Indicators for Gender Equity: Taking measure of women's lives in rural Bangladesh

Author: Hussain T.M.

Source: Development, Volume 42, Number 2, June 1999 , pp. 97-99(3)

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Abstract:

Tarek Mahmud Hussain examines the change in women's status with greater access to education and credit resources through NGOs, using data from the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey conducted in 1993 by Mitra and Associates (Mitra et al., 1994) with 7564 rural Bangladeshi women. The study highlights the very important link between women's access to education and reproductive choice as well as the dialogue they have with their husbands and their authority over household expenditure.Development (1999) 42, 97–99. doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1110045

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.development.1110045

Affiliations: 1: 1World Health Organisation, Almaty, Kazakhstan

Publication date: 1999-06-01