Zhuo Zhang, Jie Li, Yansheng Chen, Fajun Chen, Zhonghao Liu
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summary paper reviews literature examining relationship womens empowerment contraceptive use unmet need contraception related family planning topics developing countries searches conducted using pubmed popline web science search engines may 2013 examine literature published january 1990 december 2012 among 46 articles included review majority conducted south asia n 24 household decisionmaking n 21 mobility n 17 commonly examined domains womens empowerment findings show relationship empowerment family planning complex mixed positive null associations consistently positive associations empowerment family planning outcomes found family planning outcomes investigations represented fewer twofifths analyses current use contraception commonly studied family planning outcome examined half analyses reviewed articles showed inconsistent findings review provides first critical synthesis literature assesses existing evidence womens empowerment family planning use