Planning for work: Exploring the relationship between contraceptive use and women’s sector-specific employment in India

Lotus McDougal, Abhishek Singh, Kaushalendra Kumar, Nabamallika Dehingia, Aluisio J D Barros, Fernanda Ewerling, Yamini Atmavilas and Anita Raj

PLOS ONE, 2021, vol. 16, issue 3, 1-16

Abstract: While the health-related benefits of contraceptive use for women are well documented, potential social benefits, including enabling women’s employment, have not been well researched. We examine the relationship between contraceptive use and women’s employment in India, a country where both factors have remained relatively static over the past ten years. We use data from India’s 2015–16 National Family Health Survey to test the association between current contraceptive use (none, sterilization, IUD, condom, pill, rhythm method or withdrawal) and current employment status (none, professional, clerical or sales, agricultural, services or production) with multivariable, multinomial regression; variable selection was guided by a directed acyclic graph. More than three-quarters of women in this sample were currently using contraception; sterilization was most common. Women who were sterilized or chose traditional contraception, relative to those not using contraception, were more likely to be employed in the agricultural and production sectors, versus not being employed (sterilization adjusted relative risk ratio [aRRR] = 1.5, p

Date: 2021
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