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Women's Empowerment Across Generations in Bangladesh

Overview
Journal J Dev Stud
Date 2010 Sep 18
PMID 20847904
Citations 7
Authors
Sidney Ruth Schuler
Elisabeth Rottach
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Abstract

This study uses qualitative data to examine young women's relationships with their mothers and mothers-in-law to understand how these relationships foster empowerment in the younger generation or fail to do so. The data consist of ethnographic interviews with 20 triads of women-young married women, their mothers and their mothers-in-law. Findings show that the influence of empowerment across generations was greater in the sphere of economic empowerment and education than in relation to marriage and childbearing. The study illustrates how patriarchal institutions resistant to change can limit the effects of women's empowerment on the next generation.

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