“…Due to the gender specific barriers and socio-economic and cultural disparities, rural women in the society remain the most vulnerable section in Bangladesh (Alam, Monirul Alam, & Mushtaq, 2018;Khatun, 2017;Mersland, Nyarko, & Szafarz, 2019;Sarker, Yang, Lv, Enamul, & Kamruzzaman, 2020b). Poverty incidence is comparatively severe and acute among women than men (Khanam, Mohiuddin, Hoque, & Weber, 2018).…”