Since 1982, the Maternal and Child Health and Family Planning Extension Project in Bangladesh has compiled longitudinal panel data on rural women’s contact with household service providers who visit homes to discuss family planning and offer services to women on request. This study tests the hypothesis that home-based services reinforce customs of purdah (female seclusion) by sustaining the dep...

Data on female labour force participation in Bangladesh suggest that, despite the increase female-intensive employment opportunities through microfinance, export garment manufacturing, and community-based services, majority of working women are concentrated home-based activities. There have been various attempts to explain this, with some focusing economic explanations which stress women’s educ...

Women have higher social, economic, political, and overall status than they had in ancient times the Middle Ages. They were perceived as only way to satiate men’s physical cravings ensure their progeny. In social sphere, observed purdah, never permitted choose partners, limited freedom for education. completely denied access education; husbands given of god women; polygyny was accepted; women p...

Going to School in Purdah: Female Schooling, Mobility Norms and Madrasas in Bangladesh This paper looks at the determinants of secondary school attendance in Bangladesh with a focus on the interaction between community gender norms and relative supply of madrasas (i.e. Islamic schools). We present a theoretical framework where the probability of children's school participation varies with respe...

The issue of hijab has become a controversial and ongoing topic discussed mainly in European countries been perceived differently by the media. discourse its controversy, particularly France, Netherland, Germany, as well United Kingdom, not interpreted media according to Islamic perspective, thereby implicitly creating tension between Muslims local society. Hence, objective this study is examin...