IJSR - International Journal of Scientific Research

Dr. Savita Kamble; Dr. Parimal Udapurkar

Volume : VIII, Issue : VIII, August - 2019

Feminism and Tubectomies: A study assessing the awareness and opinion of women and their husbands regarding the permanent methods of sterilisation

Dr. Savita Kamble, Dr. Parimal Udapurkar

Abstract :

Despite the evidence–backed superiority of vasectomy, tubectomies remain the most popular method of sterilisation in India. In this era of roå feminism, such a skewed preference for tubectomy demanded scrutiny. The high tubectomy rates could be a manifestation of low empowerment of women in families as far as the decision making process of sterilisation is concerned. A semi–structured questionnaire based cross–sectional descriptive study was conducted. Cultural factors were found to be influencing the decision more than informational factors. Most women and their husbands were found to prefer tubectomy only because sterilisation was mostly taken up by women in our society and had now become a norm. Majority of the couples were also unaware of the relative superiority of vasectomy since most people received their information on vasectomy from hearsay and not healthcare outlets. The awareness of the current incentives provided for vasectomy was also found to be low.