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1. FARMING & RURAL SYSTEMS ECONOMICS
edited by Werner Doppler and Siegfried Bauer
Margraf Publishers72
S.Parveen:EmpowermentofRuralWomeninBangladesh
Shahnaj Parveen was born in 1969 in Gazipur district of
Bangladesh. She graduated from the Bangladesh Agricul-
tural University (BAU) in 1994 with a degree of Bachelor of
Science in Agriculture (Honours). She got the Master of
Science degree in Agricultural Extension Education in
1995 from the same university. She has been engaged in
teaching in the Department of Agricultural Extension
Education of BAU since 1996 as Lecturer and was later
promoted to Assistant Professor in 1999. In 2001, she
received a scholarship from the DAAD to pursue her doctoral study at the Justus-
Liebig University Giessen, Germany, which was successfully completed in 2005.
During the period of her doctoral study, she presented research papers in interna-
tional conferences held in Kyoto, Berlin and Durban. She also wrote journal arti-
cles for publication.
About the book:
Conducting any research on women’s empowerment in order to reduce poverty as
well as promote gender equality is of utmost significance in the context of
Bangladesh as well as elsewhere. This book contains empirical research findings
from a study conducted in Bangladesh to highlight the marginalisation of rural
women at household level. It examines the nature and extent of rural women’s
empowerment and the basic socio-economic factors influencing it. Six constructs
of women’s empowerment in three dimensions were chosen to develop a cumula-
tive empowerment index (CEI). A stepwise multiple regression was also performed
to explore the effects of several socio-economic factors on women’s empowerment.
The study concludes that education, training, media exposure and spatial mobility
of rural women have the potential to empower them. Specific interventions and
coordinated efforts by the government, non-government and women’s organisa-
tions as well as rural society for the advancement of rural women’s empowerment
sum up the strategy proposed in this book.
ISBN 3-8236-1469-X
ISSN 1616-9808 D 26
Empowerment of Rural
Women in Bangladesh:
A Household Level Analysis
Shahnaj Parveen
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