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Globalization and Its Impact on Women’s Empowerment in Bangladesh


Soma Dhar*

Department of Economics, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh.

*Correspondence: soma.chowdhury7@yahoo.com (Soma Dhar, PhD Student, Department of Economics, University of Chitta- gong, Bangladesh).

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ABSTRACT

This research aims to investigate the impact of globalization on women’s empowerment in Bangladesh. Like many other countries, Bangladesh also integrated with the rest of the world through globalization. Empirical studies on the impact of globalization on women’s empowerment in Bangladesh circumstances are rare. Many studies to date have adjudicated to review the positive and negative effects of globalization on women. The study highlights the impact of globalization on women’s empowerment in Bangladesh in three ways. Firstly, the study draws application to traverse the testimony of women's empowerment by examining the initiatives (National Women Development Policy) taken by the government to levitate the status of women in society through their participation in economic and social activities and discusses the limitations and pivotal suggestions for the policy. Secondly, the study explains the positive and negative effects of globalization on women’s lives in Bangladesh. And finally, for the quantitative analysis, the study shows different scatter plots to establish the relationship between globalization and women empowerment as the KOF Index and the GGG Index, and the SIGI Index using time series data for the period of (2007-2017). 

Keywords: Globalization, KOF Index, GGG Index, SIGI Index, and National Women Development Policy.

Citation: Dhar S. (2021). Globalization and its impact on women’s empowerment in Bangladesh. Can. J. Bus. Inf. Stud., 3(6), 137-153. https://doi.org/10.34104/cjbis.021.01370153


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