Original scientific paper
Position of Women in the Ladiya Society: Demographic Perspectives
Dipak Kumar Adak
Premananda Bharati
Abstract
Position of women has been assessed in terms of demographic perspectives among an offshoot population of a depressed
class, namely the Ladiya of Pathariya Jat village of Sagar district, Madhya Pradesh, India. Fertility as well as
infant mortality both is found to be considerably high among the womenfolk. It reveals that the Ladiya mothers opt for
frequent child bearing in order to make up the loss due to infant mortality, despite the consequent risk of their health as
well as survival. The present study, however, inferred that to improve overall status of the women, effort should be made
to improve their level of educational attainment and increase their active participation in economic activities for better
employment. This will help the women to have more autonomy in decision making to overcome the high rate of infant
mortality and birth rate – as well as natural growth rate of the study population.
Keywords
women autonomy; reproductive performance; offshoot Ladiya
Hrčak ID:
68937
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Publication date:
24.6.2011.
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