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Short Summary
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| Title |
Gender Relations in Bangladesh: the Household
and Beyond. Dowry, Women’s Property Rights and Salish, a Literature
Review |
| Author |
Nazneen, S. |
| Publication
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December 2004 |
| Publisher |
CARE Bangladesh |
| Donor |
CARE Bangladesh |
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Short Summary |
This paper is a literature review of how gender
relations are constructed in Bangladesh and how women's agency or
power to take decisions and make choices is exercised within the rural
household, the more extended circle of family and friends and the
wider community. It also reviews the existing literature on institutional
arrangements - dowry, women's property rights, and salish (an informal,
traditional system of justice) - that continue to undermine women's
ability to gain greater agency over their lives. The aim of this comprehensive
review is to provide CARE Bangladesh with a sense of how it might
place women and girls at the centre of its development efforts. The
document covers, among other things, the extent to which women are
able to form relationships beyond the immediate household and the
support that these social networks offer, the nature and extent of
women's participation in the community and wider organisations, and
non-governmental organisations' (NGO) strategies for addressing dowry
and women's property rights. Summary adapted from the executive summary.
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