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Year:: 2021
Contributor:: Sraboni, Esha (Author)
Subject:: Bangladesh; Violence Against Women; Gender-based violence (GBV)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.26300/9sfd-ff25

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Abstract:: The UN’s sustainable development framework recognizes the importance of women mobilizing and making claims as citizens. While Bangladesh has made remarkable progress in gender equality initiatives in education and health, women’s grassroots political engagement remains low. I use survey data to examine whether participation in community-based groups influences Bangladeshi women’s capability to make claims on the state. I additionally examine whether their ability to effectively participate in decision-making within the household influences their capability to engage as political actors in the public sphere. I find that community-based group members are likelier to feel that they can voice their demands, highlighting the association between group-membership and the capability to make claims in the public sphere. My finding that women’s agency within the household matters for their agency in the public sphere points to the need to understand intrahousehold power dynamics when implementing policies that attempt to mobilize women as political actors.
Notes:: This research was supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Doctoral Research Improvement (DDRI) and its Division of Social and Economic Sciences (SES) Law And Social Sciences (LSS) Program Award Number 1921059; Presented at NGO CSW Forum 65 Parallel Event: Women’s Mobilization, Feminist Claim-Making and the Fight for Social Change Sponsoring Organization: Sociologists for Women in Society March 19, 2021

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Sraboni, Esha, "Abstract: Women Making Claims on the State: The Role of Community Based Groups in Rural Bangladesh" (2021). Project Archive for "Making Meaning of Gendered Violence and the Law: Global Discourses and Local Realities in Bangladesh”. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://doi.org/10.26300/9sfd-ff25

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Project Archive for "Making Meaning of Gendered Violence and the Law: Global Discourses and Local Realities in Bangladesh”

This collection contains publicly-available research and broader impacts-related materials created by Esha Sraboni (Brown University, Sociology) for the Doctoral Dissertation Research (DDRI) project "Making Meaning of Gendered Violence and the Law: Global Discourses and Local Realities in Bangladesh” funded by …
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Abstract: Women Making Claims on the State: The Role of Community Based Groups in Rural Bangladesh