Table 2.
Reproductive Planning and Experience by Gender
| Variable | All (N = 218) |
Females (N = 154) |
Males (N = 64) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | pa | |
| Reproductive planning | ||||
| Number of children planned Median (minimum, maximum) |
2.0 (0.6) | 2.0 (0.4) | 2.0 (0.6) | 0.11 |
| Number of current children Median (minimum, maximum) |
2.0 (0.5) | 1.5 (0.5) | 2.0 (0.5) | <0.001 |
| Desire to have more children | ||||
| No | 103 (48.4) | 56 (37.1) | 47 (75.8) | <0.001 |
| Yes | 89 (41.8) | 77 (51.0) | 12 (19.4) | |
| Do not know | 21 (9.9) | 18 (11.9) | 3 (4.8) | |
| Ability to have more children | ||||
| No | 12 (13.5) | 11 (14.3) | 1 (8.3) | >0.99 |
| Yes | 60 (67.4) | 51 (66.2) | 9 (75.0) | |
| Do not know | 17 (19.1) | 15 (19.5) | 2 (16.7) | |
| Has career influenced the number of children you have/plan to have? | ||||
| No | 92 (42.4) | 51 (33.1) | 41 (65.1) | <0.001 |
| Yes | 101 (46.5) | 86 (55.8) | 15 (23.8) | |
| I do not know | 23 (10.6) | 16 (10.4) | 7 (11.1) | |
| Not applicable | 1 (0.5) | 1 (0.7) | 0 (0.0) | |
| Would have had children sooner if you had a different job? | ||||
| No | 70 (32.4) | 37 (24.0) | 33 (53.2) | <0.001 |
| Yes | 144 (66.7) | 116 (75.3) | 28 (45.2) | |
| Not applicable | 2 (0.9) | 1 (0.7) | 1 (1.6) | |
| Why did you delay childbearing (check all that apply) | ||||
| Professional reasons | 135 (93.8) | 109 (94.0) | 26 (92.9) | 0.69 |
| Financial reasons | 32 (22.2) | 21 (18.1) | 11 (39.3) | 0.02 |
| Personal reasons | 56 (38.9) | 49 (42.2) | 7 (25.0) | 0.09 |
| Other | 2 (1.4) | 2 (1.7) | 0 (0.0) | >0.99 |
| Reproductive experience | ||||
| Longest interval to pregnancy, conception or decision to stop trying? | ||||
| Currently trying to conceive | 9 (5.4) | 8 (6.8) | 1 (2.0) | 0.30 |
| <1 year | 90 (53.9) | 63 (53.4) | 27 (55.1) | |
| 1–3 years | 47 (28.1) | 35 (29.7) | 12 (24.5) | |
| >3 years | 21 (12.6) | 12 (10.2) | 9 (18.4) | |
| Age at the time of first delivery | ||||
| <25 years | 3 (2.0) | 2 (1.9) | 1 (2.3) | 0.30 |
| 25–30 years | 44 (29.7) | 28 (26.9) | 16 (36.4) | |
| 31–34 years | 54 (36.5) | 38 (36.5) | 16 (36.4) | |
| 35–39 years | 38 (25.7) | 31 (29.8) | 7 (15.9) | |
| 40–44 years | 9 (6.1) | 5 (4.8) | 4 (9.1) | |
| >45 years | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | |
| Stage of schooling at the time of first delivery | ||||
| Before medical school | 2 (1.4) | 2 (1.9) | 0 (0.0) | 0.01 |
| Medical school/graduate school | 7 (4.7) | 2 (1.9) | 5 (11.4) | |
| Post-doc | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | |
| Residency | 42 (28.4) | 24 (23.1) | 18 (40.9) | |
| Fellowship | 39 (26.4) | 31 (29.8) | 8 (18.2) | |
| After residency/fellowship | 58 (39.2) | 45 (43.3) | 13 (29.5) | |
a
p-Value is for Wilcoxon rank-sum test for continuous variables and Chi-square or Fisher's exact test for categorical variables, when appropriate.