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Modern Marriage in a Traditional Society: The Influence of College Education on Marriage in India.
- Source :
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Journal of Family Issues . May2024, Vol. 45 Issue 5, p1116-1141. 26p. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- India has witnessed a dramatic expansion of higher education, and women have emerged as noteworthy winners in the process. This paper focuses on the role of female college education on four dimensions of marriage: age at marriage, autonomy in the choice of spouse, work and financial empowerment, and quality of marital relationship. The study uses a sample of 35,561 currently married women from the 2011-2012 wave of the nationally representative India Human Development Survey (IHDS). It demonstrates that higher education, particularly college education, enables women to lead lives substantively different from their less-educated peers. College-educated women marry at later ages, enjoy greater autonomy in choosing their husbands, and have a more egalitarian relationship with their spouses. Furthermore, the study finds that educational homogamy and hypogamy afford greater autonomy to women. Even without a concomitant increase in labor force participation, college education among women appears to have a transformative effect on marriage in India. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0192513X
- Volume :
- 45
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Family Issues
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 176694423
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0192513X231155591