فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

BACKGROUND: Trivandrum is a place with better educational status for women. The aim of thisstudy is to describe young women’s attitude toward gender‑equitable norms.METHODS: A cross‑sectional survey was conducted in Trivandrum, using multistage clustersampling method. Participants were 18–28‑year‑old married (n = 203) and unmarried (n = 104)women. The scales of domestic chores and daily life domain items and violence domain items fromthe compendium of gender scales were used to assess the attitude toward gender‑equitable norms.Pearson Chi‑square test was used to check the significance of the associations.RESULTS: The high support to gender‑equitable norms on domestic chores and daily life domainwas 29% and 18% and violence domain was 25% and 14% among unmarried and marriedwomen, respectively. Education was interrupted among 55% of married women due to marriage,pregnancy, childcare, and lack of resources. The ability to take final decision to work outside thehome (32% vs. 45%) and in obtaining health care (65% vs. 73%) was low among married womencompared to unmarried women. Higher education did not affect the attitude of young women towardgender‑equitable norms on “violence domain,” but the highly educated married women showed aslightly better support for “domestic chores and daily life domain” and had a major say in takingdecisions on health‑care seeking and work outside home.CONCLUSIONS: In general, the support for gender‑equitable norms and the freedom indecision‑making are not satisfactory among young women. Education alone cannot make rapidchanges in the attitude of young women toward gender‑equitable norms since it is strongly connectedwith social norms and practices.