Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data are used to examine what predicts current contraception and condom use among married women in Ghana. Women’s gender-based power is examined in the three dimensions of interpersonal decision-making power, household status, and socioeconomic status; these dimensions are considered as predictor or focal variables. Ghanaian women’s higher sexual decision-making power, greater education, work outside of the home, work for pay, more living children, and monogamous marriages are associated with a greater likelihood of contraceptive use. Higher contraceptive use is found among young urban women who do not want more children and who have been visited by a family planning worker. In contrast, condom use is shaped by different factors that highlight its distinctiveness as being male-controlled. Policy planning should consider the importance of women’s power and the uniqueness of condom use as a male-controlled contraceptive method as well as the positive effect of contact with a family planning worker in shaping both contraceptive and condom use.

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加纳已婚妇女的性别权力与避孕和避孕套的使用

人口与健康调查 (DHS) 数据用于检查对加纳已婚妇女当前避孕和安全套使用情况的预测。从人际决策权、家庭地位、社会经济地位三个维度考察女性的性别权力；这些维度被视为预测变量或焦点变量。加纳妇女更高的性决策权、更高的教育、在外工作、有偿工作、更多的在世子女和一夫一妻制婚姻与更大的避孕使用可能性有关。在不想要更多孩子且曾被计划生育工作者探访过的年轻城市妇女中发现避孕药具的使用率较高。相比之下，安全套的使用受不同因素的影响，突出了其由男性控制的独特性。