TY - JOUR
T1 - The determinants of women's empowerment in Bangladesh: the role of partner's attitude and participation in microcredit programmes
AU - Orso, Cristina Elisa
AU - Fabrizi, Enrico
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - This paper employs data from the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (2004) to explore
how women’s empowerment is related to partner’s attitudes, participation in microcredit programmes and a set of
other socio-economic factors. We use a structural equation model with categorical observed variables. We get that
participation in microcredit programmes has a positive impact on both the empowerment’s dimensions considered,
while partner’s attitudes effect is weaker, proving that gender community norms are likely to be rooted in
women’s minds regardless of the partners’ perceptions of women’s status.
AB - This paper employs data from the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (2004) to explore
how women’s empowerment is related to partner’s attitudes, participation in microcredit programmes and a set of
other socio-economic factors. We use a structural equation model with categorical observed variables. We get that
participation in microcredit programmes has a positive impact on both the empowerment’s dimensions considered,
while partner’s attitudes effect is weaker, proving that gender community norms are likely to be rooted in
women’s minds regardless of the partners’ perceptions of women’s status.
KW - women's empowerment, agency, latent variables, hierarchical Bayes, Markov Chain Monte Carlo
KW - women's empowerment, agency, latent variables, hierarchical Bayes, Markov Chain Monte Carlo
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10807/76047
U2 - 10.1080/00220388.2015.1107046
DO - 10.1080/00220388.2015.1107046
M3 - Article
SN - 0022-0388
VL - 52
SP - 895
EP - 912
JO - Journal of Development Studies
JF - Journal of Development Studies
ER -
