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KMID : 0892720010050010007
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Journal of the Korean Society of Maternal and Child Health
2001 Volume.5 No. 1 p.7 ~ p.15
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A Study on Sex Preference, Cognition of Sex Difference and Experience about Forced Sex Selection of the Reproductive Women in Rural Area
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Kang Pock-Soo
Hwang Sun-Hwi
Lee Kyeong-Soo
Yun Sung-Ho
Kim Mi-Kyung
Kim Suk-Bum
Kang Young-Ah
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Abstract
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Objectives : This study was conducted to investigate the degree of and reasons for preferring certain sex according to the demographic characteristics of the reproductive women and to analyze the percentage of women who were put under pressure and had experienced subjective stress to have a son, and the relationship between the intention and experience to have a son through artificial means.
Methods : With 378 reproductive women who lived in Kyongju City, Kyongsangbuk-do Province, we conducted a self-administered questionnaire survey for demographic characteristics, degree of preference of a child of certain sex and the reasons for the preference, awareness and ways to improve sex imbalance, and experience of being under pressure to have a son.
Results : The preference of boy was high in women who were older than 40 years, residents of agricultural regions, in low economic status, in lower educational level than middle school, and whose job was full time hosewife; whereas the awareness of sex unbalance was low in these women. Forty-eight percent of the respondents answered that they had been under pressure from their parents-in-laws or from their parents to have a son and the proportion of those people who were under pressure to have a son was 55.8% in women who had daughters only, showing a relatively higher percentage than the other groups. Those women who were under pressure by the parents to bear a son showed a high degree of subjective stress and propensity toward sex selection of a baby. The experience rate of selecting the sex of their child was also significantly higher in these women (p≶O.05). As for the ways to improve male-preference thinking, 35.2% of the respondents demanded improving the sex discriminating social structure which was followed by enlightening the thinking of malepreference.
Conclusion : Based on these results, to ease the unbalanced sex ratio we suggest to improve the social structure that induces sex discrimination, and at the same time, to promote campaign against malepreference.
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KEYWORD
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sex ratio, sex preference, sex selection, reproductive women
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