Abstract
The study was designed to explore the women’s empowerment through small-scale dairy farming in Bangladesh. Small-scale dairy farm owners constituted the population of the present study. Among the population, the households who were actively engaged in dairy farming activities more than one year in the selected area of Mymensingh district, they were considered as the sample unit. For data collection, 50 households from the sample unit were randomly selected for interview. Simple percentages were calculated to show the frequency distribution at different categories of variables. Through small-scale dairy farming, rural women were able to increase their confidence and decision-making power with regard to their household and personal care and experienced increased self-esteem, expansion of their social circles, and ultimately enhanced empowerment through the breakdown of traditional socio-cultural norms. Thus, the expansion of small-scale dairy farming in other rural areas of Bangladesh is likely to contribute to the empowerment of more rural women.
 Asian Australas. J. Food Saf. Secur. 2019, 3(2), 85-95
Highlights
Women’s empowerment plays an important role in socio-economic development in any country that involves improving decision-making, control over income, awareness about personal rights and freedom, improving position in the family and in general the confidence of rural women in their capabilities
The concept of women’s empowerment and efforts in this area has helped the country attain a steady progress in gender equality, which helped Bangladesh to secure the first spot in gender equality for the second consecutive year at the Gender Gap Index (GGI) of 2017
The households who were actively engaged in dairy farming activities more than one year in the selected area of Mymensingh district, they were considered as the sample unit of the study
Summary
Women’s empowerment plays an important role in socio-economic development in any country that involves improving decision-making, control over income, awareness about personal rights and freedom, improving position in the family and in general the confidence of rural women in their capabilities. Keller and Mbwewe (1991) stated that Empowerment is a process whereby women become able to organize themselves to increase their own self-reliance, to assert their independent right to make choices and to control resources which will assist in challenging and eliminating their own subordination. Bangladesh has been a role model in women’s empowerment in the past decade, and the country is experiencing an appreciable change in society because of its efforts in this regard. The index, prepared by World Economic Forum (WEF), measures education, economic participation, health and political empowerment to measure gender equality of any country.
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