Not just a tick box: NGOs should look beyond women’s employment and address household power dynamics

Women-centric interventions have been a dominant feature of the global development agenda for more than two decades now. In response, NGO projects in Bangladesh have done a great deal to advance higher education for girls and help women to develop employable skills. However, drawing on personal expe...

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1. Verfasser:	Rahman, Tasmiah
Format:	Web Resource
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	HB Economic Theory HQ The family. Marriage. Woman JC Political theory JQ Political institutions Asia, Africa, Australia, Pacific
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Zusammenfassung:	Women-centric interventions have been a dominant feature of the global development agenda for more than two decades now. In response, NGO projects in Bangladesh have done a great deal to advance higher education for girls and help women to develop employable skills. However, drawing on personal experience of evaluating NGO projects Tasmiah T. Rahman argues that women’s empowerment and participation in the workforce remains limited by the patriarchal mind-set.