Curse of the Mummy‐Ji: The Influence of Mothers‐In‐Law on Women in India†
Curse of the Mummy‐Ji: The Influence of Mothers‐In‐Law on Women in India†
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木乃伊吉的诅咒：婆婆对印度女性的影响†
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发表时间：
2020
影响因子：
4.2
通讯作者：
Mahesh Karra
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作者：
S. Anukriti;Catalina Herrera;P. Pathak;Mahesh Karra
家庭成员施加的限制性社会规范和战略约束可能限制妇女进入社会网络并从中获益，特别是在父系社会中。我们描述了印度农村年轻已婚女性的社会网络特征，并分析了家庭内部代际权力动态如何影响其网络形成。利用来自北方邦的原始数据，我们发现与婆婆同住与儿媳妇的流动性和在家庭外形成社会联系的能力呈负相关，尤其是与健康、生育和计划生育有关的社会联系。我们的研究结果表明，婆婆的限制性行为可能是由婆婆和儿媳之间的生育偏好失调所驱动的。在家庭之外缺少同伴降低了儿媳妇去计划生育诊所和使用现代避孕方法的可能性。我们发现暗示的证据表明，这是因为外部同伴(1)积极影响儿媳对计划生育的社会可接受性的信念；(2)通过陪同儿媳去诊所，使她能够克服行动限制。
Restrictive social norms and strategic constraints imposed by family members can limit women’s access to and benefits from social networks, especially in patrilocal societies. We characterize young married women’s social networks in rural India and analyze how inter-generational power dynamics within the household affect their network formation. Using primary data from Uttar Pradesh, we show that co-residence with the mother-in-law is negatively correlated with her daughter-in-law’s mobility and ability to form social connections outside the household, especially those related to health, fertility, and family planning. Our findings suggest that the mother-in-law’s restrictive behavior is potentially driven by the misalignment of fertility preferences between the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law. The lack of peers outside the household lowers the daughter-in-law’s likelihood of visiting a family planning clinic and of using modern contraception. We find suggestive evidence that this is because outside peers (1) positively influence daughter-in-law’s beliefs about the social acceptability of family planning and (2) enable the daughter-in-law to overcome mobility constraints by accompanying her to health clinics.