For Dr. Furman, red flags are raised by "precocious daters" who pair off before their peers, and by "uneven, inequitable relationships," in which one partner is controlling and the other dependent.
Environmental health research can document exposures and health effects that result from inequitable relationships between communities of low income or people of color and the institutions that derive benefits (profits, federal and state funding or services, avoidance of wastes) from activities and policies that burden these communities.
Addams goes on to address the powerlessness of domestic work particularly as it entails isolation and a highly inequitable power relationship: "The household employé[sic] has no regular opportunity for meeting other workers of her trade, and of attaining with them the dignity of corporate body" (ABI 538).
The findings also suggest that the effects of couple HIV testing on marital relationships may be modulated by inequitable, gendered power relationships.
Some of the most serious harms include: a prevailing climate of suspicion and adversarial relationships; inequitable application of the law; stultification of originality; weakening of society's moral fiber and cohesion; repressive potential for a totalitarian government; blacklisting; ex-ante discrimination and guilt prediction and inversion of the onus of proof.
In all likelihood, a comprehensive reproductive health program in South Sudan would require an integrated approach that empowers women, engages men, and addresses underlying gender inequitable norms regarding sexual relationships and family planning.
While the majority of women and men in our study agreed with gender inequitable statements regarding sexual relationships, the majority of women and men agreed it is a woman's responsibility to avoid getting pregnant.
The majority of surveyed women and men agreed with gender inequitable norms related to sexual relationships and reproductive health.
This study, conducted prior to the country's 2011 independence, aimed to assess attitudes toward gender inequitable norms related to sexual relationships and reproductive health and the effects of sex, age, and education on these attitudes.
The objectives of the study were to provide data on attitudes toward gender inequitable norms related to sexual relationships and reproductive health in South Sudan and to assess whether attitudes toward these norms differed according to sex, age, or education.
Our study provides data on the attitudes of both women and men in South Sudan toward gender inequitable norms related to sexual relationships and reproductive health at a time when the newly independent nation is strengthening reproductive health programs and policies.
