Rahman M, Akbar J, Phillips J F, Becker S
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research (ICDDR,B), Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Stud Fam Plann. 1992 Jul-Aug;23(4):229-42.
Research in several Asian societies has suggested that sons are generally preferred over daughters. The implications of gender preferences for actual fertility behavior have not been adequately investigated, however. This analysis examines the effect of the sex composition of surviving children on the acceptance and discontinuation of contraception in a sample of 3,145 women in Matlab, Bangladesh, who were observed for 60 months. Hazards regression analyses are employed in the analysis. Strong and highly significant effects of gender preference on contraceptive use are observed. The preference is not monotonically son-biased but is moderated toward a balanced composition, because parents desire to have several sons and at least one daughter. These findings suggest that gender preferences, particularly a preference for sons, represent a significant barrier to fertility regulation in rural Bangladesh.
几个亚洲社会的研究表明，一般来说，男孩比女孩更受青睐。然而，性别偏好对实际生育行为的影响尚未得到充分调查。本分析考察了在孟加拉国马特莱的3145名妇女样本中，存活子女的性别构成对避孕措施接受和停用的影响，这些妇女被观察了60个月。分析中采用了风险回归分析。观察到性别偏好在避孕措施使用方面有强烈且高度显著的影响。这种偏好并非单调地偏向男孩，而是朝着平衡构成有所缓和，因为父母希望有几个儿子和至少一个女儿。这些发现表明，性别偏好，尤其是对男孩的偏好，是孟加拉国农村地区生育调控的一个重大障碍。
