CW4B - Measuring patriarchy in India: temporal and spatial patterns Event
- Time:
- 15:00
- Date:
- 19 April 2023
- Venue:
- Building 100, Room 4011 (Harvard L/TB)
Event details
India Centre in association with Social Stats & Demography, ESPS is delighted to invite you to a CW4B lecture by Professor Abhishek Singh, Director, Centre of Demography of Gender at the International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS).
Professor Singh's talk will address the methodology and application of a newly developed patriarchy index across geographical regions and states within India.
Summary
While existing indices of gender equality measure the role of women's status and position, they inadequately contextualize the broader construct of patriarchy, a social system that underlies inequity in gender practices. An index capturing patriarchy may afford increased understanding of this social system, and may serve to complement other gender equality indices. This talk focusses on the development and testing of a novel composite measure, the India Patriarchy Index, to quantify the social and ideological construct of patriarchy using empirical data on family structure and gender roles. Psychometric testing demonstrates good internal reliability and construct validity of this index, with validity indicated by its association with three gender equality indices used in India. Spatial and temporal analyses further indicate much state-level variation in India Patriarchy Index scores as well as slow change on this indicator over time, based on time trend analyses from 1992-93 to 2015-16. Results demonstrate the utility of the India Patriarchy Index to measure and track gender equality progress in India.
Speaker information
Abhishek Singh, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Public Health and Mortality Studies at the International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai India. Prof. Singh has published more than 100 research papers in peer-reviewed national and international journals. Prof. Singh's research areas of interest are mortality analysis (including maternal mortality), maternal and child health, gender issues, designing, implementing and analyzing large-scale surveys. Prof. Singh was instrumental in designing and implementing the National Family Health Surveys in India. Prof. Singh was a Gates Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and he was also a recipient of the prestigious Leverhulme Fellowship to collaborate on research with faculty and students of the School of Health Sciences and Social Care University of Portsmouth UK. Professor Singh is currently heading the Centre of Demography of Gender at IIPS and leading the GENDER project.