IJSSER

Title: Role of Women Empowerment in Determining Children’s Illness Rate: A case Study from two Districts of Manipur
Authors: Kshetrimayum Rabikan Singh and Dr. Shakti Kumar
\|\| \|\|
Kshetrimayum Rabikan Singh1 and Dr. Shakti Kumar2 1. Assistant Professor, Arignar Anna Govt Arts and Science College, Govt of Puducherry and is currently pursuing PhD at CESP, JNU, Delhi. 2. Professor, CESP, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi-110067.
MLA 8 Singh, Kshetrimayum Rabikan, and Dr. Shakti Kumar. "Role of Women Empowerment in Determining Children’s Illness Rate: A case Study from two Districts of Manipur." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, vol. 9, no. 9, Sept. 2024, pp. 3148-3160, doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2024.v09i09.002. Accessed Sep. 2024. APA 6 Singh, K., & Kumar, D. (2024, September). Role of Women Empowerment in Determining Children’s Illness Rate: A case Study from two Districts of Manipur. Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, 9(9), 3148-3160. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2024.v09i09.002 Chicago Singh, Kshetrimayum Rabikan, and Dr. Shakti Kumar. "Role of Women Empowerment in Determining Children’s Illness Rate: A case Study from two Districts of Manipur." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research 9, no. 9 (September 2024), 3148-3160. Accessed September, 2024. https://doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2024.v09i09.002.
References [1]. Anand, Sudhir and Ravallion, Martin (1993), Human Development in Poor Countries: On the Role of Private Incomes and Public Services, The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 7, No. 1, 133-150, Winter. [2]. Arbind Panagariya (2013), Does India really Suffer from Worst Child Malnutrition than Sub- Saharan Africa, Economic and Political Weekly, VOL XLVIII, No. 18, 98-111. [3]. Bardhan, Kalpana (1985). Women’s Work, Welfare and Status Forces of Tradition and Change in India. Economic and Political Weekly. Vol. 20, No. 51/52, 2261-2269. December. [4]. Begum, S., & Sen, B. (2009). Maternal Health, Child Well-Being and Chronic Poverty: Does Women’s Agency Matter? In Source: The Bangladesh Development Studies. Vol. 32, Issue 4. [5]. Bloom, S. S., Wypij, D., & Gupta, M. Das. (2021). Dimensions of Women’s Autonomy and the Influence on Maternal Health Utilization in a North Indian City. Demography.Vol.38, No. 1. [6]. Caldwell, J.C. (1979). Education as a factor in mortality decline: an examination of Nigerian data. Population Studies. Vol. 33, No.3, 395-413. [7]. Castelló-Climent, A., & Doménech, R. (2008). Human Capital Inequality, Life Expectancy and Economic Growth. In Source: The Economic Journal. Vol. 118, Issue 528. [8]. Chatterjee, P., & Dubey, A. (2023). The Role of Women’s Empowerment on Child Nutrition in India: A Longitudinal Analysis. Environ Dev Sustain. [9]. Cleland, J. (1990). Maternal Education and Child Survival: Further Evidence and Explanations. in What We Know about Health Transition: The Cultural, Social and Behavioural Determinants of Health, ed. J. Caldwell et al. Canberaa: Health Transition Centre, The Australian National University. [10]. Dreze, J., Guio, A.-C., & Murthi, M. (1996). Demographic Outcomes, Economic Development and Women’s Agency. Economic and Political Weekly. Vol. 31, Issue 27, 1739-1742. July. [11]. Drèze, J., & Sen, A. (2013). An Uncertain Glory Book: India and its Contradictions. Princeton University Press. [12]. Dyson, T., & Moore, M. (1983). On Kinship Structure, Female Autonomy, and Demographic Behaviour in India. Population and Development Review, Vol. 9, Issue 1, 35-36. March. [13]. Hobcraft, J (1993). Women’s Education, Child Welfare and Child Survival: A Review of Evidence. Health Transition Review. Vol. 3, Issue 2, 159-175. October. [14]. Jejeebhoy, S. J. (1991). Women’s Status and Fertility: Successive Cross-Sectional Evidence from Tamil Nadu, India, 1970-80. Studies in Family Planning. Vol. 22. http://about.jstor.org/terms [15]. Kabeer, N. (1999). Resources, agency, achievements: Reflections on the measurement of women’s empowerment. Development and Change, 30(3), 435–464. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-7660.00125 [16]. Mainuddin, AKM., Ara Begum, H., Rawal, L. B., Islam, A., & Islam, S. (2015). Women Empowerment and Its Relation with Health Seeking Behaviour in Bangladesh. Journal of Family and Reproductive Health. Vol. 9, Issue 2, 65-73. [17]. Malhotra, A., & Schuler, S. R. (2002). Measuring Women’s Empowerment as a Variable in International Development Acknowledgements. Background Paper, World Bank Workshop on Poverty and Gender: New Perspectives. June. [18]. Mason, K. O. (1986). The Status of Women: Conceptual and Methodological Issues in Demographic Studies. Sociological Forum. Vol 1 (2), 284-300. [19]. NITI Aayog. (2018). Healthy States, Progressive India: Report on the Ranks of States and Union Territories. Government of India.
ABSTRACT: This study examines the role of women in determining the children illness rate in two districts of Manipur. The analysis is based on a primary survey of 300 randomly selected married women having children with less than five years of age in Kakching and Chandel districts of Manipur. The study focuses on enabling factors of women as a measurement of women empowerment such as women’s education, labor force participation, access to formal and informal credit, access to mass media and print media. Bivariate analyses find that there is significant variation in the reported illness among the children in relation to their mothers’ socio-demographic indicators which include mothers’ education, occupation, work status, age at marriage, region of residence and district. The logistic regression finds statistically significant impact of women’s enabling factors such as access to media, access to microcredits and women’s education level in determining children’s illness rate. Thus, our regression analyses shed light on the importance of women empowerment in determining the children’s illness rates. Our study also fills the gap in the existing literature by exploring the role of women empowerment in determining the morbidity or illness among children. Further, our findings prove that a positive change in gender relations can improve the health conditions of children which is a valuable insight, especially for economically backward states.

IJSSER is Member of