Marriage and marriage migration are often downplayed in the migration literature. The role of location in the decisionmaking underlying marriage migration, and the relations between marriage and labor migration, are little understood. Research that focuses on international marriages and on Western or capitalist economies has highlighted marriage as a strategy, but little attention is given to d...

This paper examines age patterns of first marriage and motherhood and covariates of early marriage, delayed consummation of marriage and early motherhood in Nepal using data from the 2000 Nepal Adolescent and Young Adult Survey (NAYA). Both unmarried and married male and female youths (age 14-22) were included in the survey. The analysis is based on 2800 urban youths and 5075 rural youths with ...

Partner violence is a serious public health problem affecting mostly women. This qualitative study assessed the perceptions of rural Igbo women of Nigeria of intimate partner violence. Information was elicited using in-depth interviews and focus group discussion. Women of childbearing age were selected from the various women age grades in Ozubulu, Anambra State, Nigeria. Findings revealed that ...

OBJECTIVES We sought to conduct a detailed study on the risk factors of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) in Omani women to determine the actual and applicable risk factors and glucose profile in this population. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional case-control study using pregnant women diagnosed with GDM. Pregnant women without GDM were used as a control group. We collected information...

This study examines the association between religious affiliation and reasons for marriage, perceived church attitudes, and reproductive health-seeking behaviors, including HIV testing, among young women in eastern rural Zimbabwe. The sample comprised women (N = 35) who had married by 2012 while participating in a larger randomized controlled trial (RCT) to test the effects of school support on...

Although economic opportunities for women are thought to influence marriage market outcomes today, they receive little attention in accounts of 19th century American marriage patterns. The principle behind this mechanism is simple: women may choose to substitute away from marriage as alternatives become more attractive. However, providing evidence for this behavior is challenging because choice...

This work focuses on a controversial topic within women studies of the Islamic world, the very young marriage of Mohammad's second wife Aisha. The work attempts to meet the issue on level ground and explain that while this may seem as a spark on conflict between non-Muslim cultures and the Islamic world this marriage was not altogether that uncommon for the time.

Using data from the Luxembourg Income Study, the authors study the relationship between women's poverty and women's roles--being married or single, having children or not, and working or not. Specifically, they test the assumption that women who play the "traditional" role of marriedmother-homemaker are protected from poverty, and they investigate the extent to which "nontraditional" women--tha...

Matching under preferences is a topic of great practical importance, deep mathematical structure, and elegant algorithmics [Manlove 2013; Gusfield and Irving 1989]. The most famous example is the stable marriage problem, where n men and n women compete with each other in the “marriage market.” Each man ranks all the women according to his individual preferences, and each woman does the same wit...

Marriage is a social institution that adopts patriarchal ideology to regulate the relationship between husband and wife. As result, conflicts based on gender inequality can arise as ideologies in marriage reinforce dominance of men over women. A married woman’s life often portrayed feminist literature, such short story Qaisra Shahraz, Zemindar’s This study analyzes Noor by applying theory Simon...