The Poverty–Purdah Trap in Rural Bangladesh: Implications for Women's Roles in the Family

Sajeda Amin

Development and Change, 1997, vol. 28, issue 2, 213-233

Abstract: Trends in poverty, working through changing roles of women in income generation, have been advanced as one explanation of changing fertility in Bangladesh. This paper examines women's work patterns in two rural villages in northern Bangladesh and finds little evidence of increasing workforce participation, despite high contraceptive use rates. Observation of women's work patterns suggests that purdah, the practice of female seclusion, influences and conditions women's decisions regarding roles they assume, and remains a dominant influence in women's lives, showing little evidence of responsiveness to poverty.

Date: 1997
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