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Role of women's empowerment in determining fertility and reproductive health in Bangladesh: a systematic literature review.
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- Women's Attitudes Toward Fertility and Childbearing: A National Cross-Sectional Study in Saudi Arabia.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Understanding the issues of women's empowerment and fertility in Bangladesh.Reproductive health · 2025Article
- Maternal disorders among women aged 15 to 49 years: global trends and inequalities from the GBD study 2021.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Effect of women's empowerment on lowering the number of children ever born in Bangladesh.BMC women's health · 2025Article
- The Role of Women's Empowerment in Fertility Preferences and Outcomes: Analysis of the 2017 Indonesia Demographic and Health Survey.BMC women's health · 2025Article
- Examining men's attitudes toward family planning in Istanbul, Turkey.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Successful strategies that address gender-related barriers and promote bodily autonomy within efforts to scale up and sustain postpregnancy contraception: a scoping review.BMJ global health · 2025Article
- Does women empowerment alone influence contraception utilization in Bangladesh perspective? Findings from the 2017-2018 Demographic Health Survey using a structural equation model analysis.AJOG global reports · 2025Article
- Factors associated with adolescent pregnancy among girls aged between 15 and 19 years in Muhanga district, Rwanda.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Who marries whom and intentions for second child: Using family decision-making power as mediator.PloS one · 2025Article
- Determinants of tetanus immunization among pregnant women where tetanus has not been eliminated: a multilevel analysis of 6 countries.Frontiers in global women's health · 2025Article
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Abstract
introductionResearch on fertility and reproductive health has expanded rapidly. However, questions regarding the association between women empowerment and fertility in terms of the reproductive health status in Bangladesh remain unanswered. This study aimed to address these questions through a systematic literature review.
methodsIn this review study, the PubMed, Scopus, Banglajol, and Google Scholar databases were searched systematically and screened in terms of the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Data from 15 articles included in this review were extracted for further assessment.
resultsFifteen studies with a total of 212,271 participants from Bangladesh met our selection criteria. Most of the articles were conducted on ever-married women aged 15 to 49 years using nationally representative Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey data. The major religions were Islam (86.8%-90.2%) and Hinduism (10%-13%). The age of women at first marriage varied from 14 to 20 years, and the age at first birth ranged from 16 to 22 years. The fertility rate in Bangladesh has reduced remarkably over the period from 1975 to 2022. After controlling for other social and health factors, the study found that empowerment factors such as women's education, working status, involvement in household decision-making, participation in economic decision-making, and freedom in movement influenced the fertility and reproductive health status in Bangladesh.
conclusionAs an initial step, this study found a negative relationship between women's empowerment and the control of fertility and reproductive health. Greater policy focus should be directed toward women empowerment factors to improve the fertility situation and reproductive health status in Bangladesh and other countries with similar sociodemographic profiles.
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