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Economic Contribution of Rural Women and Their Participation in the Household Decision Making Process in Bangladesh

Asma Begum
Lecturer
Lecturer, Department of Rural Sociology, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh.

Krishna Chakrabortty
Reader,
Reader, Department of Sociology, University of Calcutta, West Bengal

Abstract/ Executive Summary:

The present micro-study is concerned with an important aspect of the relation between the poor rural women and the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh. This aspect refers to the status of poor women in the countryside in Bangladesh, after they started getting a modicum of income from economic activities aided by the credit from the Grameen Bank. More specifically, this study presents the data regarding the association between the economic activity independently carried out with the credit received from the Grameen Bank by the women of two villages, viz., Bhatpara and Panchdona, in Narsingdi district of Bangladesh, and differences, if any, in the status of the loanee and the non loanee women.

Keywords: Economic contribution, Rural women,Household decision making

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Program Area: Socio-economic and Policy

Non-commodity: Income generation

Objectives:

To ascertain the status of women in contemporary rural Bangladesh in relation to development schemes initiated by Grameen Bank.

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Research Design: The design of the study is descriptive in nature. That is, the primary purpose of this inquiry is to describe a specific situation, namely, whether and how far a woman's status is related to her contribution to the subsistence of her family. As necessitated in this study design, what is called for here is looking at descriptive patterns only, that is, what it is. Scientific observation being careful and deliberate, scientific descriptions are typically more accurate and precise than casual, haphazard descriptions. However, neither this research design demands, nor has the present researcher proposed testing of any casual relationship among variables or introduction of any "elaboration model" (Babbie, 1992, p. 91) in data analysis. The application of the elaboration model (the name is associated with a logical model used in the analysis of multivariate relationships in social research and it involves the introduction of a control variable as a mechanism for understanding a relationship discovered between two other variables), has not therefore, been necessary here (Babbie, 1992, p. 410). What the researcher has tried to see here is whether the loanee group of women enjoy any better status (relating to their participation in the family decision making process) vis-a-vis their non-loanee counterparts. Of course, if any such association (between the women's economic contribution to the family's subsistence and their greater participation in the family decision-making process) is found, efforts have been made to interpret such association and find the probable rationale behind the same. Also, while interpreting data, attempt has been made to compare the findings of this inquiry with what other researchers have found in comparable situations. The study, however, never planned to test any hypothesis stating that the economic contribution of women leads to the enhancement of their status. The study does not propose to identify the necessary or sufficient conditions behind any probable enhancement of the women's status. So multivariate analysis of data, which involves measuring the effects of intervening variables on any association between the dependent and independent variables is not called for by the research objective and design of the present inquiry.

Source of Information: Bangladesh J. Agric. Econs. XVIII, 1(1995) : 51-69

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This study presents the data regarding the association between the economic activity independently carried out with the credit received from the Grameen Bank by the women of two villages, viz., Bhatpara and Panchdona, in Narsingdi district of Bangladesh, and differences, if any, in the status of the loanee and the non loanee women.

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