husbands sexual rights & ideal family size (Ugandan Males, 15-24, 2006)

  10. Attitudes: men’s right to beat their wives (Ugandan Males, 15-24, 2006) *Source: 2006 DHS Uganda Data, n=979

  11. Attitude to wife beating and Ideal Family Size (simple linear regression)

  12. Attitude to wife beating & Ideal Family Size & role of an AIDS death, net of other factors (multiple linear regression)

  13. Looking closer at families • Basu (1999) – noted men in India with educated sisters are more likely to marry educated women – more predictive than men’s education alone • How does family educational attainment, net of others factors, impact young men’s ideal family size?

  14. What role does the education of women >15 in the HH have on young men’s Ideal Family Size?

  15. Conclusions to date • Gender variables within the DHS that provide insight on masculinity are limited, but Attitudes to Wife beating have consistent significant effects in models on young men’s ideal family size; • The analysis does underscore the intersections between young men’s attitudes towards women’s subordination, and their desire for larger families – net of other social factors. • Differences in values between young men with educated female family members, versus those without, warrants further investigation for it’s affects on young men’s ideals. • The experience of AIDS death in Ugandadoes appear to have a dampening affect on ideal family sizeamong young men.

  16. Conclusions • Further formative work on masculinity and femininity ideals, and identification of variables for large-scale, comparative surveys, would enable us to better study gender change across Africa. • The African Social Research Initiative (ASRI) at UM, with colleagues in Uganda, Ghana and South Africa, is working towards this – with a meeting in Accra next July – and keen to engage other collaborators. Thank you

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