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...
Sheela Sinharoy, Jillian Waid, Regine Haardörfer, Amanda S. Wendt et al.
Abstract The relationship between women's empowerment and women's nutrition is understudied. We aimed to elucidate this relationship by quantifying possible pathways between empowerment and dietary diversity among women in rural Bangladesh. In 2015, we conducted a cross‐sectional survey of 2,599 mar...
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...
Sidney Ruth Schuler, Rachel Lenzi, Kathryn M. Yount
This article presents qualitative findings from a project designed to develop better methodological tools for clarifying women's and men's attitudes about intimate partner violence (IPV) in rural Bangladesh and their perceptions of norms about IPV in their communities. Cognitive interviews and focus...
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.
Kathryn M. Yount, Nafisa Halim, Sidney Ruth Schuler, Sara K. Head
According to the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) in poorer countries, 50 % of women of reproductive age report that wife hitting or beating is justified. Such high rates may result from structural pressures to adopt such views or to report the perceived socially desirable response. In a survey ...
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...
Sidney Ruth Schuler, Kathryn M. Yount, Rachel Lenzi
Understanding attitudes about intimate partner violence (IPV) in cultural context is important for developing interventions to reduce it or mitigate its effects. This article presents qualitative findings from research conducted in rural Bangladesh to understand men's and women's responses to attitu...
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...
Sheela Sinharoy, Jillian Waid, Masum Ali, Kathryn M. Yount et al.
Anika Hannan, Jessica Heckert, Laurie James‐Hawkins, Kathryn M. Yount
In 2015, the United Nations adopted the Sustainable Development Goals, which include fostering gender equality and women's empowerment and ending hunger and malnutrition. To monitor progress and evaluate programmes that aim to achieve these goals, survey instruments are needed that can accurately as...
Kathleen H. Krause, Regine Haardörfer, Kathryn M. Yount
BACKGROUND: Our objective was to examine the multilevel correlates of women's justification of wife beating in Bangladesh, a form of intimate partner violence (IPV). We focus on individual-level schooling, community-level media exposure among women and their interaction. METHODS: A cross-sectional s...
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, Stephanie Spaid Miedema, Chris C. Martin, AliceAnn Crandall et al.
Sara K. Head, Kathryn M. Yount, Monique Hennink, Claire E. Sterk
In Bangladesh, dramatic social and economic changes are transforming historical forms of patriarchy with various impacts on pathways to women's empowerment. We hypothesised contemporary resources would be more strongly associated with women's empowerment, as reflected in their influence in family de...