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      Intergenerational Transmission of Female Genital Cutting: Community and Marriage Dynamics

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          Abstract

          Objective:

          This study examined how characteristics of households and communities are linked with the intergenerational transmission of gender inequality and particularly female genital cutting (FGC).

          Background:

          Human capital perspectives suggest that socioeconomic inequality predicts FGC continuation. This study contributes to discussions of institutional change by examining the association of decisions to forego FGC with household decision-making patterns and community gender norms.

          Method:

          Multilevel logistic regression was deployed to analyze a pooled sample (N = 12,144) of six Demographic and Health Surveys from Burkina Faso, Egypt, Guinea, Kenya, Mali and Nigeria. A series of models examined how decision-making styles, both at the household and community levels (2,524 DHS cluster aggregations), and community levels of FGC, correspond with the risk of having a daughter cut.

          Results:

          Results show that daughters are less likely to be cut when parents make key household decisions jointly. Autonomous decision-making by women at the community level was associated with lower odds of daughters being cut. However, at the community level, the impacts of women’s household decision-making were attenuated when FGC was more prevalent.

          Conclusion:

          The findings suggest that women’s decision-making status is an important factor in FGC abandonment although that association is less robust when FGC is highly institutionalized. This study provides new insights into how women, families, and communities can disrupt the intergenerational transmission of behaviors associated with institutionalized gender inequality.

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          Journal
          0375376
          25872
          J Marriage Fam
          J Marriage Fam
          Journal of marriage and the family
          0022-2445
          1741-3737
          18 February 2019
          6 March 2019
          June 2019
          01 June 2020
          : 81
          : 3
          : 631-647
          Affiliations
          Sociology Department, University of Minnesota, 909 Social Sciences Building, 267 19 th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55455, boyle014@ 123456umn.edu , 612-624-3343
          Human Development and Family Studies Department, Iowa State University, 4380 Palmer Building, 2222 Osborn Drive, Ames, IA 50011, jjsvec@ 123456iastate.edu , 515-294-6316
          Article
          PMC6860922 PMC6860922 6860922 nihpa1011634
          10.1111/jomf.12560
          6860922
          31741540
          91c77a36-116a-4027-88d8-86cda5f2e3ff
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          Decision making,Children,Cross-cultural,Human Rights,Intergenerational,Marriage

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