Adak Dipak Kumar, Bharati Premananda
Anthropological Survey of India, Kolkata, India.
Coll Antropol. 2011 Jun;35(2):319-24.
Position of women has been assessed in terms of demographic perspectives among an offshoot population of a depressed class, namely the Ladiya of Pathariya Jat village of Sagar district, Madhya Pradesh, India. Fertility as well as infant mortality both is found to be considerably high among the womenfolk. It reveals that the Ladiya mothers opt for frequent child bearing in order to make up the loss due to infant mortality, despite the consequent risk of their health as well as survival. The present study, however, inferred that to improve overall status of the women, effort should be made to improve their level of educational attainment and increase their active participation in economic activities for better employment. This will help the women to have more autonomy in decision making to overcome the high rate of infant mortality and birth rate--as well as natural growth rate of the study population.
在印度中央邦萨加尔区帕塔里亚贾特村的一个下层阶级分支群体——拉迪亚人中，从人口统计学角度对女性地位进行了评估。结果发现，该群体中女性的生育率和婴儿死亡率都相当高。这表明，尽管频繁生育会对拉迪亚族母亲自身的健康和生存造成风险，但她们仍选择频繁生育以弥补因婴儿死亡造成的损失。然而，本研究推断，为了提高女性的整体地位，应努力提高她们的教育水平，并增加她们积极参与经济活动以获得更好的就业机会。这将有助于女性在决策中拥有更多自主权，从而降低研究人群的高婴儿死亡率、出生率以及自然增长率。
