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Final Synthesis Paper

Women's Voices, Women's Lives: The Impact of Family Planning, A Synthesis of Findings from the Women's Studies Project.

Síntesis final

La voz y la vida de las mujeres: el impacto de la planificación familiar es una síntesis de los resultados de las investigaciones realizadas por el Proyecto de Estudios de la Mujer (PEM)

Country Reports

Research findings from the Women's Studies Project are presented briefly in fact sheets. Full reports and 10-page summaries of reports will be posted as they become available. In order to view full-length versions, which are provided in .pdf format, you will need a PDF viewer. If you do not have one, you may download a free copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader by clicking here.

Bangladesh:

Full (see 1)

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Factsheet

Family Planning and Women's Empowerment

Bolivia:

Full (pdf 292k)
Full (pdf 494)

Sum
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Factsheet

Follow-up to the 1994 DHS: Women's Economic Activities, Fertility and Contraceptive Use

Impact of Men's Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behavior Regarding Fertility Regulation in Women's Lives in Spanish (Una nueva perspectiva de la regulación de la fecundidad, desde la vida de las mujeres y varones).

Fertility Regulation and its Relationship to Stability of the Couple, Sexuality, and Quality of Life in Spanish (Las mujeres de El Alto se descubren a sí mismas).

Access to and Use of Reproductive Health Services in El Alto

Brazil:

Full (pdf 196k)

Sum
Factsheet
Sum
Factsheet

Adolescent Longitudinal Study

Consequences of Tubal Ligation for Women's Lives

China:

Full (pdf 593k)
descr.

Sum Factsheet

The Effect of Family Planning on Women's Lives

Egypt:

Full (pdf 758k)
descr.

Sum
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The Impact of Family Planning on the Lives of Egyptian Women

Reproductive Health Among Adolescents and Youth in Assiut Governorate, Egypt

Family Size and Gender Equity in Childrearing

The Social and Behavioral Outcomes of Unintended Pregnancy

Reproductive Health of Adolescent Married Women in Squatter Areas in Alexandria

The Role of Women as Family Planning Employees

Indonesia:

Full (pdf 224k)
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Full (pdf 269k)
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Full (pdf 151k)
description
Full (pdf 246k)
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Sum
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Family Planning, Family Welfare and Women's Activities

Family Planning and Women's Empowerment in the Family

Family Planning, Women's Work and Women's Household Autonomy

Reproductive Decision-making and Women's Psychological Well-being

Jamaica:

Full
(pdf 247)
descr.

Sum Factsheet

Reproductive Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behavior Among Young Adolescents

Korea:

 

Sum Factsheet

A New Look at the Fertility Transition and Its Impact on Women

Malaysia:

Full
(see 2)

Factsheet

The Effects Of Family Planning On Marital Disruption In Malaysia

Mali:

 

Sum Factsheet

Impact of Family Planning on the Lives of New Contraceptive Users in Bamako

Philippines:

Full
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Full
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Full
(pdf 672k)
 

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Cebu Longitudinal Follow-up Survey and In-depth Interviews

Social and Economic Consequences of Family Planning Use in the Southern Philippines

Economic and Psychosocial Influences of Family Planning on Women's Lives in Western Visayas

 Effects of Childbearing on the Quality of Women's Lives

Effects of Childbearing on Filipino Women's Labor Force Participation and Earnings

Nutritional Status of High-Fertility Women

Zimbabwe:

 

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The Impact of Family Planning on Women's Participation in the Development Process

Consequences of Family Planning for Women's Quality of Life

Influences of Gender on Women's Participation in the Development Process

  1. "For more details about study results see: Schuler SR, Hashemi SM, Jenkins AH. Bangladesh's family planning success story: a gender perspective. International Family Planning Perspectives 1995; 21(4): 132-37, 166. Also see: Schuler SR, Hashemi SM, Cullum A, Hassan M. The advent of family planning as a social norm in Bangladesh: women's experiences. Reproductive Health Matters 1996; 7: 66-78. A final report was not prepared by FHI on this study.
  2. "For more details about study results see: Kritz MM, Gurak DT. The effects of family planning on marital disruption in Malaysia. Presentation at the International Union for Scientific Study of Population meeting, Beijing, October 1997.
    Also see Gurak DT, Kritz MM. Family Planning and Women's Lives: The Malaysia Case. Indonesia Journal of Population 1995; 1(2): 131-56.
  3. "For an abbreviated version of findings from the four studies from the Women's Studies Project, see Hardee k, Eggleston E, Hull T, et al. Family Planning and Women's Lives: A Synthesis of Findings. The Women's Studies Project, Indonesia. Research Triangle Park, NC: Family Health International and Yayasan Kusuma Buana, 1998. Copies of the report may be obtained by writing Publications Coordination, FHI, PO Box 13950, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 USA."