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Table 2 Acceptance of gender norms among women in pre-evaluation

From: The effect of a community based health promotion intervention to change gender norms among women in a rural community in Sri Lanka

Norm

Intervention pre-evaluation (%)

Control pre-evaluation (%)

P value*

Women are more responsible for nurturing and caring for children than men

 Agree

38 (90.4)

28 (93.3)

0.67

 Disagree

4 (9.6)

2 (6.6)

Women are more frugal than men

 Agree

42 (100.0)

29 (96.6)

0.23

 Disagree

0 (0.0)

1 (3.3)

Behaving violently to a problem is a masculine way

 Agree

29 (69.0)

24 (80.0)

0.29

 Disagree

13 (30.9)

6 (20.0)

Women must know more household activities than men

 Agree

40 (95.2)

26 (86.6)

0.19

 Disagree

2 (4.8)

4 (13.4)

Women should prepare meals for the family

 Agree

25 (59.5)

20 (66.6)

0.54

 Disagree

17 (33.5)

10 (33.3)

Consuming alcohol and tobacco is a masculine way

 Agree

5 (11.9)

11 (36.6)

0.06

 Disagree

37 (88.0)

19 (63.4)

 Total

42 (100.0)

30 (100.0)

 
  1. *Significance level ≤ 0.05