Gender-Based Discrimination and Status of Women Empowerment – A Case Study in Rajharhat Area

Autor: Mst Tania Parveen, Srijita Ghosh, Asraful Alam
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Restaurant Business. 118:379-389
ISSN: 0097-8043
DOI: 10.26643/rb.v118i9.8358
Popis: Gender inequality means no equal opportunities and performance between men and women in the economic, social and political sphere and the main part includes combating domestic violence, empowering the low-income groups as well as rights for women. The focus of this study is to find out the level of gender inequality and women empowerment in society. The study is based on the terms of the evolutionary method of both qualitative and quantitative process. The functional methodology of the area has been prepared based on observation which is related to the equal opportunities and performance between men and women in different aspects. For the analysis of gender discrimination among the women, 95 respondents have been surveyed in Rajharhat area. From the above all the discussion it could be drawn that in this study, women are facing lots of discrimination in a different sphere like education, occupation etc. The result has shown here in different aspects are permission to go outside, use gunghut/ purdah, permission for further study and family accepted as a wife. 65.25 percentages of women get permission to go outside and 34.74 percentage women do not get permission to go outside. 44.21 percent of women use gunghat or purdah and 55.79 percent of women not use gunghat. 62.11 percent of women get permission for further study where 37.89 percent does not get permission for further study .69.47 percent women is accepted as a wife by a family member but 30.53 percent of women are not accepted as a wife by a family member because of conservative thoughts and traditional values. Above all description highly represent the gender discrimination among the women at all level.
Databáze: OpenAIRE