Changes in women’s lives through paid work and NGO membership: Qualitative evidence from two villages in Bangladesh

Changing women’s lives through empowerment resources is important, but there are debates on how different resources of empowerment change women’s lives differently. Paid work is seen to be one of the major resources for women’s empowerment and NGO membership is one of the factors encouraging women’s...

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Main Author:	Khatun, Sufia
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	en_US
Published:	BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD) 2022
Subjects:	NGO membership Paid work Pathways Women’s life Women’s empowerment
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10361/15853

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spelling	10361-158532022-01-10T21:02:04Z Changes in women’s lives through paid work and NGO membership: Qualitative evidence from two villages in Bangladesh Khatun, Sufia NGO membership Paid work Pathways Women’s life Women’s empowerment Changing women’s lives through empowerment resources is important, but there are debates on how different resources of empowerment change women’s lives differently. Paid work is seen to be one of the major resources for women’s empowerment and NGO membership is one of the factors encouraging women’s self-employment. This paper is based on qualitative evidence from 25 in-depth case studies of women, conducted in two districts of Bangladesh. This paper provides evidence of the role of paid work and NGO membership in enabling women’s empowerment in their individual, family, and community life. It also examines how paid work and NGO membership together strengthens women’s self-confidence, self-worth, decision-making, financial control, mobility, and value at the individual level in the family and community. The paper tries to analyze the relative importance of paid work and NGO membership on different aspects of women’s empowerment. It also identifies some other factors influencing women’s empowerment. The paper concludes that while NGO membership, in conjunction with paid work, has a positive impact on women’s empowerment, on its own, it may not be an empowering resource in all aspects of women’s empowerment, for instance in terms of decision-making. Furthermore, norms play a role in mediating the impact of paid work and NGO membership in terms of the type of work women do, decision-making, value in the family and mobility. Additionally, other demographic characteristics, husband’s support and women’s own personality also play a role in women’s empowerment. 2022-01-10T05:56:52Z 2022-01-10T05:56:52Z 2019 2019-03 Working Paper http://hdl.handle.net/10361/15853 en_US https://bigd.bracu.ac.bd/publications/changes-in-womens-lives-through-paid-work-and-ngo-membership-qualitative-evidence-from-two-villages-in-bangladesh/ application/pdf BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD)
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spellingShingle	NGO membership Paid work Pathways Women’s life Women’s empowerment Khatun, Sufia Changes in women’s lives through paid work and NGO membership: Qualitative evidence from two villages in Bangladesh
description	Changing women’s lives through empowerment resources is important, but there are debates on how different resources of empowerment change women’s lives differently. Paid work is seen to be one of the major resources for women’s empowerment and NGO membership is one of the factors encouraging women’s self-employment. This paper is based on qualitative evidence from 25 in-depth case studies of women, conducted in two districts of Bangladesh. This paper provides evidence of the role of paid work and NGO membership in enabling women’s empowerment in their individual, family, and community life. It also examines how paid work and NGO membership together strengthens women’s self-confidence, self-worth, decision-making, financial control, mobility, and value at the individual level in the family and community. The paper tries to analyze the relative importance of paid work and NGO membership on different aspects of women’s empowerment. It also identifies some other factors influencing women’s empowerment. The paper concludes that while NGO membership, in conjunction with paid work, has a positive impact on women’s empowerment, on its own, it may not be an empowering resource in all aspects of women’s empowerment, for instance in terms of decision-making. Furthermore, norms play a role in mediating the impact of paid work and NGO membership in terms of the type of work women do, decision-making, value in the family and mobility. Additionally, other demographic characteristics, husband’s support and women’s own personality also play a role in women’s empowerment.
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title	Changes in women’s lives through paid work and NGO membership: Qualitative evidence from two villages in Bangladesh
title_short	Changes in women’s lives through paid work and NGO membership: Qualitative evidence from two villages in Bangladesh
title_full	Changes in women’s lives through paid work and NGO membership: Qualitative evidence from two villages in Bangladesh
title_fullStr	Changes in women’s lives through paid work and NGO membership: Qualitative evidence from two villages in Bangladesh
title_full_unstemmed	Changes in women’s lives through paid work and NGO membership: Qualitative evidence from two villages in Bangladesh
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Changes in women’s lives through paid work and NGO membership: Qualitative evidence from two villages in Bangladesh

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