First birth and the trajectory of women's empowerment in Egypt.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Women's empowerment is often used to explain changes in reproductive behavior, but no consideration is given to how reproductive events can shape women's empowerment over time. Fertility may cause changes in women's empowerment, or they may be mutually influencing. Research on women's empowerment and fertility relies on cross-sectional data from South Asia, which limits the understanding of the direction of association between women's empowerment and fertility in other global contexts. This study uses two waves of a panel survey from a prominent Middle Eastern country, Egypt, to examine the trajectory of women's empowerment and the relationship between first and subsequent births and empowerment over time.

Methods

Using longitudinal data from the 2006 and 2012 Egy

SUBMITTER: Samari G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5688501 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature