Kathryn M. Yount, AliceAnn Crandall, Yuk Fai Cheong, Theresa L. Osypuk et al.
Child marriage (before age 18) is a risk factor for intimate partner violence (IPV) against women. Worldwide, Bangladesh has the highest prevalence of IPV and very early child marriage (before age 15). How the community prevalence of very early child marriage influences a woman's risk of IPV is unkn...
Kathryn M. Yount, Yuk Fai Cheong, Lauren Maxwell, Jessica Heckert et al.
Women’s empowerment is a process that includes increases in intrinsic agency (power within); instrumental agency (power to); and collective agency (power with). We used baseline data from two studies—Targeting and Realigning Agriculture for Improved Nutrition (TRAIN) in Bangladesh and Building Resil...
Kathryn M. Yount, Laurie James‐Hawkins, Yuk Fai Cheong, Ruchira Tabassum Naved
that promote more equitable community gender norms may be needed to mitigate IPV perpetration by younger men.
Kristin VanderEnde, Lynn Sibley, Yuk Fai Cheong, Ruchira Tabassum Naved et al.
In this research, we used a multi-level contextual-effects analysis to disentangle the household- and community-level associations between income and intimate partner violence (IPV) against women in Bangladesh. Our analyses of data from 2,668 women interviewed as part of the World Health Organizatio...
Kathryn M. Yount, Yuk Fai Cheong, Zara Khan, Stephanie Spaid Miedema et al.
OBJECTIVES: The health and social effects of women's microfinance participation remain debated. METHODS: Using propensity-score methods, we assessed effects of microfinance participation on novel measures of agency; intimate partner violence (IPV) exposure; and depressive symptoms in 930 wives in Ma...
Kathryn M. Yount, Yuk Fai Cheong, Stephanie Spaid Miedema, Ruchira Tabassum Naved
Assessing progress toward Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5, to achieve gender equality and to empower women, requires monitoring trends in intimate partner violence (IPV). Current measures of IPV may miss women’s experiences of economic coercion, or interference with the acquisition, use, and ma...
Kathryn M. Yount, Zara Khan, Stephanie Spaid Miedema, Yuk Fai Cheong et al.
Background. Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 prioritizes women’s empowerment, alone and to advance other SDGs. Measures of women’s empowerment have been resource focused; yet, agency (an aspect of empowerment) captures conscientization — the emergence of critical awareness and action for change....
Laurie James‐Hawkins, Yuk Fai Cheong, Ruchira Tabassum Naved, Kathryn M. Yount
OBJECTIVE: Coercive control in marriage is common in patriarchal settings, but multilevel determinants are understudied. METHOD: , we examined how exposure to violence in childhood and community-level gender norms were related to men's attitudes about gender equity and use of controlling behavior. W...
Daniel C. Semenza, Katherine A. Roof, Laurie James‐Hawkins, Yuk Fai Cheong et al.
Objective This article examines the relationship between the exposure of men as children to gender‐equitable parental decision making and the potential for subsequent later life engagement in intimate partner violence (IPV) in Bangladesh. Background Although researchers have recently begun to explor...
Zara Khan, Yuk Fai Cheong, Stephanie Spaid Miedema, Ruchira Tabassum Naved et al.
Prior studies of the association between intimate partner violence (IPV) and depressive symptoms have typically excluded economic coercion (EC), a prevalent form of IPV worldwide. Here, we used structural equation models (SEM) to estimate the association of EC with depressive symptoms, with and with...
Stephanie Spaid Miedema, Yuk Fai Cheong, Ruchira Tabassum Naved, Kathryn M. Yount
The Economic Coercion Scale 36 (ECS-36) is a validated scale measuring women’s exposure to economic coercion for low-income countries. A valid short form is needed to facilitate parsimonious measurement of economic coercion in general surveys or program evaluations. We used data from a probability s...
Kathryn M. Yount, Cari J. Clark, Irina Bergenfeld, Zara Khan et al.
INTRODUCTION: Girl child, early and forced marriage (CEFM) persists in South Asia, with long-term consequences for girls. CARE's Tipping Point Initiative (TPI) addresses the causes of CEFM by challenging repressive gender norms and inequalities. The TPI engages different participant groups on progra...
Laurie James‐Hawkins, Ruchira Tabassum Naved, Yuk Fai Cheong, Kathryn M. Yount
conducted by The International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b). Masculine dominance strain at both levels was related to the frequency of depressive symptoms. Financial strain only at the individual level was related to the frequency of depressive symptoms. We conclude t...
Kathryn M. Yount, Agnes Quisumbing, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Hazel Malapit et al.
Data to monitor progress towards gender-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) remain limited. A comprehensive, concise set of metrics is needed for routine national data collection to monitor progress toward these goals. Our team developed and tested the Women's Empowerment Metric for Nationa...
Stephanie Spaid Miedema, Yuk Fai Cheong, Ruchira Tabassum Naved, Kathryn M. Yount
Zara Khan, Yuk Fai Cheong, Stephanie Spaid Miedema, Ruchira Tabassum Naved et al.