The Context Specific Factors Affecting Women Empowerment and Empowerment's Implications for Resource Allocation, Awareness and Fertility: An Econometric Analysis

• Autorzy: Mohammad Mokammel Karim Toufique
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Using data from a survey of Bangladeshi households, this paper constructs an index of women empowerment and explores both the determinants of empowerment of married women and the impacts that empowerment has on various aspects of a woman's life. The findings reveal that female education, her involvement in income generating activities (both formal and informal) and the structure of the household (unit or extended) are important determinants. As regards the impacts of empowerment on the female's life, the paper finds that empowerment affects her food intake and expenditure patterns in quantitative and qualitative terms - it positively impacts women's nutritional status and health care and confers positive impacts on taking family planning measures. Also empowered women's behavior is less discriminating when it comes to serving food among family members. (original abstract)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Empowerment of society; Women's position in society; Family planning; Public awareness

PL

Upodmiotowienie społeczeństwa; Pozycja kobiety w społeczeństwie; Planowanie rodziny; Świadomość społeczna

• Czasopismo: International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences (ILSHS)
• Rocznik: 2016
• Tom: 66
• Strony: 38--44

Twórcy

autor

Mohammad Mokammel Karim Toufique

• United International University UIU, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.18052/www.scipress.com/ILSHS.66.38