ABSTRACT This article investigates the association between financial autonomy and three other measures of autonomy – sexual autonomy, perceived reproductive autonomy and actual reproductive autonomy in Ga-Mashie, Accra, Ghana. From anthropological accounts, the financial independence of women from this community, coupled with unique living arrangements, have resulted in them being independent and autonomous. The analytical sample consists of 172 women who were in union at the time of the survey. Binary logistic and ordered logistic regression models ran between financial autonomy and the other measures of autonomy, and controlling for relevant socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of the women, reveal that in this context, financial autonomy does not have the perceived effect of increasing autonomy in the three other spheres. Rather, measures that hint at egalitarianism and close marital relationships – namely, marital power, agreement with partners about reproductive issues and marital duration – are more significantly associated with sexual and reproductive autonomy. We conclude that, coupled with schemes to increase the financial autonomy of women, in this context, other measures aimed at improving marital relationships should be explored and encouraged.

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经济自主是否意味着生育和性自主？来自加纳阿克拉城市贫困妇女的证据

摘要 本文调查了加纳阿克拉 Ga-Mashie 的财务自主权与其他三种自主权措施——性自主权、感知生殖自主权和实际生殖自主权之间的关联。从人类学的角度来看，这个社区的女性在经济上的独立性，加上独特的生活安排，使她们变得独立和自主。分析样本由 172 名在调查时处于婚姻状态的女性组成。二元逻辑和有序逻辑回归模型在财务自主权和其他自主权措施之间运行，并控制了女性的相关社会经济和人口特征，表明在这种情况下，财务自主权在三个方面没有增加自主权的感知效果。其他领域。相当，暗示平等主义和亲密婚姻关系的措施——即婚姻权力、与伴侣就生殖问题和婚姻持续时间达成的协议——与性和生殖自主性更显着相关。我们的结论是，在这种情况下，除了提高妇女财务自主权的计划外，还应探索和鼓励旨在改善婚姻关系的其他措施。