Exploring The Relationship between Women’s Economic Empowerment and Fertility Intension in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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2024-06
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Addis Ababa University
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Women's empowerment is an important indication of societal transition, and it is a global priority because it has implications on population size, development, health, and education. Many women in developing country like Ethiopia had low economic empowerment and had also large population size. Therefore, exploring women economic empowerment and relationship with fertility intention could show the key controlling and balancing the economy and population size. The study aims to explore women’s economic empowerment and their fertility intention in Addis Ababa. Cross-section study was applied for the study. Double population proportion sample size was used to calculate the sample of 605. Two stage cluster sampling techniques were applied. Frequency, t-test, and binary and multiple regression were used in the analysis. The result show economically empowered women who marry between the ages of 28 and 37 have 7.1 times the fertility intention of married women aged 18 to 27 (p-value= 0.022) (AOD 95%CI: 7.1: 1.3-38.1). In contrast, those women economical empowered and those employed women had 95% low fertility intention among those who were not employed (pvalue 0.002) (AOD 95% CI: 0.05: 0.08-0.3). Economically empowered women face barriers to become high fertility intention the barriers were mentioned, mothers' lack of intention to carry a child and the perception that having a minimum number is more civilized. Age at marriage also effects on fertility intention, with women nearing menopause having a stronger intention to have children than those who are far from menopause in both economically and non-economically empowered women. To maintain fertility rates in other parts of the country, it is important to enhance women's economic empowerment through income-generating activities such as employment and trade. This can be done through various stakeholders, including government bodies, using Addis Abeba as an example.
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Fertility intention, women economic empowerment, desired number of children.