Association between Infertility and Educated Working Women: Evidences
from Indian Data
Abstract
Infertility is a medical problem and carries serious demographic,
social, as well as health consequences. In the present study, an attempt
has been made to study the relationship between infertility and highly
educated working women after controlling for certain socioeconomic and
demographic variables and efforts have been made to see this relational
difference between urban and rural residing women. The information about
infertile women is collected from currently married women aged 20-35
using fourth round of National Family Health Survey data. Bivariate
analysis along with unadjusted and adjusted logistic regression is used
to access the relationship of our objective. Findings of the bivariate
analysis revealed that among sample of 40,401 currently married women
9.4% women are infertile in India. Out of 9.4% infertile women, 10.7%
reside in urban and 8.8% in rural areas. Findings of logistic
regression analysis show that women are 20% more likely to be infertile
if they are highly educated as well as have a job. Due to aspirations to
attain a higher educational level and attain employment, marriage is
delayed as a result of which in confirmation with aforementioned
causation factors (higher age at marriage, urban living style, etc.),
the infertility rate is high among this subgroup of the population.