Table 3 Themes and categories from the interviews with women N = 40
From: Women’s well-being and reproductive health in Indian mining community: need for empowerment
Themes | Categories |
|---|---|
Socio-economic, cultural and environmental well-being | Not having enough money |
Not having the basic necessities of life | |
Less work opportunities | |
Loss of agricultural fields | |
Husbands are not financially support family | |
No education for self and children | |
Lack of clean water, sanitation, firewood, open spaces, forest produce | |
Women’s status, role and well-being | Gender differences/ inequality |
Performing socially constructed roles | |
Less attention to self | |
Inability to make reproductive health choices | |
Feeling of powerlessness and isolation | |
Less freedom of choice and mobility | |
Health, gender preference and cultural well-being | Susceptibility of acute and chronic illness |
Illness and dependence on medications | |
Psychological stress and anxiety | |
Gender preference | |
Unable to obtain or use information | |
Difficulties in obtaining help/ access to healthcare | |
Marital relationship, support and decision-making well-being | Wife beating |
Family disharmony/stress | |
Poor marital relationship | |
Strained relationship with in-laws | |
No hope for the future |