The Complexity of Measuring Women Empowerment and its Role in Nutritional Status of Bangladeshi Children

Rana Ejaz Ali Khan, Muhammad Ali Raza () and Toseef Azid

Chapter 22 in Economic Empowerment of Women in the Islamic World:Theory and Practice, 2020, pp 469-489 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: Measuring the woman empowerment and its impact on various aspects of woman and child welfare is still an enigma. The same measures of woman empowerment may be utilized for analyzing its role in different aspects of welfare of household members. This is the reason that a number of studies have shown no significant effect of woman empowerment on household welfare. This chapter has discussed different measures of woman empowerment and has attempted to see the impact of woman empowerment measured by an index on nutritional status of children in Bangladesh. The Composite Index of Anthropometric Failure (CIAF) has been calculated from Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey 2007 (BDHS). The Binary logistic regression results have illustrated that the woman empowerment has no significant effect on child’s nutritional status. It may be conferred that measure of woman empowerment has some flaws. The other explanatory variables like child’s birth order and age, duration of breastfeeding, mother’s education, mother’s BMI, incidence of Diarrhea and fever, household wealth and number of children (5 or under 5 years) in the household have shown significant impact on nutritional status of children. For women empowerment a revised set of indicators related with child’s nutritional status (similarly other areas of woman and child welfare) is required, which may reveal its impact on nutritional status of children (and other areas of woman and child welfare).

Keywords: Islam; Gender Studies; Women Studies; Quran; Sunnah; Female Empowerment; Shariah; Prophet Muhammad; Business in Islam; Patriarchal Fundamentalism; Secular Feminism; Women's Rights; Human Rights; Aceh; Gender Empowerment Measure; Globalization; Press Freedom; Organisation of Islamic Cooperation; Education; Arab World; Nanofinance; Microfinance; Labour; Ottoman Empire; Iran; Waqaf; Waqf; Malaysia; Pakistan; Singapore; Dual-Income Households; Bangladesh; Food Security; Human Capital; Saudi Arabia; Turkey (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A13 A14 J16 O1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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