Does paid work provide a pathway to women's empowerment? Empirical findings from Bangladesh

Does paid work provide a pathway to women's empowerment? Empirical findings from Bangladesh

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The debate about the relationship between paid work and women’s position within the family and society is a long standing one. Some argue that women’s integration into the market is the key to their empowerment while others offer more sceptical, often pessimistic, accounts of this relationship. T...

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Prif Awduron: Kabeer, Naila, Mahmud, Simeen, Tasneem, Sakiba
Awduron Eraill: BRAC Development Institute (BDI), BRAC University
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Cyhoeddwyd: BRAC University 2013
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Empowerment
Informality
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spelling 10361-25982019-09-29T05:26:59Z Does paid work provide a pathway to women's empowerment? Empirical findings from Bangladesh Kabeer, Naila Mahmud, Simeen Tasneem, Sakiba BRAC Development Institute (BDI), BRAC University Gender Paidwork Empowerment Informality The debate about the relationship between paid work and women’s position within the family and society is a long standing one. Some argue that women’s integration into the market is the key to their empowerment while others offer more sceptical, often pessimistic, accounts of this relationship. These contradictory viewpoints reflect a variety of factors: variations in how empowerment itself is understood, variations in the cultural meanings and social acceptability of paid work for women across different contexts and the nature of the available work opportunities within particular contexts. This paper uses a combination of survey data and qualitative interviews to explore the impact of paid work on various indicators of women’s empowerment ranging from shifts in intra‐household decision‐making processes to women’s participation in public life. It finds that forms of work that offer regular and relatively independent incomes hold out the greater transformative potential. In addition, it highlights a range of other factors that also appear to contribute to women’s voice and agency in the context of Bangladesh. Naila Kabeer Simeen Mahmud Sakiba Tasneem 2013-06-11T09:59:58Z 2013-06-11T09:59:58Z 2011 2011-07 Working paper http://hdl.handle.net/10361/2598 en Working Paper No. 05 61 pages application/pdf BRAC University
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topic Gender
Paidwork
Empowerment
Informality
spellingShingle Gender
Paidwork
Empowerment
Informality
Kabeer, Naila
Mahmud, Simeen
Tasneem, Sakiba
Does paid work provide a pathway to women's empowerment? Empirical findings from Bangladesh
description The debate about the relationship between paid work and women’s position within the family and society is a long standing one. Some argue that women’s integration into the market is the key to their empowerment while others offer more sceptical, often pessimistic, accounts of this relationship. These contradictory viewpoints reflect a variety of factors: variations in how empowerment itself is understood, variations in the cultural meanings and social acceptability of paid work for women across different contexts and the nature of the available work opportunities within particular contexts. This paper uses a combination of survey data and qualitative interviews to explore the impact of paid work on various indicators of women’s empowerment ranging from shifts in intra‐household decision‐making processes to women’s participation in public life. It finds that forms of work that offer regular and relatively independent incomes hold out the greater transformative potential. In addition, it highlights a range of other factors that also appear to contribute to women’s voice and agency in the context of Bangladesh.
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title Does paid work provide a pathway to women's empowerment? Empirical findings from Bangladesh
title_short Does paid work provide a pathway to women's empowerment? Empirical findings from Bangladesh
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