Browsing by Author "Sultan, Maheen"
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Accessing the performance of GQAL in changing gender norms and behaviour
Mahmud, Simeen; Sultan, Maheen; Huq, Lopita (BRAC University, 2012-09) -
BRAC’s steadfast endeavour to break the gender divide
Sultan, Maheen (The Daily Star, 2021-04-02) -
Community health workers as agents of change: Negotiating pathways of empowerment
Mahmud, Simeen; Sultan, Maheen (BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), 2016-09)In Bangladesh, health and family planning programs were the first major employers of rural women in outside paid work. Thus, women community health workers became the pioneers in bringing rural women into outside formal ... -
Do poor people’s dreams ever come true? Educational Aspirations and Lived Realities in Urban Slums in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Sultan, Maheen; Saeger, Jennifer; Rashid, Sabina F.; Haque, Mohammed Ashraful; Khondaker, Sahida (Springer Link, 2022-02)Bangladesh has made progress in advancing adolescent girls’ education, but there remain substantial evidence gaps around age and gender differences in motivations, retention, and access to education for adolescents living ... -
Gender equitable policy reforms in Bangladesh: The role of informal networks and practices
Sultan, Maheen; Mahpara, Pragyna (Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre (ESID), 2020-09)The paper explores how power operates in a gendered manner and how informal processes shape possibilities for gender equity. It investigates how and why gender equality policies are formulated, when these may not be popular ... -
Intersecting barriers to adolescents’ educational access during COVID-19: Exploring the role of gender, disability and poverty
Jones, Nicola; Tapia, Ingrid Sanchez; Baird, Sarah; Guglielmi, Silvia; Oakley, Erin; Yadete, Workneh Abebe; Sultan, Maheen; Pincock, Kate (Elsevier, 2021-09)This article explores the social determinants of adolescents’ access to education during the COVID-19 pandemic in three diverse urban contexts in Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Jordan. It provides novel empirical data from the ... -
Mobilising for women's rights and the role of resources : synthesis report, Bangladesh
Nazneen, Sohela; Sultan, Maheen; Mukhopadhyay, Maitrayee (Pathways of Women’s Empowerment and BRAC University, 2011-02) -
Mobilizing support and negotiating change: women's organizations building constituencies in Bangladesh
Nazneen, Sohela; Sultan, Maheen (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
Hossain, Naomi; Nazneen, Sohela; Sultan, Maheen (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 ... -
Openings and resistances: Women in the Bangladesh Civil Service
Sultan, Maheen; Jahan, Ferdous (Routledge, 2016)Over the past decades, women’s labor force participation (LFP) rate has risen from 26.1 percent in 2002/2003 to 36 percent in 2010. While employment is an important aspect of women’s empowerment and of national development, ... -
Positionality and transformative knowledge in conducting 'feminist' research on empowerment in Bangladesh
Nazneen, Sohela; Sultan, MaheenThis 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 ... -
Women's representation in the union parishad
Sultan, Maheen; Hasan, Bayazid; Khondaker, Sahida Islam; Enam, Ahmed Asif; Mahmood, Towhid Iqram; Nazneen, Sohela (BRAC University, 2016-07) -
Women’s representation in the Union Parishad: Local Governance Program Sharique-III
Sultan, Maheen; Hasan, Md. Bayazid; Khondaker, Sahida Islam; Enam, Ahmed Asif; Mahmood, Towhid Iqram; Nazneen, Sohela (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 ...