♤ PARTICIPATION IN HOUSEHOLD DECISIONS

NFHS-3 has collected data on how women are participating in several other decisions and who usually makes them. Specifically, decisions related to own health care, large household purchases and visits to family or relations are considered for analysis.

The data on specific decisions and how they are being taken by the women exhibit that 73%, 91% and 89% of women even today are not able to take decisions alone with respect to their own health care, large household purchases and could not decide themselves even to visit their family or relatives respectively. Less than 50% of women have participated in decisions about visits to their family or relations jointly and only 35.1% of women have participated in decisions about their own health care jointly.