Abstract
Women especially in developing countries are not empowered in most of fields of their life. They depend on their husband or father in a number of ways. No doubt, education and change of society's attitude towards women is best tool to empower women. Decision making power regarding household, economic, healthcare and women participation in political and social activities can also play positive role to promote awareness to empower women in society. Nowadays, the scenario is changing in Bangladesh and women getting more empower in decision making, earnings and health care. This paper aims to evaluate the factors influencing women’s empowerment in Bangladesh. This paper focuses on women empowerment through decision making power at household level, health care, political and social activities. This study reveals that majority of the married women can jointly make decision about their household and economic segment, health care, the participation in political and social activities with their husbands. This paper also shows that urban respondents are relatively more empowered than their rural counterparts and types of place of residence plays a significant role in the women empowerment in Bangladesh. The women who are currently working have more freedom to make decision over their personal, social and political life than the women who are not currently working. This paper recognizes that there is a strong relationship between decision making power and women empowerment.
Highlights
Women empowerment has been studied as the prime concern to achieve the goal of gender equality in recent times
Firstly frequency distribution has been constructed to observe the percentage of the indicators of women empowerment (WE) and related influencing factors, and bivariate analysis through Chi-square test have been performed to see the relationships between indicators of women empowerment and the factors considered in this study
From the above analysis it can be concluded that there is a positive relationship between decision making power regarding household, economic, healthcare and women participation in political and social activities and women empowerment
Summary
Women empowerment has been studied as the prime concern to achieve the goal of gender equality in recent times. Gender equality influences the women and the society as a whole. The empowerment of women has been characterized by considering a multidimensional issue which can be indicated by education, occupation, discussing about family planning with partners, household decision making, free movement, age at marriage, political representation and legal rights [13]. All the targets of SDG 5 advocate ending all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere, ensuring women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision making in political, economic and public life, enhancing the use of technology, in information and communication technology etc. All the targets of SDG 5 advocate ending all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere, ensuring women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision making in political, economic and public life, enhancing the use of technology, in information and communication technology etc. to help women in achieving empower in society
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