Session 40:
Gender and Reproductive Health
Chair: Sarah Hawkes, University College London
Discussant: Rachel Snow, University of Michigan
Women's Empowerment and Choice of Family Planning Methods Mai Do, Tulane University ; Nami Kurimoto, Tulane University
Women’s Autonomy and Utilization of Maternal and Child Health Care Services in India Kaushlendra Kumar, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) ; Mukesh Tiwari, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)
Introducing a New Method into the Family Planning Method Mix – Effect on Women’s Empowerment and Contraceptive Prevalence Rebecka I. Lundgren, Georgetown University ; Federico R. León, Georgetown University ; Irit Sinai, Georgetown University
Understanding Women’s Status, Empowerment and Autonomy in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Need to Contextualize and Validate DHS Gender Analyses with Supplemental Qualitative Data Enid Schatz, University of Missouri at Columbia ; Jill Williams, University of Colorado at Boulder
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