Unintended pregnancy and gender inequality worldwide: an ecological analysis.

ABSTRACT: Unintended pregnancy compromises many women's and girls' ability to pursue the lives that they want. The conditional unintended pregnancy rate (CUPR) is a measure of unintended pregnancy among women who wish to avoid getting pregnant. Using the CUPR, we explore the relationship between gender inequality and unintended pregnancy across 132 countries. We used gender inequality indicators from the UNDP Human Development Report and estimates of the incidence of unintended pregnancy published by the Guttmacher Institute and WHO. We regressed the CUPR on several measures of gender inequality using least squares with a percentile bootstrap to account for sampling error and the additional uncertainty in the model-based unintended pregnancy estimates. We find that unintended pregnancy is positively

SUBMITTER: Sedgh G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11962802 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature