{"id":226662,"date":"2023-02-15T19:17:14","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T13:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=226662"},"modified":"2023-02-22T10:38:57","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T05:08:57","slug":"education-more-than-wealth-determines-womens-marital-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/education-more-than-wealth-determines-womens-marital-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Education, more than wealth, determines women\u2019s marital age"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201c<\/b><b>Education, more than wealth, determines women\u2019s marital age<\/b><b>\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> published in<\/span><b> The Hindu <\/b>on<b> 15th February 2023.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Assam government is cracking down on child marriage and has registered over 4,000 cases just this year alone.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What are the factors that determine women\u2019s marital age?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b>Education: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Data from NFHS-5 show that the more educated a woman, the higher her negotiating power about when she wants to get married.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 Interestingly, this is not a recent phenomenon. Data suggests that for decades now, better-educated women have had more of a say on when they should get married.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Wealth:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Wealth has only recently gained relevance as a controlling factor in deciding a woman\u2019s marital age.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 Among older generations, even wealthier families married women at a younger age.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Caste<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: The median marriage age among SC\/ST\/OBC women was below 20 even among younger generations, while that of non-SC\/ST\/OBC women crossed 20.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Location:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The difference in the median marriage age between rural and urban women was wider among younger generations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 So, the negotiating power of urban women has improved at a higher pace than that of rural women.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cEducation, more than wealth, determines women\u2019s marital age\u201d published in The Hindu on 15th February 2023. What is the News? The Assam government is cracking down on child marriage and has registered over 4,000 cases just this year alone. What are the factors that determine women\u2019s marital&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/education-more-than-wealth-determines-womens-marital-age\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Education, more than wealth, determines women\u2019s marital age<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-226662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}