CULTURAL COMPETENCE AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH: A Guide to Services For Immigrants and Refugees

cluding confounding variables (such as the economic position of the household, the schooling level of the father or the roles played by mass media rather than schools) usually reinforces the conclusion of an independent role of the schooling of the mother. However, attempts at unpicking the pathways through which girls’ schooling might have the effects on their later lives that is ascribed to it have been less successful. A favoured explanation—that schooling enhances the autonomy of young women, enabling them to make more decisions themselves about how many children to have, when, and how to raise them—is still, for example,...