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Women Empowerment and Child Education in Egypt, 2008

Thesis

Last updated: 06 Feb 2023

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Tags

Women Empowerment
Egypt

Advisors

Layla Mahmoud Kamel

Authors

Labib, Heba William

Accessioned

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2022-05-23 11:34:58

type

M.Sc. Thesis

Abstract

Women's empowerment is a matter of basic human rights. It is also a necessary condition for population stabilization and is considered a corner stone for the achievement of sustainable development. The present study is secondary analysis to some EDHS 2008 data related to women empowerment. EDHS data covered 16,527 ever-married women aged 15-49 was interviewed. The study included partner and a sample of 10,872 children less than 60 month were examined for nutritional status and sample of 29,608 children aged 6 -18 were examined for child education. The objectives of the study are: To determine the patterns of women's empowerment indicators in Egypt; to profile child education in Egypt and to investigate the relationship between women's empowerment, child education; child nutrition and contraceptive use. The study used two methods of data management 1- Statistical analysis including the descriptive analysis, bi-variant and multi-variant analysis would be applied. 2- The indicators scoring system to construct, Egypt geographically, the socioeconomic level index, exposure to the media, child nutrition, women Contraceptive use and women empowerment indicators. Results are displayed in three parts: Descriptive information, factors affecting women empowerment and effect of women empowerment on child education, nutrition and contraceptive use. Descriptive information is displayed according to region. It covered some socio-demographic data including age of women and their husbands, education and work for both, wealth index and social score. It also included Data related to child education and under five stunting; in addition to contraceptive use. Women empowerment indicators are displayed for the three decision making dimensions: Economic decision making, household decision making and freedom of physical movement decision making. All indicators were better in urban areas and in Lower Egypt. Multinomial logistic regression analysis revealed the eight most important factors related to women empowerment in order; these are: Geographic location where Lower Egypt women are more empowered, women work, exposure to media, women education, husband education, couples desire for the same number of children ,wealth index and women current age. Women empowerment was found to affect child never attended school, child nutrition and contraceptive use; but did not have a statistically significant effect on child who dropout from school. Logistic regression analysis revealed the seven most important factors related to never attended school in order; these are: Region, women age, sex of children, women education level, husband education level and age of children And present logistic regression analysis revealed the four important factors related to child nutrition (stunting) in order; these are: Region, exposure to the media, women empowerment index and number of living children. And also present logistic regression analysis revealed the ten important factors related to women contraceptive use in order; these are :Number of living children , region ,wealth index, women age, husband age, women currently work, women education level ,exposure to the media, age at first marriage. It is recommended to identify root causes for causes limiting women empowerment and to address them, to involve men and communities in efforts directed to women empowerment, and to do further research and disseminate results for policy makers.

Issued

1 Jan 2014

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.21473/iknito-space/41768

Number of Pages

107

Number of Tables

45

Number of References

98

Number of Illustrations

12

Organization

Cairo Demographic Center

Details

Type

Thesis

Locale

en_US

Created At

28 Jan 2023