Firl, Katrin (2021) Gender Equality and Male-Body Based Contraceptive Use: Evidence from the German Family Panel. Master thesis.
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Abstract
Background Most available modern contraceptives are female-body based and women predominantly take the responsibility for birth control in heterosexual relationships in developed countries. As preventing unwanted pregnancies is a ‘relationship task’ both partners want to achieve in heterosexual relationships, feminized contraceptive responsibility can be conceptualised as ‘fertility work’. Thereby, it can be connected to the ‘gendered division of labour’. Objective By examining the gendered dimension of contraceptive behaviour, I address the research gap of considering micro-level gender equality in form of power dynamics and gender ideology when researching couples’ contraceptive choices. It is hypothesized that greater gender equality is related to a higher likelihood of choosing modern methods over no or traditional methods, and modern male methods over modern female methods. Thereby, it is assumed that modern male methods are connected to lower expenditures like side-effects than female methods and that using male methods can be conceptualised as ‘sharing’ contraceptive responsibility. Method Micro-level gender equality is operationalised within power theories and gender ideology theory and measured by predictors of interactional, relative and absolute power and gender ideology. I test each predictor in their relationship to contraceptive behaviour in linear probability models with wave 1 data of the German Family Panel ‘pairfam’. Findings Gender equality conceptualised within power theories and gender ideology theory is significantly associated with a higher probability of choosing modern methods over no or traditional methods, and choosing modern male methods over modern female methods. Thereby, broader relationship dynamics like the number of children, relationship commitment and cohort affiliation need to be taken into account.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Degree programme: | Population Studies |
| Supervisor: | Rutigliano, R. and Bister, L. |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Jul 2021 06:39 |
| Last Modified: | 28 Jul 2021 06:39 |
| URI: | https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3586 |
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