Women’s Empowerment and Its Determinants in Bangladesh: Evidence from a National Survey

Sen, Kanchan Kumar; Nilima, Shahnaz

doi:10.3329/dujs.v66i2.54557

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“…Several other South Asian studies support our findings, including those from Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan and India (Abbas et al, 2021;Acharya et al, 2010;OlaOlorun & Hindin, 2014;Phan, 2016;Sen & Nilima, 2018;Senarath & Gunawardena, 2009), which found empowerment and participation in decision-making increased with a woman's age. Young girls are subject to intrahousehold power relations and have limited to no decision-making ability and agency because of their young age (OlaOlorun & Hindin, 2014).…”

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confidence: 88%

“…Our results confirm that living in a larger household of five members or more was significantly associated with the inability of young women to participate in any household decisions. Another study assessing 2014 DHS data from Bangladesh also found women living in large households were more likely to be disempowered (Sen & Nilima, 2018). Another significant association was young women with no children living in large family groups lack the agency to participate in decisions.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Women's participation in decision‐making: Analysis of Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey data 2017–2018

Kirkwood

Raihana

Alam

et al. 2023

J of Intl Development

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Gender‐based inequities prevent women from partaking in decision‐making. This study is a secondary analysis of the 2017–2018 Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (BDHS) data. We examined women's participation in no‐decisions against a set of independent variables to determine the factors associated with not participating in any decisions. The adjusted multivariable logistic regression revealed that women, aged 15–19, with no children, living in larger households, not employed for cash, agreed with at least one reason for husband's beating their wives and were not exposed to print media, were significantly less likely to be involved in any household decisions. This study sheds light on ways to promote women's active participation in decisions and to identify programme‐modifiable indicators for future research.

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confidence: 88%

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confidence: 99%

Women's participation in decision‐making: Analysis of Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey data 2017–2018

Kirkwood

Raihana

Alam

et al. 2023

J of Intl Development

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“…This implies that women's marriaged at lower ages are not economically empowered than women marriaged at highest age. This result is similar with (Abshoko, Terye et al 2016) , (Miedema, Haardörfer et al 2018), (Spierings, Smits et al 2010, de Groot, Kuunyem et al 2018, Sen and Nilima 2018.…”

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confidence: 89%

Determinants of Women Economic Empowerment in Northwestern Ethiopia

2022

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Women empowerment is one of the most important things that have been discussed in developing countries. Women's not economically empowered is one of the serious problems facing Ethiopia. The problem is high in Ethiopia in general, Legambo District in particular. However, the determinants of women's economic empowerment in the District are not yet assessed. In light of this problem, the objective of this study is to identify the determinants of women's economic empowerment. To realize the objective, primary and secondary data sources were used. Primary data were collected by key informants and semi-structured interviews of 278 married women randomly selected in four kebeles of Legambo district. The researchers employed both descriptive and inferential analysis such as simple frequencies, cross tabulation, and binary logistic regression model. The study found that 55.76 % of the respondents were not empowered while 44.24 of them were economically empowered at the time of the survey. And based on the binary Logit model, variables such as age in marriage, access to the media, information seeking behavior, community participation, positive husband's education level and current place of living were significant negative determinants of women's economic empowerment in Legambo district. Based on the findings of the study, it recommends that governments and concerned bodies of the country should intervene in order to improve women's economic empowerment, to improve women's access to information and participation in different development programs done in most practical or on the ground than theoretical or set only as strategic level.

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“…To build their families, each woman in a household has physical as well mental contributions. However, previous studies used a principal component analysis (PCA) [ 36 , 46 ] or a factor analysis [ 35 , 54 ] to measure the women’s empowerment index, where the studies developed several factors (or PCs) for MEI, but we have used a weighting approach giving equal weights to each dimension for getting a composite index of women’s empowerments following a technique of multidimensional poverty measures developed by Alkire and Foster and other research in the current study [ 37 , 55 ]. This composite index assigns a score to each woman, with higher scores signifying greater empowerment.…”

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Women’s multidimensional empowerment index and essential newborn care practice in Bangladesh: The mediating role of skilled antenatal care follow-ups

2023

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Introduction The World Health Organization recommended a set of five neonatal care practices that are most essential for good health of a newborn. As good essential newborn care (ENC) practice reduces the risk of neonatal morbidity and mortality, this paper focuses how women’s multidimensional empowerment index is associated with this practice through the skilled antenatal care. To the best of knowledge, no such study has been conducted yet. The composite index of women’s multidimensional empowerments was constructed using family decision, intimate partner violence, social status, healthcare access and economic status of women; and skilled antenatal care was defined if a pregnant woman received eight or more checkups during pregnancy from skilled health professionals. Materials and methods Data extracted from Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey, 2017–18 have been utilized in the study. A total of 2441 mothers have been considered who delivered their last live birth at home within three years preceding the survey. A mediation analysis was performed considering the structural equation modeling to find out the adjusted association of women’s empowerment on both skilled antenatal care and good ENC practice, but the unadjusted associations were also checked using a chi-square test. To test the indirect as well as total effect of women’s empowerment through skilled antenatal care on good ENC practice, bias-corrected standard errors were estimated using a bootstrapping sampling. Results Good ENC practice was considerably low in Bangladesh with 7.6% of newborns receiving the practice. Both adjusted and unadjusted analyses showed the significant association of women’s empowerment with both skilled antenatal care and good ENC practice. The study revealed that the indirect effect of high empowerment through skilled antenatal care was greater than its direct effect on good ENC practice. Conclusion This study explored that the prevalence of good ENC practice can be accelerated through women’s empowerment, where skilled antenatal care plays an important mediating role in improving good ENC practice among highly empowered mothers. The study suggests that a woman should follow the latest guidelines recommended by WHO for antenatal care follow-up. Policymakers can modify some of the maternal and child health care interventions based on the research findings.

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Women’s Empowerment and Its Determinants in Bangladesh: Evidence from a National Survey

Cited by 5 publications

References 13 publications

Women's participation in decision‐making: Analysis of Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey data 2017–2018

Women's participation in decision‐making: Analysis of Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey data 2017–2018

Determinants of Women Economic Empowerment in Northwestern Ethiopia

Women’s multidimensional empowerment index and essential newborn care practice in Bangladesh: The mediating role of skilled antenatal care follow-ups

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