Using Statistical Data to Promote Women’s Reproductive Rights

Sociology professor Rozzet Jurdi uses her training in social demography and population studies to explore a startling lack of contraceptive choice for women in Egypt, Jordan and Morocco. For Jurdi it is fundamentally a question of rights. She says, ‘Imagine if you didn't want to have more children and had no means to avoid getting pregnant? In all developed societies we have reached a stage where we decide freely, and with ample choice.' Statistical analysis is the tool she uses to underscore the problem. She says, ‘When you put things in numbers you have the data to support your claim that that there is a problem and that we need to help.'