WOMEN EMPLOYMENT AND GENDER ROLE: PREFERENCE FOR TWO CHILDREN FAMILY

The Two Child Norm is one of India's target oriented, family size control policies, which encourages parents to limit their families to two children. The Population Policy draft is aligned with the country's National Population Policy that aims at reducing or stabilising India's population by 2045. The pattern of the Female gender preference regarding the family size/number of children can reveal the role of woman in the family building decision. This study mainly focuses on the relationship between employment gender roles and preference of two children family. This study uses India Human Development Survey-II collected in 2012. The women in the age group 15-45 years are used for the study. Ordered response model is used to analyse the Women Employment and Gender Role on Preference for Two Children Family. Result shows women those are capable to take the decision on cooking, health care utilization have more influence on the decision to have two children. Some socio-demographic factors such as religion, literacy, marital status and number of children etc. also influence the decision making of the woman to prefer two children but further studies controlling for more confounding factors are needed to investigate the same connection more precisely.