Browsing by Author "Nazneen, Sohela"
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Being new Poor in Bangladesh: Coping strategies, constraints, and trajectories
(Institute of Development Studies, 2024-02-28)Recent research on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic in Bangladesh reveals the struggles of millions who fell into poverty, unable to regain their pre-pandemic economic status. Drawing on qualitative panel data from 39 ... -
Domestic workers' agency against workplace sexual harassment: The role of social norms in Bangladesh
(Wiley, 2023-03-03)Summary Motivation There are 1.3 million domestic workers in Bangladesh; the precarious and private nature of domestic work makes them vulnerable to sexual harassment. Prevalent social norms that regulate sexuality and ... -
Gendered politics of inclusive development
(BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), 2014-05)Political settlement frameworks are gender blind. In this paper, we interrogate the nature of gendered political settlements through analyzing selected country cases studies of the gendered nature of political and policy-making ... -
Men’s perspectives on women’s empowerment and intimate partner violence in rural Bangladesh
(© 2017 Routledge, 6/9/2017)Intimate partner violence (IPV) may increase as women in patriarchal societies become empowered, implicitly or explicitly challenging prevailing gender norms. Prior evidence suggests an inverse U-shaped relationship between ... -
Mobilising for women's rights and the role of resources : synthesis report, Bangladesh
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Mobilizing support and negotiating change: women's organizations building constituencies in Bangladesh
(BRAC University, 2011-11)This paper describes and analyzes how three national level women’s organizations in Bangladesh mobilized support around a particular issue among their membership and allies. The paper uses social movement/resource mobilization ... -
National discourses on women's empowerment in Bangladesh: continuities and change
(BRAC University, 2011-07)As Bangladesh turns 40, improvements in women’s wellbeing and increased agency are claimed to be some of the most significant gains in the postindependence era. Various economic and social development indicators show that ... -
Positionality and transformative knowledge in conducting 'feminist' research on empowerment in Bangladesh
This article is based on the experiences and reflections of a group of researchers in Bangladesh (of which we were members) studying women's empowerment. We investigate the kinds of epistemological and ethical dilemmas ... -
Quiet revolution? Women’s collective empowerment and BRAC
(Taylor & Francis, 2023-03-15)BRAC’s focus on women and community organisations in the 1970s was lauded as bringing forth “a quiet revolution.” We explore the evolution of BRAC’s selected programs that built community forums and argue that while BRAC ... -
The State of Governance Bangladesh 2013
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Violence and the breakdown of the political settlement: An uncertain future for Bangladesh?
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-06-15)We explore the dynamics of the elite political settlement in Bangladesh after the democratic transition in 1991 and its impact on the elite interactions in the arena of competitive electoral democracy. We trace the history ... -
Women mobilizing: new forms and challenges
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Women's representation in the union parishad
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Women’s representation in the Union Parishad: Local Governance Program Sharique-III
(BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), 2016-07)There is a need for in-depth analysis of women’s experience in local government and their ability to exercise political agency (i.e., what women do, how they exercise power) to negotiate local level politics and various ...
