A qualitative analysis of women’s reproductive agency and postpartum family planning in Maharashtra, India

• Nandita Bhan ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: nandita.bhan@jgu.edu.in

  Affiliations Jindal School of Public Health and Human Development, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, Haryana, India, Center on Gender Equity and Health, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0009-0003-0383-4000

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• Edwin Elizabeth Thomas,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1060-7394

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• Gennifer Kully,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center on Gender Equity and Health, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

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• Mohan Ghule,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center on Gender Equity and Health, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

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• Anita Raj,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Newcomb Institute, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America, Celia Scott Weatherhead School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

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• Lotus McDougal,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center on Gender Equity and Health, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3002-0489

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• Abhishek Singh,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Public Health & Mortality Studies and Centre of Demography of Gender, International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6263-4410

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• Sarah Averbach

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center on Gender Equity and Health, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

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