Department of Sociology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA.
J Biosoc Sci. 2021 Jul;53(4):508-521. doi: 10.1017/S0021932020000334. Epub 2020 Aug 10.
Gender-biased contexts may impact women's lives across a variety of domains. This study examined whether changes in district prevalence of a salient gendered practice - dowry - are associated with changes in poor health for women in India. Two waves of national multilevel panel data were used to assess the relationship between changes in district-level dowry prevalence and changes in self-rated health for 23,785 ever-married women aged 15-50 years. Increased dowry prevalence was found to be associated with increased poor self-rated health for women. This relationship remained when controlling for potentially confounding factors including household socioeconomic status, caste, infrastructure, mobility and state fixed-effects.
性别偏见的语境可能会影响女性在各个领域的生活。本研究考察了在印度，一个突出的性别习俗——嫁妆——的地区流行率的变化是否与女性健康状况不佳的变化有关。本研究使用了两波全国多层次面板数据，评估了在 15-50 岁的已婚女性中，地区一级嫁妆流行率的变化与自我报告健康状况变化之间的关系。研究发现，嫁妆流行率的增加与女性自我报告健康状况较差有关。当控制包括家庭社会经济地位、种姓、基础设施、流动性和州固定效应等潜在混杂因素时，这种关系仍然存在。
