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Work and Women's Empowerment: An Examination of South Asia

Chaney, Kathryn Elise
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1514051407055113

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2017, Master of Arts (MA), Wright State University, International and Comparative Politics.
"What contributes to the differences in women's economic empowerment?" To investigate this problem, a large N statistical analysis set up this comparative case study of Bangladesh and India that evaluates the relationship between women's access to employment in the formal labor market and women's access to ownership of accounts in banks and other financial institutions. The large N statistical analysis results illustrate a global pattern that the percentage of women working in the formal labor market is associated with a greater percentage of women having accounts in banks or other financial institutions. Neither Bangladesh nor India fit this pattern, and statistics from these two countries are very different, so the purpose of this comparison is to show why this is the case. Institutional and socio-cultural factors, including differences in each country's banking systems and how each country has developed over the years, explain the variances between Bangladesh and India.
December Green , Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Pramod Kantha, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Zdravka Todorova, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Laura Luehrmann, Ph.D. (Other)
133 p.
Comparative; Economics; Political Science; Regional Studies; South Asian Studies; Womens Studies
women; empowerment; work; formal labor market; informal labor market; accounts in banks or other financial institutions; South Asia; Bangladesh; India; ready-made garment industry

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  • Chaney, K. E. (2017). Work and Women's Empowerment: An Examination of South Asia [Master's thesis, Wright State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1514051407055113

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Chaney, Kathryn . Work and Women's Empowerment: An Examination of South Asia. 2017. Wright State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1514051407055113.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Chaney, Kathryn . "Work and Women's Empowerment: An Examination of South Asia." Master's thesis, Wright State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1514051407055113

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