Table 2.

Knowledge assessment related to husbands about partners’ reproductive rights in Harar town, eastern Ethiopia, March 2020 (N = 611).

Knowledge questions	Frequency (yes)	%	Frequency (no)	%
Married women and married men have equal reproductive rights	261	42.7	350	57.3
Married women have the right to acquire reproductive health-related information/education where it is accessible without their partners’ consent	290	47.5	321	52.5
Married women have the right that their reproductive health issues are kept confidential/secret	365	59.7	246	40.3
Married women have the right to maternity leave with adequate social security benefits	290	47.5	321	52.5
Married women have no full right to access all Reproductive health services without partners’ consent	352	57.6	259	42.4
Married women have no right to autonomous reproductive service choices without their partners’ consent	330	54.0	281	46.0
Married women have no right to limit the number of their children according to their desire without their partners’ consent	365	59.7	245	40.1
All married women must be free to enjoy and control their sexual and reproductive life	417	68.2	194	31.8
Married women have no right to use contraceptives without their partners’ consent	276	45.2	335	54.8
It is sometimes justifiable/good for a husband to hit his partner	241	39.4	370	60.6
A husband should get sex whenever he wants irrespective of partner’s will	247	40.4	364	59.6