The Bargaining Power of Female within Household and Choice of Contraceptive Methods with Side-Effect of Hormonal Contraceptive Methods in Sub-Sahara Africa

Hirotaka Matsuda, Tokyo University of Agriculture
Mayuko Uesaka, Tokyo University of Agriculture
Yuka Shimamura, The University of Tokyo

The purpose of this study is to examine whether legal systems, which affects bargaining power of women within the household through ensuring property rights, defines choice of contraceptive methods after side effect of hormonal contraceptive methods is recognized by the couples in sub-Sahara Africa. Side effects of hormonal contraceptive methods affect health status of female and prevents female from providing lavour input for productive and reproductive work. The household likely to face decreasing welfare of the household because of severer resource constraint from reducing labour input of female and bargaining power of female is likely to be reduced because of difficulty of contribution to create resources for the household. Reproductive health rights established in ICPD in 1994 contributes to protect rights of female in terms of health, particularly. However, it relates to dynamics of bargaining power of female within the household as well as loss of welfare of the household.